Cologne - Marco Polo Pocket Travel Guide

Author: Marco Polo Travel Publishing
Publisher: Marco Polo Travel Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9783829757546
Category : Cologne (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Marco Polo Pocket Guide Cologne: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips Explore Cologne with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the city's trendiest places, and get tips on shopping and what to do on a limited budget. There are plenty of ideas for travel with kids, and a summary of all the festivals and events that take place. Let Marco Polo show you all this historic city has to offer... This glorious cathedral city is a metropolis brimming with history and culture, as well as a modern multicultural haven overflowing with creative talent. From historically significant churches, world-renowned museums and architectural masterpieces to modern shopping centres and highly convivial breweries, let Marco Polo show you the best Cologne has to offer. ... This is Cologne! Your Marco Polo Cologne Pocket Guide includes: Insider Tips - we show you the hidden gems and little-known secrets that offer a real insight into the city. Discover the creative heart of Cologne in Ehrenfeld, stay in a Victorian villa or enjoy classic Rhenish cuisine in a historic, wood-panelled building. Best of - find the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' Cologne experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax and spoil yourself. Sightseeing - all of the top sights are organised by areas of the city so you can easily plan your day. Discovery Tours - 4 specially tailored tours will get you to the heart of Cologne. Discover and experience all the delights defining Cologne, from its historic Cathedral to its artistic quarter. Cologne in full-colour - Marco Polo Pocket Guide Cologne includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the city to life offering you a real taste of what you can see and enjoy on your trip. Touring App - download any of the Discovery Tours to your smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. Enjoy stress-free sightseeing and never get lost again! Street Atlas and pull-out map - we've included a detailed street atlas and a handy, pull-out map so you can pop the guide in your bag for a full-on sightseeing day or head out with just the map to enjoy your Discovery Tour. Useful German phrases - the essential words and phrases are included to help you get by. Trust Marco Polo Pocket Guide Cologne to show you around this fascinating city. The comprehensive coverage and unique insights will ensure you experience everything Cologne has to offer and more. The special tips, personal insights and unusual experiences will help you make the most of your trip - just arrive and enjoy.

Cologne Marco Polo Pocket Guide

Author: MARCO. POLO
Publisher: Marco Polo Travel Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781914515828
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Let Marco Polo Cologne guide you around this historic city. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants and ideas for travel with kids with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Let Marco Polo show you all this wonderful city has to offer.

The Cambridge History of Travel Writing

Author: Nandini Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110861681X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.

The Venice Variations

Author: Sophia Psarra
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352390
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.

HyperCities

Author: Todd Samuel Presner
Publisher: metaLABprojects
ISBN: 9780674725348
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
More than a physical space, a hypercity is a real city overlaid with information networks that document the past, catalyze the present, and project future possibilities. Hypercities are always under construction. HyperCities puts digital humanities theory into practice to chart the proliferating cultural records of places around the world.

The Travels of Marco Polo - Volume 1

Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781981255689
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788

Book Description
Marco Polo almost the first European man to reach the wonderful world of East Asia. The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo when they where emprisoned together in Genoa, describing Polo's travels through Asia, Persia, China, and Indonesia between 1276 and 1291 and his experiences became at the court of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan.

From Pole to Pole

Author: Sven Anders Hedin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description

The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East

Author: Marco Polo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 812

Book Description

A Confederacy of Dunces

Author: John Kennedy Toole
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802197620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

The Darkest Minds

Author: Alexandra Bracken
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1423179188
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 535

Book Description
Book one in the hit series that's soon to be a major motion picture starring Amandla Stenberg and Mandy Moore--now with a stunning new look and an exclusive bonus short story featuring Liam and his brother, Cole. When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that killed most of America's children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control. Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones. But when the truth about Ruby's abilities--the truth she's hidden from everyone, even the camp authorities--comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. On the run, she joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp: Zu, a young girl haunted by her past; Chubs, a standoffish brainiac; and Liam, their fearless leader, who is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can't risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents. While they journey to find the one safe haven left for kids like them--East River--they must evade their determined pursuers, including an organization that will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. But as they get closer to grasping the things they've dreamed of, Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.