Shanghai: (Lonely Planet Encounter)

Features adventures for travellers. This book tells you the how, why and when to plan your adventure. It features maps and safety advice.

Discover the story of the original 'sweetheart', John Balliol, whose embalmed heart is buried beside his devoted wife, Devorgilla at Sweetheart Abbey in Kirkcudbrightshire. This work takes the reader on a journey around Scotland. It offers stories, firsts, birthplaces, legends and inventions that shape the country's rich and majestic history.

Australia's bestselling guide to Australia. Refocussed on the needs of budget and midrange travellers.

Provides information on travel experiences. This book offers suggestions for the places to stay.

Written by three New Yorkers with opinionated takes on the city they love, this guide will help visitors navigate their way like a local. It includes expanded coverage of midtown Manhattan, the East Village, Harlem, and Brooklyn and boasts a four-color, waterproof pull-out map of the city.

Provides a full-colour introduction to Australia, with 'what not to miss', from travelling the magnificent great ocean road to catching the Manly ferry across Sydney harbour. This guide contains chapters arranged by region that provide detailed coverage of all the attractions, from glamorous Sydney to the rugged grandeur of the Red Centre.

Featuring contributions by Kiwi food experts, historians, and musicians, this guide contains loads of information on New Zealand's thriving organic establishments and Maori community-based tourism operators. Expanded chapters on outdoor activities and Maori culture.

With more than 50 walks around Great Britain and Ireland, this practical guidebook features a variety of town and rural routes that are designed to suit both experienced walkers and those who fancy nothing an afternoon stroll. It highlights points of interest along the route: historic sites and buildings and topographical features, and wildlife.

A guidebook to New Zealand with practical information, a introduction and hundreds of restaurant and hotel listings. It covers craggy coastlines and sweeping beaches, to the bubbling volcanic mud pools and fast-flowing rivers.

Includes an Environment & Natural Wonders chapter in colour, a dedicated chapter on practical ways to travel responsibly and sustainably, and snapshot of Bangkok life written by a Bangkok resident that gives the lowdown on contemporary issues in Thailand.