Baedeker Guides are travel guide books published by the Karl Baedeker firm of Germany beginning in the 1830s. Die Schweiz. Handbuch für Reisende, nach...
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Karl Baedeker, founded by Karl Baedeker on 1 July 1827, is a German publisher and pioneer in the business of worldwide travel guides. The guides, often...
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him." Baedeker lies buried at the main cemetery (Hauptfriedhof) in Koblenz. Baedeker List of Baedeker Guides Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baedeker, Karl" ...
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"experimental" red guide. He also decided to call his travel guides "handbooks", following the example of John Murray III. Baedeker's early guides had tan covers...
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recruited a team of anonymous inspectors to visit and review restaurants. Following the usage of the Murray's and Baedeker guides, the guide began to award...
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under the names Blue Guides and Guides Bleus, respectively. Hachette’s existing Guides Joannes had blue covers, while Baedeker’s guides had red covers. The...
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style of Baedeker?) His Lake District volume continued in revised editions into the late 1960s W. A. Poucher developed the photographic guide to upland...
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competitor Baedeker Guides. Contributors included David T. Ansted, Charles Bertram Black, and A.R. Hope Moncrieff. Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball (1907), Cairo of To-Day...
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series directed by Connelly and Dominic Brigstocke. Writers are listed as per credits of each episode. Original music was—except where noted—written by...
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Pyramidenkogel (category Mountains of the Alps)
Baedeker's 1879 The Eastern Alps. Another mountain named Pyramidenkogel can be found in Austrian Totes Gebirge mountain range. Located south-east of the...
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Glacier Montanvert (category Glaciers of Metropolitan France)
tourist destination of European travellers and is referenced in numerous travel writings and novels of the time. Travel writer Karl Baedeker includes Montanvert...
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Sanday: Collins illustrated guide to the Kathmandu valley. The Guidebook Company, Landon 1989, ISBN 0-00215-215-0. Baedeker Allianz Reiseführer Nepal....
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Madeleine; Sorges, Jürgen (March 12, 2012). Cape Town Garden Route Baedeker Guide. Marco Polo Travel Publishing. pp. 52–53. ISBN 978-3-8297-6618-0. "Toxicology...
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Biyadhoo (category Islands of the Maldives)
Resorts of Maldives. Arvinder Kumar. Page 23. (in German) Gstaltmayr, Heiner F. and Hšhne Wieland (2014). Baedeker Reisefÿhrer Malediven. Baedeker. Page...
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The Circus, Bath (category Grade I listed buildings in Bath, Somerset)
and his family in the first half of the 19th century. During the Bath Blitz of 25/26 April 1942, one of the Baedeker Blitz retaliatory raids on England...
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such as that in the Baedeker Travel Guide (1902) had not been followed consistently A Topographical Catalogue of the Private Tombs of Thebes B. Bruyère...
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Written in the past tense, the book's stated purpose is to serve as a Baedeker travel guide for an alien civilization that discovers Earth after humanity has...
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Aphrodisiac (redirect from List of aphrodisiac foods and herbs)
sexuality was barely acknowledged in the West, the manuscript, a kind of Baedeker to orgasm, offered tips for maximizing sexual pleasure on both sides...
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Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe (category Lists of French military personnel)
"History of the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile". Frenchempire.net. Retrieved August 13, 2021. Baedeker, Karl (1860). Guide à Paris par Baedeker: Arc de Triomphe...
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Vindobona (category Military history of Vienna)
of the ancient relief of downtown Vienna (in German) Southern Germany and Austria, Including the Eastern Alps: Handbook for Travellers. Karl Baedeker...
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Boulevard du Jardin botanique (category City of Brussels)
(1894). Belgium: with part of Holland, North France, the Rhine and the Moselle. United Kingdom: Adam & Charles Black. Baedeker, K. (1894). Belgique et Hollande...
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Bradt City Guide. Bradt Travel Guides. ISBN 978-1-84162-133-3. Baedeker, Karl; Baedeker (Firm), Karl (1894). Northern France, from Belgium and the English...
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Retrieved May 14, 2024. Baedeker, Karl (1893). Italy: Handbook for Travellers: Second Part, Central Italy and Rome. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. p. XIX. Archived...
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1983, the New York Times called High Output Management "an organizational Baedeker for managers at all levels," and the Washington Post described it as "interesting...
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Travellers and then the Baedeker Guides (starting in 1844) borrowed this system, using stars instead of exclamation points, first for points of interest and later...
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Tanta (redirect from History of Tanta)
(13 February 2016). "A Glimpse of Tanta, Egypt's "Boss Town"". Egyptian Streets. Retrieved 17 November 2016. Karl, Baedeker (1885). Egypt: Handbook for Travellers :...
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La Tour d'Argent (category Buildings and structures in the 5th arrondissement of Paris)
hairdresser and wood dealer number 17. Baedeker's 1860 guide to Paris describes the establishment's current location as "out of the way", while mentioning a restaurant...
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262. ISBN 978-88-365-0350-6. GŠrtner, Otto (2013). Sizilien (in German). Baedeker. p. 173. ISBN 978-3-8297-1456-3. Valdes, Giuliano (1 May 2000). Sicilia...
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Left- and right-hand traffic (redirect from List of countries that drive on the left)
handedness of traffic, and the 1903 Baedeker guide reported that the rule of the road varied by region. For example, in Northern Italy, the provinces of Brescia...
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pp. 138–141. The Times Atlas of the World, 13th ed. (2011) "batsav | caucasian extracts from the 1914 baedeker guide to russia". www.batsav.com. Retrieved...
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