Tag Archives: Travel Guidebooks

You Too Can Be A Londoner

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Carl Goes London is a new flavor in travel guidebooks; it offers a useful perspective for visitors whether they are in London for three days, three weeks or three months. Written with the digital nomad in mind, the book provides … Continue reading →

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Guide to Tokyo

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Regular readers of TBTP have probably noticed that I have a fascination with travel guidebooks, both contemporary and antiquarian. If you saw my library, you might even call it an obsession. I’m always intrigued when I stumble upon a novel … Continue reading →

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Driving While Black

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

Between 1936 and 1966, an unconventional travel guidebook series was published specifically for African-American motorists. The Negro Travelers’ Green Book was sadly necessary to provide Black motorists and travelers with scrupulously accurate information on accommodations, restaurants and auto services during … Continue reading →

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A Travel Guide With Heart

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

The popular French travel guide publisher Le Guide du Routard has created a wonderful new 90 page graphic guidebook for migrants and refugees in Europe. Titled Hello, and illustrated by French artist Pascal Gauffre, the handbook allows communication by simply … Continue reading →

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Seventy-one Square Miles Seeded With Hustle

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

The just launched Brooklyn from the Wildsam Field Guide Series describes the New York Borough as “…seventy-one square miles seeded with hustle and grit and leaps of faith”. As the product of more than a century of Brooklynites on both … Continue reading →

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A Portrait of the City (a little delayed)

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Brian D. Butler

Regular visitors to TBTP know that I’m inordinately fond of  old travel guidebooks, whimsical book illustrations and tales of eastern European intrigue. Of course I couldn’t pass-up a crazy story that I ran across the other day that has all … Continue reading →

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