Product Description: With stunning scenery, colonial remnants, fascinating ruins and exotic food, Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos offer unrivalled attractions. Footprint’s 5th edition Handbook will guide you from the vivid rice paddies of Vietnam to the glittering palaces of Cambodia via picturesque, laid-back Laos...read more

Product Description: Vietnam’s allure lies in its ripples of vibrant green paddy fields, historic temples, and herb-infused cuisine. Footprint’s 7th edition Vietnam Handbook will guide you from the elegant, belle-époque boulevards of Hanoi to the frenetic motorcycle hum of Ho Chi Minh City...read more

Product Description: Laos satisfies all the romantic images of southeast Asia: perfumed frangipani trees, saffron-robed monks, rusty old bicycles and golden temples. Footprint’s 7th edition Laos Handbook will guide you from traditionally constructed villages and verdant countryside to the charming colonial city of Vientiane...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive and generously illustrated guide explores the beguiling buildings of the Isle of Wight. The island’s many towns, villages, and resorts are included in a detailed gazetteer, as are the charming villas and cottages ornes dotted around the spectacular coasts...read more

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Product Description: In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this ‘battlefield tourism' is chronicled in this absorbing and original book, which shows how the phenomenon served to construct memory in Britain, as well as in Australia and Canada...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this 'battlefield tourism' is chronicled in this absorbing and original book, which shows how the phenomenon served to construct memory in Britain, as well as in Australia and Canada...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An account of the evolution of English towns, this book investigates medieval street plans and houses, and looks at the powerful influence which medieval churches had on their towns. It charts the dramatic impact of the Industrial Revolution, and the development of Georgian London and of country towns...read more

Product Description: Surveys the development of English towns from the time of the Romans to the beginning of the 20th century. The book covers all parts of the country and focuses on significant details in streets and buildings, explaining them in terms of the town's social and economic development...read more

A bilingual dictionary containing 230,000 references covers basic vocabulary as well as slang, American English, and Latin American Spanish

Product Description: The author takes the reader on a guided walk through the East Anglian towns, showing in detail the way the town's plan evolved and how its streets, market places, public buildings, churches, shops, houses and factories came to be where they are...read more

Looks at how English towns have evolved through Roman, Saxon, Medieval, Georgian, and Victorian times, and discusses developments in town planning