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Europe For Dummies by Donald Olson

For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommer's.

Small trim size for use on-the-go
Focused coverage of only the best hotels and restaurants in all price ranges

The fun and easy way to explore Europe

From great museums and historic sights to fabulous food and trendsetting styles, Europe has it all. Get the lowdown on everything from passports to palaces, culture to nightlife, and cathedrals to cuisine. With mini-guides to fifteen of Europe's most popular cities and surrounding areas in eleven different countries, this book is your ticket to an exciting European adventure.

Open the book and find:

Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
What you shouldn't miss -and what you can skip
The best hotels and restaurants for every budget
Lots of detailed maps

About Donald Olson

Donald Olson (Chapter 1 11 and 15) is a novelist,playwright, and travel writer. His newest novel, Confessions ofa Pregnant Princess, was published in 2005 under the pen nameSwan Adamson. His travel stories have appeared in The New YorkTimes, Travel & Leisure, Sunset, National Geographic books,and many other publications. His guidebooks London For Dummies,Frommer s Best Day Trips from London, Frommer sIrreverent London, Germany For Dummies, and Frommer sVancouver & Victoria are all published by Wiley. He alsowrites England For Dummies, which won a 2002 Lowell ThomasTravel Writing Award for best guidebook. Liz Albertson (Chapter 12) worked as an editor forFrommer s Travel Guides for four years before making the leapto the other side of the computer as the author of Ireland ForDummies. When she isn t researching and writing, Lizspends much of her time in Ireland sitting in on traditional musicsessions, fiddle in hand. She currently teaches fifth and sixthgrade in New Haven, Connecticut. Joseph Alexiou (Chapter 13) works as a freelancejournalist and has contributed to France For Dummies andEurope For Dummies. His work has appeared in the New YorkPress, the New York Observer, and Newsday. Helives in Brooklyn and is currently pursuing an M.S. at the ColumbiaUniversity Graduate School of Journalism. George McDonald (Chapter 14) is a former deputy editor ofand currently contributing writer for Holland Herald, thein-flight magazine for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. He has writtenextensively about Amsterdam and the Netherlands for internationalmagazines and travel books such as Frommer s Belgium,Holland & Luxembourg and Frommer s Europe. Maggie Childs (Chapter 16) is a journalist and travelwriter for publications such as Conde Nast Traveller, TheVienna Review, Gig magazine, and various in-flight magazines.She has lived in Vienna for 14 years and also works for the Viennabureau of the Associated Press. She is the coauthor ofFrommer s Austria and Frommer s Vienna &the Danube Valley. Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince (Chapter 17)have written numerous best-selling Frommer s guides and areco-authors of Frommer s Europe. Porter is a formerbureau chief for the Miami Herald, and Prince, who beganwriting with Porter in 1982, worked for the Paris bureau of theNew York Times. Mark Baker (Chapter 18) is a long-time American expat wholives in Prague. He s one of the original editors of ThePrague Post and was for years a correspondent and editor forRadio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, based in Prague. He s now afreelance writer and reporter. He s the author ofFrommer s Prague Day by Day, and co-author ofFrommer s Eastern Europe and Frommer sPoland. Bruce Murphy and Alessandra de Rosa (Chapters19 21) are part-time residents of Rome. Murphy s workhas appeared in magazines ranging from Cruising World toCritical Inquiry. An avid traveler since her firstcross-Europe trip at the age of 2, de Rosa was born in Rome and haslived and worked in Rome, Paris, and New York City. They are theauthors of Italy For Dummies and Rome ForDummies. Neil E. Schlecht (Chapters 22 and 23) is a writer,photographer, and cycling aficionado who has lived in Spain,Brazil, and Ecuador. He has worked in Spain as an English teacher,as a consultant on social and economic development projects for theEuropean Union, and as a contributing writer for a Spanish art andantiques magazine. He is the author of more than a dozen travelguides, including Barcelona Day by Day, Mallorca & MenorcaDay by Day, and Frommer s Peru. Vancouver-born Tania Kollias (Chapter 24) longed totravel since a teen trip to England to meet the relatives, and useda Frommer s guide for her first solo journey to Europe. Adegree, four continents, and many journals later, she now lives inher father s native Athens, Greece, where she wrote thecountry s first comprehensive listings book for expats,edited the Now in Athens monthly for the 2004 Olympics, andstill works as a journalist and writer. She travels in and out ofGreece whenever she gets the chance.

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GOR008317198

ISBN 13

9780470881491

ISBN 10

0470881496

Title

Europe For Dummies by Donald Olson

Author

Donald Olson

Series

Dummies Travel

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Year published

20110121

Number of pages

648

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Europe For Dummies Donald Olson

Europe For Dummies by Donald Olson

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Europe For Dummies by Donald Olson

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