Travel Titles, January—July 2006: Jones Books to White Star

Compiled by Robert Dahlin and Charles Hix -- Publishers Weekly, 1/30/2006

JONES BOOKS
Wisconsin’s capital city holds few secrets after Gwen Evans scours it for Madison: The Guide (Apr., $13.95).

KNOPF
April brings showers and five new Knopf MapGuides at $9.95 each: Beijing,Edinburgh,Rio de Janeiro,Warsawand Washington, D.C.Each has fold-out, full-color maps as well as tips on the best places to stay, the most photogenic sites to satisfy a digital camera and the finest restaurants to frequent.

KODANSHA
Kaori Shoji showcases the city beneath its flashy façade in Seeing Tokyo (Mar., $35 cloth). Similarly, photos and text uncover the elegance of a city once inhabited by aristocrats and the samurai in Seeing Kyoto (Jan., $35 cloth) by Juliet Winters Carpenter.

LAKECLAREMONT PRESS
The International Gay Games will be held in Chicago this year, not to mention the Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade, which itself draws more than 400,000 participants and spectators. Consequently, there should be a sizable market for A Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago (Mar., $15.95) by Kathie Bergquist and Robert McDonald.

HUGH LAUTER LEVIN
More than 150 images bring to life Spectacular Scotland (Apr., $50 cloth) by James Gracie. Spectacular Chicago(Apr., $50 cloth) by Thomas B. Allen boasts more than 200 contemporary photographs and over 36 pages of panoramic fold-outs.

THE LITTLE BOOKROOM
Timed for the 2006 Winter Olympics, A Civilized Traveller’s Guide to Turin (Jan., $14.95) by Eugenia F. Bell unveils well-known attractions and those familiar mostly to natives. Beth Elon tracks down local dishes in A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring and Eating Off the Beaten Track (May, $24.95). Rarely documented Parisian addresses crop up in Literary Paris: A Guide (June, $19.95) by Jessica Powell.

LONELY PLANET
Venturing well off the beaten track, Going Bush: Adventures Across Indigenous Australia (Mar., $19.99) by Monique Choy et al. heads far into the outback. Travel experiences that protect and preserve the ecological and cultural environment are outlined by Kerry Lorimer in Code Green: Trips of a Lifetime That Won’t Cost the Earth (Apr., $19.99). June presents one book for the city traveler and another for the fan of animals: Urban Photography: A Guide to Taking Better Pictures by Richard I’Anson and Wildlife Photography… ($16.99 each) by Andy Rouse. Lonely Planet also lists a host of first editions for varied destinations. Western Balkans (Feb., $22.99) visits Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Bosnia, Hercegovina, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. New to the Best of series are Best of Buenos Aires (Feb., $14.99); …Dubai (Feb., $14.99); …Marrakesh (Feb., $14.99); …Mumbai (Feb., $14.99); …Shanghai (Feb., $14.99); …Lisbon (May, $14.99); …Valencia (May, $14.99); …Belgrade (June, $12.99); …Dubrovnik (June, $12.99); …Krakow (June, $12.99); …Ljubljana (June, $12.99); …Reykjavik (June, $12.99); and …Tallin (June, $12.99). Fifty-five other guides are being issued in updated editions.

MORRIS COMMUNICATIONS
How time flies. The 2006 edition of The Milepost: Food, gas, lodging, camping, fishing, sightseeing and road conditions along the highways and byways of Alaska, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories and major acccess routes in Alberta and British Columbia (Mar., $26.95), edited by Kris Valencia, is the 58th annual edition.

MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS
Tie on the walking boots for Best Short Hikes in Arizona (Jan., $15.95) by Don and Barbara Laine; Best Loop Hikes: Colorado (Apr., $16.95) by Steve Johnson and David Weinstein; Best Loop Hikes: New Hampshire’s White Mountains to the Maine Coast (Apr., $16.95) by Jeff Romano; and Best Hikes with Kids: Western Washington and the Cascades (May, $18.95) by Joan Burton. Rather more demanding are Weekend Rock: Washington (Feb., $19.95) by David Whitelaw; Olympic Mountains: A Climbing Guide (Apr., $19.95) by Olympic Mountain Rescue; The Colorado Trail: The Official Guidebook (Apr., $22.95) by The Colorado Trail Foundation; and Kyrgyzstan: A Climber’s Map & Guide (Mar., $12) by Martin Gamache and Garth Willis. Watery guides include Waterfall Lover’s Guide to Northern California: More Than 300 Waterfalls from the North Coast to the Southern Sierra (Mar., $16.95) by Matt and Krissi Danielsson; Northern Forest Canoe Trail Map, Upper Missiquoi Valley: Vermont/Quebec, Missiquoi River to Lake Memphremagog (Trail Section 5) (Apr.); and Northern Forest Canoe Trail Map, Greater Jackman: Maine, Spencer Stream to Moosehead Lake (Apr., $9.95 each); 151 Dives in the Protected Waters of Washington State and British Columbia (May, $29.95) by Betty Pratt-Johnson; Afoot & Afloat: South Puget Sound (May) and …North Puget Sound (May, $16.95 each) by Marge and Ted Mueller. Rounding out the spring list are An Outdoor Family Guide to Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks (Mar., $15.95) by Lisa Gollin Evans; Rocky Mountain Flora: A Colorado Mountain Club Field Guide (May, $22.95) by James Ellis; and The Colorado 14ers: A ColoradoMountain Club Pack Guide (May, $9.95) by The Colorado Mountain Club Foundation.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOKS
Forthcoming titles in the National Geographic Directions series are Imagined London (Jan.) by Anna Quindlen and Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (June, $10.95 each) by Louise Erdrich. The Ten Best of Everything: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers (Mar., $19.95) by Nathaniel Lande and Andrew Lande lists plenty of food for thought. Yosemite National Park Road Guide (Apr., $8.95) by Thomas Schmidt should prevent anyone from getting lost. New entries in the National Geographic Traveler series are Alaska(Apr.) by Bob Devine and Madrid(Apr., $22.95 each) by Annie Bennett. Revised editions in the series include Florence & Tuscany (Feb., $25.95) by Tim Jepson; Mexico(Feb., $27.95) by Jane Onstott; Thailand(Feb., $25.95) by Phil Macdonald and Carl Parkes; Barcelona(Mar., $22.95) by Damien Simonis; Costa Rica(Mar., $22.95) by Christopher Baker; Hong Kong(Mar., $22.95) by Phil Macdonald; and New York(Mar., $22.95) by Michael S. Durham. Also updated is National Geographic Guide to the National Parks (Feb., $25).

NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS
Patrick Leigh Fermor ushers his readers into the Greek interior and elsewhere with Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (June, $15.95) and Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (June, $14.95).

NORTH POINT PRESS
Lawrence Osborne decided to find out what tourists look for as they travel the world, and his own journey into the desires of the western mind results in The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall (June, $24 cloth).

NORTON
New to the Blue Guide series is The Marche (July, $26.95) by Ellen Grady. Revised and updated Blue Guides are Rome(Apr., $28.95) by Alta Macadam; Southwest France (May, $28.95) by Delia Gray-Durant; Greece: The Mainland (July, $32.95) by Sherry Marker; and James Pettifer and Sicily(July, $26.95) by Ellen Grady.

PERENNIAL
Cultural history provides the map in We’ll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light (Mar., $13.95) by John Baxter.

PINEAPPLE PRESS
Recent and historical photos are included in Coastal South Carolina: Welcome to the Lowcountry (Apr., $12.95) by Terrance Zepke.

PULSE GUIDES
Aimed at the sophisticated traveler, the Night+Day series gives equal billing for daytime and nighttime activities and tells when to be at each site for best results. The newest titles are Night+Day San Francisco (Mar.), …New York (Apr.), …Athens (Apr.), …Paris (Apr.), …London (May), …Amsterdam (May), …Las Vegas (May), …Washington(May), …Los Angeles(June) and …Miami(June, $17.95 each).

RDR BOOKS
Stories such as the one about monkeys dancing in a guest’s nightgown at a Kenyan lodge fill I Should Have Stayed Home: Hotels—Hospitality Disasters at Home and Abroad (Mar., $15.95), edited by Roger Rapoport, Bob Drews and Kim Klescewski. Sauteed termites in Borneo are on the menu in I Should Have Stayed Home: Food—Tantalizing Tales of Extreme Cuisine (Apr., $15.95), also edited by Rapoport, Drews and Klescewski. Michael Kohn, editor of the Mongol Messenger, collects his Asian observations in Mongolian Messenger (June, $17.95). Roger Rapoport tells how he got into the business of gathering stories of horrible travel adventures in King of the Road: Trouble Travel Made Easy (June, $17.95). Never Get Lost Again (Apr., $15.95) by Linda Grekin is a second edition.

ROARING FORTIES PRESS (dist. by IPG)
R. Todd Felton defines the relationships between writers and their towns with A Journey into the Transcendentalists’ New England (May, $19.95). Next, Scott Winterrowd assesses what effect the landscape had on a great American painter in A Journey into Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico (June, $19.95).

ROUGH GUIDES
New covers, uniform blue spines, new logo, newly added color sections—these are some of the physical changes evolving in the 2006 editions of Rough Guides. New to the Directions line this March are Orlando & Walt Disney World DIRECTIONS (Mar.) by Ross Velton and Dublin… (Mar., $10.99 each) by Paul Gray and Geoff Wallis. First edition destination guides are Florence & Siena (Apr.) by Jonathan Buckley and Tim Jepson and Italian Lakes (Apr., $19.99 each) by Matthew Teller and Lucy Ratcliffe. More than three dozen additional titles are being updated and readied for spring and summer, including Prague (Feb., $17.99) by Rob Humphreys; First-Time Asia (Apr., $15.99) by Lesley Reader and Lucy Ridout; New York City Mini Guide (Apr., $10.99) by Martin Dunford and Jack Holland; Tanzania (May, $23.99) by Jens Finke; The Grand Canyon (June, $17.99) by Greg Ward; The Ionian Islands (July, $16.99) by Mike Edwards and John Gill; and Sydney (July, $18.99) by Margo Daly. A pair of new Dictionary Phrasebooks are Croatian (July) and Latin American Spanish (July, $6.99 each).

RUTLEDGE HILL PRESS
Some of the biggest names in Hollywood reveal their preferences in Celebrated Weekends: The Stars Guide to 100 of the Most Exciting Cities in the World (June, $24.99) by Mark Seal.

ST. MARTIN’S
With Jessica Smith (star of MTV’s reality series, Laguna Beach) signed to be the 2006 spokesperson for the Let’s Go series, St. Martin’s is hoping to elevate the youth-focused, budget-travel books’ profile higher than it already is. Destinations covered by January releases are Amsterdam($16.99), Britain($22.99), Eastern Europe($23.99), France($22.99), Greece($19.99), Ireland($19.99), Italy($22.99), London($16.99), Mexico($22.99), New Zealand($19.99), Puerto Rico($15.99), Spain & Portugal ($22.99), USA($24.99) and Western Europe($24.99).

SANTA MONICA PRESS (dist. by IPG)
George Washington’s wooden teeth and Bonnie and Clyde’s death car are among the lures cited in The Ruby Slippers, Madonna’s Bra and Einstein’s Brain: The Locations of America’s Pop Culture Artifacts (Feb., $16.95) by Chris Epting. Epting is at it again with Haunted Hikes: Spine-Tingling Tales and Trails from North America’s National Parks (Mar., $16.95). Bela Lugosi’s grave and the place where The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was filmed can be located with Creepy Crawls: A Horror Fiend’s Travel Guide (June, $16.95) by Leon Marcelo. Fewer chills, but perhaps as many thrills are on the map drawn by Route 66 Adventure Handbook (May, $16.95) by Drew Knowles.

SECOND STORY PRESS
Exotic and familiar journeys are recalled by 32 women writers in the collection entitled Outside of Ordinary (Mar., $14.95), edited by Lynn Cecil and Catherine Bancroft.

SHERIDAN HOUSE
A man, a woman and a dog sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver, Canada, on a 37-foot steel ketch, and their story sends waves through Slow Boat from China (Mar., $23.95) by Adrian Sparham.

SIERRA CLUB BOOKS (dist. by Univ. of Calif. Press)
Hiking the Grand Canyon(Mar., $16.95) by John Annerino is the third edition of this Totebook.

SPECK PRESS
Eric Peterson asserts in Ramble: A Field Guide to the U.S.A. (Apr., $16) that our country is the best destination in the world for a road trip because of its flaws.

STERLING
Photographer Elan Penn gets around and provides the photography for three new titles in Sterling’s A Pictorial Celebration series: San Francisco: A Pictorial Celebration (May) by Christopher Craig, Philadelphia… (May) by Alice L. George and Vancouver… (May, $14.95 each) by Constance Brissenden.

STEWART, TABORI & CHANG
Know anyone who pines for some beautifying elective surgery that’s too expensive in American hospitals and clinics? Jeff Schult supplies the solution in Fabulous Places to Get Affordable and Quality Cosmetic Care Outside the U.S. (July, $16.95).

STYLUS PUBLISHING
A U.K. organization, Tourism Concern, promotes responsible and sustainable tourism, and its imprimatur goes to places to visit and stay around the world. All the pertinent information for more than 60 countries can be found in The Ethical Travel Guide: Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays (July, $22.50) by Polly Pattullo.

TASCHEN
Tempting hotels in the U.S. and Canada display their charms in The Hotel Book: Great Escapes North America (May, $39.99 cloth) by Daisann Mclane. During the making of Taschen’s 1000 Families, photographer Uwe Ommer took a four-year, 250,000 km journey, and the journal of his travels is Transit: Around the World in 1424 Days (July, $59.99 cloth).

I.B. TAURIS
The secrets of the Cyclades are uncovered by John Freely in The Cyclades: Discovering the Greek Islands of the Aegean (June, $19.95). Venice: City of Art(May, $25.95 cloth) by Matteo Varia, with photos by Livio Bourbon, depicts the city of canals in a bright new light. A pair of Tauris Parke paperbacks are Indian Balm: Travels Amongst Fakirs and Fire Warriors (Mar., $14.95) by Paul Hyland and River in the Desert: A Modern Traveller in Ancient Egypt (July, $14.95) by Paul William Roberts.

From Mta Publications: An area known for its geographical differences is charted and mapped in Walking in the Caucasus—Georgia: A Complete Guide to the Birds, Flora and Fauna of Europe’s Most Diverse Landscape (Mar., $19.95) by Peter Nasmyth.

THAMES & HUDSON
Peter Sager has combined an unusual travel guide, history, biography and psychoanalysis of two towns in Oxford & Cambridge (Feb., $39.95 cloth). Choice destinations for scuba diving around the world are assembled in Dive in Style (Apr., $40 cloth) by Tim Simond. The StyleCity series takes off for Greece, thanks to StyleCity Athens (May, $24.95) by Ioanna Kopsiafti, with photos by Julia Klimi.

THUNDER’S MOUTH PRESS
David Gilligan takes his readers to the highest places on four continents with In the Years of the Mountains: Climbing the World’s Tallest Ranges in Search of Their History, Geology, Culture…and a Good Foothold (July, $15.95).

TIME OUT GUIDES
Vancouver (Apr., $19.95) is a first edition that includes information on the Whistler skiing area, Victoria and the Gulf Islands. Updated guides are South of France (Feb.), Barcelona(Mar.), London(Mar.), New York(Mar.), Paris(Mar.), Patagonia(Mar.), Mallorca & Menorca (Apr.), San Francisco(Apr.) and Berlin (June, $19.95 each). London Bars, Pubs & Clubs (June, $16) reviews more than 900 drinking establishments. London for Children (July, $17.99) finds child-friendly spots all over town. Time Out Gay & Lesbian London(July, $16) lists pubs, clubs, shops, saunas and other places of interest.

TRAVELERS’ TALES
Essays and travel recollections by such writers as Myla Goldberg, Jan Morris and Francine Prose are amassed in Travelers’ Tales: Prague and the Czech Republic (Feb., $17.95), edited by David Farley and Jessie Sholl. A 300-year-old waterway is the inviting venue for Floating Through France: Reflections on the Canal du Midi (May, $16.95), edited by Barbara Euser. The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2006: True Stories from Around the World (Apr., $16.95) is edited by Lucy McCauley.

TUTTLE
Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling 25 of the city’s colorful characters in Bangkok Babylon (May, $14.95). Text and photos bring the Chinese experience to life in China: A Travel Adventure (June, $19.95 cloth) by Lorien Holland. Another Asian country reaches out with Korea: Land of Morning Calm (June, $24.95 cloth) by Craig Brown.

ULYSSES PRESS
The exotic and the original are highlighted by Patricia Kime in Hidden Philadelphia and the Amish Country (Apr., $14.95). Three other entries in the Hidden series are Hidden Puerto Vallarta (Apr., $13.95) by Richard Harris, …Oahu(June, $14.95) by Ray Riegert and …Seattle (June, $14.95) by John Gottberg.

UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Natural features as well as biological and geological attractions are the reasons behind This Land: A Guide to Western National Forests (Mar.), …Central National Forests (Mar.) and …Eastern National Forests (June, $24.95 each), all by Robert H. Mohlenbrock.

UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Military posts and battle sites that attract history buffs receive an overview by Stan Hoig in A Travel Guide to the Plains Indian Wars (Apr., $21.95).

UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Metropolitan Philadelphia (May, $19.95) by Steven Conn surveys the utopian impulse behind the city’s founding, as well as the variety of institutions that have shaped its growth and made it what it is today.

UNIV. OF TEXAS PRESS
Boxed sets of cards created by The Charles W. Moore Center represent a new form of travel guide with Placenotes New York Art Museums (Mar.), …Santa Fe (Mar.) and …Houston (Mar., $19.95 each).

VEGANET PUBLICATIONS
Hiking Bermuda—20 Nature Walks and Day Hikes (Mar., $19.954) by Cecile Davidson is a revised edition with 21 maps and original photos by Stephen Davidson.

VILLARD
Eating unusual foods at odd hours needn’t widen the waistline, or so says Peter Greenberg in The Traveler’s Diet: The Road Warrior’s Guide to Eating Right, Staying Fit and Losing Weight (May, $14.95).

VOYAGEUR PRESS
The advice here is: Get off the beaten track! To that end, Karen Misuraca wrote Backroads of the California Wine Country: Your Guide to the Wine Country’s Most Scenic Backroad Adventures (May, $19.95), which has photos by Gary Crabbe; and Robert W. Domm wrote Backroads of Michigan: Your Guide to Michigan’s Most Scenic Backroad Adventures (June, $19.95). Black-and-white photos from then and now recapture Route 66 Lost & Found: Ruins and Relics Revisited, Vol. 2 (July, $29.95 cloth) by Russ Olsen. Ambient Images provides the photos for Our San Diego (May, $16.95 cloth). Some 30 sites are celebrated in South Carolina’s Plantations & Historic Homes (May, $24.95 cloth) by Paul M. Franklin and Nancy Mikula.

WATERBROOK PRESS
A Caribbean island awakens thoughts of beauty, community and the spiritual life in Robert Benson, who explains why in Home by Another Way: Notes from the Caribbean (Apr., $13.99).

WELCOME BOOKS
Wes Walker’s photos accompanied by thoughts from local California vintners and literary figures show off the splendors of Hidden Sonoma (May, $18.95 cloth).

WESTCLIFFE
Photos illustrate the best that a Colorado city has to offer in Boulder(Apr., $14.95 cloth) by Gail and Russell Dohrmann. Anne O’Brien and the Heard Museum introduce Native American communities in Traveling Indian Arizona (Mar., $19.95). Some 100 spiritual destinations are noted in Oregon Sanctuaries, Retreats and Sacred Places (Mar., $22.95) by Shari MacDonald Strong, with photos by Steve Terrill. A range of difficulty levels and geographical varieties are exhibited in Walking into Colorado’s Past: 50 Front Range History Hikes (Apr., $19.95) by Ben Fogelberg and Steve Grinstead. Horse-friendly trails and terrain swing open with Saddle Up, New Mexico (Apr.) by Nina Buonaiuto and John Cloyed and …Colorado(May, $22.95 each) by Sherry and Scott Snead. Floral extravaganzas are the thing for Colorado’s Best Wildflower Hikes Vol. 3: The San Juans (May) by Pamela D. Irwin and Oregon’s Best Wildflower Hikes: Southwest Region (May, $19.95 each) by Beth Horn. Carolyn Sutton cites family-friendly, nature-filled excursions in Family Guide to Colorado’s Parks and Monuments (May, $19.95).

WESTHOLME
Public collections from the famous to the obscure can be visited with the information given in Museums of Atlanta: A Guide for Residents and Visitors (May) by Scott Hawley and Kevin L. Crow and …Los Angeles… (June, $14.95 each) by Mia Carino and Ann Cross.

WHITE STAR (dist. by Rizzoli)

Aerial photography is the elevated approach taken by Paolo Novaresio in Africa: Flying High (May, $24.95 cloth). Galen Rowell’s Timeless North America(Apr., $30 cloth) by Galen Rowell contains both his photographs and his text. Two very different areas are limned in Ireland: The Emerald Island (Mar., $18.95 cloth) by Erin McCloskey and Australia: The New Frontier (Mar., $39.95 cloth) by Alessandra Mattanza. Exploring Countries of the World is a new series for younger readers, and the first five titles set for April are Canada by Elizabeth and Peter Duthie, Mexico by Marco Moretti, France by Simonetta Crescimbene, Russia by Arnaldo Alberti and Italy ($9.95 each cloth) by Fabio Bourbon.

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