Guide Books
It was a lot easier 20-30 years ago when travel book choices for the more exotic destinations were limited. You went to the bookstore and hoped there might be ONE book about your destination. Now there are shelves of books, and the task is how to discriminate. My current favorite general purpose guides are Cadogans, Footprint, and the Rough Guides - these all provide [in varying degrees], good historical and cultural coverage, and useful maps [the popular Lonely Planet series doesn't match these others in either category]. For in depth historical and architectural coverage, the Blue Guides are unsurpassed. Their organization takes a bit of getting used to, but this small effort is repaid by detailed site plans of ruins, palaces, etc. They're great books for planning trips. continued at http://cascoly.com/trav/guides.asp
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