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John Tauranac

Tauranac wrote the guidebooks for the Culture Bus Loops operated by New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority as a freelance project for the Municipal Art Society (1973, 1974), whereupon he was hired by the MTA to write and edit “Seeing New York: The Official MTA Travel Guide,” which included a depiction of the subway in a geographic light (1976).

Old Ghosts of New England

Representing a unique marriage of the travel guide and the book of ghost stories, Old Ghosts of New England delves deeply into the histories of New England’s most notorious haunted houses—and provides photos, and detailed directions for how to reach each place so that readers can conduct their own investigations of the paranormal.


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Desti

Desti is a travel guide app and a spin-off of SRI International that uses SRI's CALO artificial intelligence technology (the basis for Apple's Siri) to help users plan trips.

Fauzi Azar Inn

In December 2011, Tony Wheeler, founder of the Lonely Planet travel guide stayed at the Inn as a guest, and hiked the Jesus Trail with Inon.

Frogmore, Hertfordshire

The village is mentioned in Daniel Paterson's travel guide of 1796, on the route from London to St. Albans.

Reisehaandbog over Norge

Reisehaandbog over Norge is a Norwegian travel guide book first published in 1879 by Yngvar Nielsen.

Rolf Herricht

Herricht starred in several other popular DEFA comedies during the 1960s and the 1970s: among others, he played the erratic National People's Army reserve soldier Ralf Horricht in the 1965 Der Reserveheld and the last-minute-travel-guide Hurtig in the 1967 Meine Freundin Sybille.

Temple Fielding

Robert Young Pelton acquired the Fielding travel guide some time during the 1990s.

WVexplorer

Long classified as a travel guide, it has since evolved into a compendium of resources for West Virginia information.

Yngvar Nielsen

In 1879 he released the travel guide Reisehaandbog over Norge, popularly called Yngvar, which appeared in 12 editions until 1915 and came to play an important role in the spread of tourism.