guidebooks

A travel planner featuring information and charts designed to help people decide where to go, and providing profiles of one hundred countries, noting the highlights of each and offering ideas on what to do during a visit. Includes maps and photographs.

A collection of archival images that help trace the history and development of Washington, D.C., highlighting the architecture of its historic buildings.

Contains more than three hundred color interior and exterior photos of the U.S.'s fifty state capitol buildings and describes their construction, architects and builders, prominent features, unique works of art and furnishings, and functions in the state legislatures, as well as each state's beginnings.

Presents a state-by-state listing of over nine hundred hiking trails in the U.S. that follow routes or pass sites of historical importance, each with information on location, theme, sponsor, length, terrain, awards, and registration requirements.

Contains information about the birthplaces, homes, and workplaces of over fifteen hundred literary figures from Colonial times to the present.

Describes the medieval monuments, trade and town life, religion, secular power, and the intellectual atmosphere of the Middle Ages in Europe.