The travel industry is a big booming business and tourists are always on the lookout for good information to help them decide which destinations to choose. Providing help to this malady is Bradt Travel Guides which offers something which is different from other conventional tour guides. This UK based company, Bradt Travel Guides, produces guides that take an offbeat look at the world which goes on to distinguish them from their other conventional counterparts. Founded in 1974 by Hilary Bradt, she wrote the very first travel guide with her husband as they journeyed down the Amazon River. Since then, the commissioned authors have often gone to certain parts of the world which are not normally discussed about in travel books and are generally not associated with mass tourism.
The philosophy behind the brand of Bradt Travel Guides makes for informative but entertaining travel writing with great attention to detail and the cultural life of local people. Bradt Travel Guides covers the climate, geographical features, animal life and languages of the area it covers in the book. The history of the region or city is also explored. Everything a holidaymaker needs to know is there, including information on hotels, where to eat and health provisions. Smaller towns and villages, overlooked by other guides, are also very often featured here. The enterprising nature and the hard work has not gone unnoticed and Hilary Bradt was awarded the MBE by the Queen. The Eccentric series of books takes into account deep details of life in the UK cities of London, Edinburgh and Oxford and of destinations in France and the US.
There are guides for Africa, Europe, Asia, Tasmania, the Americas and the Caribbean. European cities with their own Bradt Travel Guide include Budapest, Paris, Spits bergen, Cork and Dubrovnik. There is also a Wildlife series, looking at the wildlife wealth to be found in Antarctica, the Arctic, the British Isles, Madagascar and Southern Africa. The Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin made many of his observations, is also in the series of Bradt Travel Guides.
The books are available to bought online and the range covers approximately 100 titles. Recent additions include Borneo, Israel, and New Zealand Wildlife. Zanzibar is scheduled for publication in March 2009. One of the books to come out of 2007 has received praise from people working in conservation. 100 Animals to See Before They Die is a guide to the animals on the endangered species list that don’t receive as much publicity as others. This book is an attempt to stop them being overlooked. Examples include the Bumblebee Bat, which is the smallest mammal in the world, and the Yangtze River Dolphin. The book includes a separate section on Madagascar. It also contains maps of how the animals are distributed, the major characteristics of the animals, the particular threats to the animals and the details of conservation work that is being done on behalf of the animals.
Another fascinating title from Bradt Travel Guides is Total Solar Eclipse 2008 and 2009. In this book eclipses are explained in detail and there is a list of expected eclipses up to 2019. Also accompanying these articles is a list of advice on how to view an eclipse safely and how to photograph and film one of these remarkable events.
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