Word: guidebooks
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Michael Mills, a veteran health inspector in New York City, helps create a map of the city you won't find in any guidebook: a rat map. That's right, a map of the New York neighborhoods that rodent populations call home...
...either deified or demonized for most of the 20th century. Recently a far worse fate has befallen his works: indifference. Published in 1923, “The Prophet” enjoyed relative success among Gibran’s contemporaries and was rediscovered in the 60s as a spiritual guidebook written by an “Oriental wise man.” The truth of the matter, though, is that Gibran moved to Boston’s South End at the age of 12, having previously received no formal education in the Lebanon. Though he returned to Beirut for high school...
...from Patten's sure familiarity with the places he's writing about, and his asides - the "weak handshake" of a Sri Lankan rebel leader, the taste he shares with Helmut Kohl for the products of Chinese brewer Qingdao -set it apart from more academic works. Part history, part opinionated guidebook, What Next? should hold up for a few years...
Everyone knows that the best way to take the pulse of a city is to walk its streets. Private-tour company Urban Gentry (www.urbangentry.com) offers exclusive, bespoke walking tours that aim to show you the London you won't find in any guidebook. Focused on the city's design, fashion, art, architecture and food scenes, the tours venture into pockets of London where the company's guides - all picked for their insider knowledge - live, work and play...
...entrance to the Jade Temple, one sign said admission cost 10 yuan, another said 20 yuan. My parents insisted that it said 10 yuan in the guidebook, and they wanted to pay that. The lady selling the tickets had limited English, so MacDuff was supposed to translate our request...