Top Tens Travel Guidebook

Lonely Planet

Independent travelers' Bible.
With 650 guidebooks in 14 different languages Lonely Planet cover every corner of the planet.
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Eyewitness Travel Guide

Unique graphics and 3-D aerial maps, Encyclopedic in scope.
With its visual and informational feast, this is a guide book to be used before, during, and after your stay.

Insight Guides

A guildbook gives an insight into its people's values and cultures.
Not just a guidebook of everything you want to know as a traveler, it also provide insight into a destination and help you understand other cultures.

National Geographic Guide

Highlights the diversity of the world's lands through spectacular photography and illustrative maps.
Travel with National Geographic researchers, photographers, writers, and archaeologists on journeys to the world's most intriguing places.

Frommer's

A guidbook for whole family vacation.
With over 300 guidebooks, Frommer's help you explore your travel destinations the way locals do.
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Fodors

Everyone's guidebook. Great website.
The largest English-language travel-information publisher, Fodor's Exploring Guides are the most up-to-date, always fun, colorful, and sophisticated.
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Let's Go

By budget traveler, for budget traveler.
The guidebooks are researched, written, and produced entirely by students who know first-hand how to see the world on the cheap.
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Rough Guides

A guidebook for independent travelers from British.
A journalistic approach to description with a thoroughly practical approach to travelers' needs, the guide incorporate culture, history and contemporary insights with a critical edge.

Moon Handbook and Metro

A guidebook for pacific island and beyond.
With Moon Handbooks, you'll have a more personal, entirely uncommon, and ultimately more satisfying travel experience.

Footprint Travel Guides

Authoritative guide for South America.
Its 80th annual edition of the South American Handbook become the acknowledged benchmark for travel guides.

Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door

Great travel guide for Europe.