True to its name, this covers all of Tokyo's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use top 10 lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you.
Explore Morocco's busy city streets, historic mosques, and delicious food. Discover the different regions of Morocco, and see the beautiful culture firsthand through events, festivals, and local markets.
Your in-depth guide to the very best of Slovenia. Make the most of your trip to this beautiful destination with our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide. Packed with insider tips to make your trip a success, you'll find a guide to Slovenia's stunning architecture and its scenic drives that lets you experience the best hotels, bars, and shops that the country has to offer. Try local delicacies at fanta…
Geography as a concept and as a discipline has provided a number of ways into the analysis of this collection. In this and subsequent chapters, the ideas of historical and cultural geographers are deployed as tools to generate new perspectives on the collection, with particular regard to relationships between colonial settlement and image-making, the visual economies of colonial expans…
n a sunny, crisp morning in May 2008, I traveled by bus to Sipoo, a town east of Helsinki, to interview Anna. She lived in a middle-class residen-tial area, in a large yellow duplex amid a yard with a number of trees and flower beds, as well as a gazebo. Slightly nervous, as always when meeting new interviewees, I rang her doorbell, and Anna came to the d…
Whether you want to glimpse the spectacular Northern Lights, sample New Nordic cuisine in Stockholm’s trendy restaurants or kayak across crystal-clear lakes, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Sweden has to offer. With viking ruins, remote reindeer-inhabited landscapes, awe-inspiring coastal trails and kaleidoscopic skies, Sweden is an endless source of sti…
The arcades linking downtown Cairo’s boulevards were dotted with sidewalk cafés serving tea, coffee, and shisha, as well as air- conditioned bars where muthaqqafin (the cultured class) met to gossip about art and politics. The Grillon bar was a social institution among state television journalists and employees of the public arts sector, its bow- t…
From the wilds of Kruger National Park, to cosmopolitan Cape Town, to the lush western cape winelands, to the stunning beaches along the Garden Route, this guide leads you straight to the greatest attractions this fascinating and varied country has to offer. Get insider tips on everything from the best shopping, restaurants, and hotels, to outdoor activities such as whale-watching, surfing, and…
teeped in imperial splendour, Vienna delights at every turn. From Roman ruins at the foot of the Hofburg to the tallest tower of Gothic Stephansdom, the city's landmarks are a testament to its rich history. And no list of Vienna's treasures would be complete without its engaging museums and world-famous classical music.
While these displays are all fascinating in their own ways, they do not cover much beyond the defeat of Japan in 1945; no objects related to the JMSDF are on display. “I do think we should display items related to the JMSDF,” said Captain Furush? as he showed us around. “But regrettably, we currently only have displays related to the I…