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Welcome to our Travel Popular Topic -- your guide to the depth and breadth of what's on offer on this subject at your library. We've written this page both as a guide to finding travel guides, books and other material at the library and online (especially check out our guidebook catalogue quicksearches below), and also to offer you opportunities for browsing our travel collection online. Enjoy!

Our picks of the latest books

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New travel books bookshelf

  • The world's greatest hotels /introduction by Nancy Novogrod ; [editor, Jennifer Miranda].
  • Toronto /Lorraine Johnson & Barbara Hopkinson.
  • Berlin /Jürgen Scheunemann.
  • Back roads Spain /contributors, Mary-Ann Gallagher ... [et al.].
  • Back roads Great Britain /contributors, Pat Aithie ... [et al.].
  • New England's best trips :32 amazing road trips /this edition written and researched by Mara Vorhees ... [et al.].
  • California's best trips ;35 amazing road trips /this edition written and researched by Sara Benson, Nate Cavalieri, Beth Kohn.
  • Ireland's best trips :34 amazing road trips /this edition written and researched by Fionn Davenport ... [et al.].
  • The Pacific Northwest's best trips :33 amazing road trips /this edition written and researched by Mariella Krause ... [et al.].
  • Croatia /written and researched by Anja Mutić and Vesna Maric.
  • Las Vegas /Connie Emerson.
  • Paris /Mike Gerrard & Donna Dailey.
  • Dublin /Polly Phillimore & Andrew Sanger.
  • London /Roger Williams.
  • Copenhagen /Antonia Cunningham.
  • Rome /Reid Bramblett & Jeffrey Kennedy.
  • Amsterdam /Karla Zimmerman.
  • San Francisco /Jeffrey Kennedy.
  • New York City /Eleanor Berman.
  • Washington, DC /Ron Burke & Susan Burke.
  • Milan & the lakes /[contributor, Monica Torri].
  • St Petersburg /main contributors, Catherine Phillips, Christopher and Melanie Rice.
  • Loire Valley /main contributor, Jack Tresidder.
  • Prague /Theodore Schwinke.
  • Tokyo /[main contributors, Jon Burbank, Emi Kazuko, Stephen Mansfield, Robbie Swinnerton].
  • Florence & Tuscany /main contributor, Christopher Catling.
  • Moscow /Main contributors, Christopher and Melanie Rice.
  • Spain /[project editor, Nick Inman ; main contributors, John Ardagh [and 10 others] ; illustrators, Stephen Conlin [and 7 others]].
  • Barcelona /Annelise Sorenson, Ryan Chandler.
  • Not for tourists guide to San Francisco /[writing and editing, Rebecca Grant ... [et al.]].
  • Not for tourists guide to London 2013 /[writing and editing by Natalie Ashett ... [et. al.].
  • Hawaii /[project editor, Helen Townsend ; contributors, Gerald Carr ... [et al.]].
  • Amsterdam /main contributors, Robin Pascoe, Christopher Catling ; project editor, Heather Jones ; illustrators, Nick Gibbard [and 3 others].
  • Great Britain /main contributor, Michael Leapman.
  • Japan /contributors, John Hart Benson [and 8 others] ; illustrators, Richard Bonson [and 7 others].
  • Barcelona /written and researched by Jules Brown.
  • Devon and Cornwall /Robert Andrews.
  • Milan and the Lakes /Reid Bramblett.
  • Paris /[principal writer, Heather Stimmler-Hall].
  • Rick Steves' Spain 2013.
  • The thinking fan's guide to Walt Disney World.Magic Kingdom /Aaron Wallace.
  • The rough guide to Iceland /written and researched by David Leffman and James Proctor.
  • The rough guide to Morocco /written and researched by Hamish Brown ... [et al.] ; with additional contributions from Thomas Hollowell and Darren Humphrys.
  • Mörön to Mörön :two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure /Tom Doig.
  • Pocket Hong Kong :top sights, local life, made easy /Piera Chen.
  • France's best trips :39 amazing road trips /this edition written and researched by Oliver Berry ... [et. al.].
  • The green road into the trees :an exploration of England /Hugh Thomson.
  • A gun for a fountain pen :Antarctic journal, November 1910 - January 1912 /George Murray Levick.
  • Penguins and primus :an account of the Northern Expedition June 1910 - February 1913 /Harry Dickason.
  • Italy's best trips :38 amazing road trips /this edition written and researched by Paula Hardy, Duncan Garwood & Robert Landon.
  • Germany /written and researched by Andrea Schulte-Peevers ... [et al.].
  • England /written and researched by David Else ... [et al.].
  • France /written and researched by Nicola Williams ... [et al.].
  • Spain /written and researched by Anthony Ham ... [et al.].
  • Berlin /written and researched by Andrea Schulte-Peevers.
  • Discover Paris /written and researched by Catherine Le Nevez, Christopher Pitts, Nicola Williams.
  • The rough guide to France /written and researched by David Abram... [et al.].
  • The rough guide to Devon & Cornwall /written and researched by Robert Andrews.
  • The rough guide to Italy /written and researched by Robert Andrews... [et al.].
  • Discover Switzerland /written and researched by Ryan Ver Berkmoes ... [et al.].
  • Scotland /written and researched by Neil Wilson, Andy Symington.
  • 65 things to do when you retire /edited by Mark Evan Chimsky.
  • The Kimberley :Australia's unique north-west /Jocelyn Burt ; with poems by Neroli Roberts.
  • Laneways of Melbourne /[Kornelia Freeman & Ulo Pukk].
  • Wandering Paris with the artist Jill Butler /Jill Butler.
  • Hidden cities :travels to the secret corners of the world's great metropolises : a memoir of urban exploration /Moses Gates.
  • Paris to the Pyrenees :a skeptic pilgrim walks the way of Saint James /David Downie ; photographs by Alison Harris.
  • Lost in London /Lucy Scott & Tina Smith.
  • Switzerland without a car :the Bradt travel guide /Anthony Lambert.
  • Back roads :Italy /contributors, Ros Belford ... [et. al].
  • Back roads :France /contributors, Rosemary Bailey ... [et. al].
  • Travels with Puff :a gentle game of life and death /by Richard Bach ; photos by Dan Nickens.
  • Tenerife /[author, Sven Weniger ; co-author, Izabella Gawin].
  • New worlds /Nick Hunter.
  • Mount Everest /Nancy Dickmann.
  • Cambodia /[author, Martina Miethig ; translated from German by Robert McInnes].
  • Copenhagen /[author, Andreas Bormann ; translated from German by Jane Riester].
  • Morocco /[author, Muriel Brunswig-Ibrahim ; translator, Tony Halliday].
  • Brussels /[author, Sven-Claude Bettinger ; translated from German by Paul Fletcher].
  • Dublin /author, John Sykes ; co-author, Ralf Sotscheck ; translated from German by Nicole Meyer].
  • Cologne /[author, Jürgen Raap ; translated from German by Wendy Barrow].
  • Athens /[author, Klaus Bötig ; translated from the German by Tony Halliday]
  • Oslo /[authors, Thomas Hug, Jens-Uwe Kumpch ; translated from German by Christopher Wynne].
  • Venice /Gillian Price.
  • Florence & Tuscany /Reid Bramblett.
  • Scotland /Alastair Scott.
  • A month by the sea :encounters in Gaza /Dervla Murphy.
  • Cyprus :north and south /[author, Klaus Bötig ; translated from the German by Kathleen Becker].
  • The gap-year guidebook 2013 /editor, Jonathan Barnes.
  • Egypt /[author Jürgen Stryjak ; translated from German by Michael Scuffil].
  • China /[author, Hans-Wilm Schütte ; translated from German by Josephine Cordero-Sapien].
  • Lisbon /main contributor: Susie Boulton.

Travel Websites

General

Online Travel Guides

  • Bradt Travel Guides
  • Fodor's
    A solid travel site compromised by the amount of advertising.
  • Footprint Handbooks
  • Insight Guides
  • Let's Go
    Featuring the full-text of Let's Go guides to countries and major cities, including walking tours, history, transport to and within cities, and the usual food, shopping and accommodation listings.
  • Lonely Planet
    A website for the most popular travel guides at WCL, serving the budget conscious and those interested in adventuresome travel.
  • Rough Guides
    General travel information plus extensive histories and well selected recommended readings under many destinations.
  • Time Out
    Informative guides "to the world's top 34 cities", with topical articles and up-to-date night-life listings from its London and New York magazines.

General Travel Search

Guidebooks by Series

Guidebooks by Region/Country

New Zealand:

Syndetics book coverNew Zealand.

Wellington City Libraries have guidebooks for all regions of New Zealand, starting at the Call Number 919.31. Titles include New Zealand Accommodation Guide and the Jasons travel guides. The latest copies are also held at the 2nd Floor Enquiry desk at Central Library.

We have a collection of street and tramping maps for loan. We also have a reference collection of street, topographical, nautical and historical maps of New Zealand.

Websites:

Pure NZ - The official site of Tourism New Zealand, a great source of information for both visitors and locals.

 

Asia

Syndetics book coverSoutheast Asia on a shoestring

Guidebooks for Asia are shelved at 915-915.9.

Websites:

Tourism Asia

 

Australia

Syndetics book coverBack roads : Australia

Guidebooks for Australia are shelved at 919.4.

Websites:

Discover Australia - Australia's official site for NZ visitors.

 

Pacific Islands

Syndetics book coverLonely Planet South Pacific

Guidebooks for the Pacific are shelved at 919.

Websites:

South Pacific Tourism Organisation

 

Africa

Syndetics book coverThe rough guide to first-time Africa

Guidebooks for the Africa are shelved at 916.

Websites:

  • African Travel and Tourism Association - Advancing tourism to Africa.
  • South Africa.net - the official South African Tourism website.
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    Europe

    Syndetics book coverFrommer's Europe by rail

    Guidebooks for Europe are shelved 914-914.9. Guidebooks for Great Britain are shelved at 914.1, London at 914.21, and Paris at 914.436.

    Websites:

     

    Middle East

    Syndetics book coverLonely Planet Istanbul Encounter

    Guidebooks for the Middle East are shelved from 915.5.

    Websites:

    Mideasttravelling.net- Guide to Middle East destinations, just click on a country to see iformation.

     

    North & Central America

    Countries

    Cities/States

    Syndetics book coverFrommer's Canada

    Guidebooks for the United States are shelved at 917.3 and Canada at 917.1.

    Websites:

     

    South America

    Syndetics book coverRough guide to South America on a budget

    Guidebooks for South America are shelved in the 918s.

    Websites:

    South American Tourism Office

     

    Magazines

    Travel magazines are shelved with the magazine collection in the Art, Music & Literature area on the first floor of Central Library. Travel magazines are also available at Branch libraries and mygateway.info.

    DVDs

    Travel DVDs can be found in the Documentary Section of the Audio Visual Collection on the ground floor (to the right of the Issue Desks).
    Some great suggested series are:

    Downloadable Digital Audiobooks

    Now you can listen to travel related books while you're getting on with other things in your life. Check out our Digital Audiobooks. (Use the Advanced search option, and choose Travel as the Subject.)

    Atlases

    Atlases are shelved at 912. We have an excellent reference section including the Times Atlas of the World. Reference atlases are found by the end of the Returned Today stand at Central Library, and New Zealand atlases can be found at the enquiry desk.

    Maps

    Wellington City Libraries has a collection of maps for many travel destinations. These can be found behind the Returned Today stand on the Second floor at Central Library.

    Contact Us

    This page is written and maintained by Jessica Berg. My aim is to keep you informed about the Travel section of the Library and to highlight parts of the collection which may interest you. I'd be pleased to hear from you about this page - you can email me with any feedback.

     

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