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Ingram
This compact guide offers a wide range of restaurants, accommodation options to suit all budgets, suggestions for excursions to Malaysia and Indonesia, and a full-color map section. Leisure and business travelers alike will find their visit to Singapore enriched by using this guide. Color illustrations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of th...

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Includes: Colonial Core and Fort Canning, Chinatown, the Financial District, Kampong Glam, Little India, Orchard Road, and the outer areas.

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Malaysians and Singaporeans are food obsessed: broach the subject of food with locals and it may appear that eating takes priority over everything else in life. The multicultural traditions of the region offer the food lover a gastronomic experience like no other – a fusion of herbs, spices, sauces and ingredients from a host of cuisines, each continuall...

Amazon.com
From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travelers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most jaded globetrotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks f...

From the Publisher
This completely updated edition has been expanded to provide more in-depth coverage of Singapores burgeoning arts scene as well as keeping up to date on everything business travelers need to know about Asias #1 convention destination. Weve also expanded our coverage of Malaysia as well, covering all the best adventure travel options in this culturally rich nat...

Sky Magazine
The best travel guides ever.

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Amazon.com
Asia has the fastest growing economy on the globe, so it's no surprise that professional women are traveling there with greater frequency. But doing business in Asia is a delicate balancing act for a woman, since the region's traditional attitudes about a "woman's place" can pose special problems. In Asia for Women on Business, authors Tracey Wilen an...

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From Library Journal
Simple is the keyword here, and superficial. These are titles in a new series of small books that promise to reveal the cultures of tourist destinations and prepare the visitor for adapting to them. There are, for example, four paragraphs "explaining" Buddhism and three paragraphs on "the family structure" in the book on Thailand. There are a few obvious dos...

Ingram
The award-winning Footprint Handbooks series has been capturing worldwide attention and admiration for 75 years! Now this excellent series has been revamped to better serve world travelers. With its larger typeface, color sections and maps, bigger trim size, and travel-tough covers, Footprint Handbooks are more durable and easier to use. The series still is the best resou...

From Booklist
To set the stage for an intriguing look at the tropical domain that is Singapore, Warren's coffee-table book opens with a defining photograph showing an expansive horizontal green swath (the Padang and Esplanade Park pictured from on high) stretching before a backdrop of skyscrapers. The revealing image suggests a unique perspective on the City of Gardens, where co...

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MapEasy's Guidemap to Singapore takes you through this modern and dynamic city, exploring old singapore and locating the new hot spots in town. This Guidemap is perfect for planning your trip and includes locations of hotels, shops, sites, and transportation details. In addition, MapEasy is waterproof and tear-resistant, perfect to take with you on your adventur...

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The Periplus Adventure guides do precisely what a great travel book should do- make you want to get up and go! Periplus adventure guides show you how to get there, and then help make the absolute most out of a stay, leaving no stone, no beach, no fine restaurant or mountain trail untried. With detailed, up-to-date maps, photographs-both new and archival- persona...

Excerpted from The Rough Guide to Singapore (2nd Ed) by Mark Lewis. Copyright © 1998. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
WHEN TO GO

Singapore is just 136km north of the equator, which means that you should be prepared for a hot and sticky time whenever you go. Temperatures are uniformly high throughout the year, but it’s the region’s humidity ...

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From Publishers Weekly
In this enchanting pastiche of history, biography and travelogue, the British Museum's assistant keeper and director of the Museum of Mankind resurrects the "real" Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), founder and British governor of Singapore. Following in Raffles's footsteps, Barley plays the known facts about his life against the contradictory local myth...

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Packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! In this compact guide, our writers help you plan itineraries for short and longer stays. Complete with must-see sights on and off the beaten track as well as current hotel and restaurant recommendations. And the convenient size of the guid...

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