Thomas Cook Publishing - Travel Essentials

Our best sellers giving insight into the most popular destinations

Essential pocket guides to your sun or city destination

Backpacking made easy for the budget traveller

For the self-drive traveller. Includes B&B France

A series of city guides specifically for the gay market

The only concise guide to European and Overseas rail & surface travel

Everything you need to plan trips including maps & phrasebooks.

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Maps, atlases, phrasebooks and travel safety... everything you need to make the right decisions about where, when and how to travel.

Rail Maps - unique maps covering Europe and Great Britain & Ireland.

Europe: passenger railways from the Atlantic to Moscow; over 6000 cities and towns; high-speed and scenic routes colour-coded; enlargement on reverse covers Paris to Warsaw
Great Britain and Ireland: passenger railways of Britain and Ireland; colour-coding shows the different operators’ routes; scenic routes highlighted; guide to major tourist attractions; enlargement of London area

Phrasebooks - European (12-language), Eastern European (12-language) and South-East Asian (9 language). Phrases for use on the road in the following languages:

European Phrasebook: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish
Eastern European: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Ukrainian
South-East Asian: Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Khmer, Laotian, Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese

Passport to Safer Travel - published with personal safety experts the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and with a foreword from Independent travel editor Simon Calder.