Frommer's? Europe 2000 - Softcover

The inside flap of the front cover depicts a map of the Paris Metro, the inside flap of the back cover provides metric conversions, and nestled inside Frommer's 2000 Europe is a full-size fold-out color map with Eurail routes and ferries. And then there's the book itself, a superbly insightful, concise, and informative guide that packs in all the travel, lodging, eating, and sightseeing particulars it can without burdening your pack with a tome too cumbersome to pack. Frommer's has been covering Europe for a long time, which means they're fine-tuning and updating, not scrambling for raw data. There are 75 maps scattered throughout this guide, as well as phone numbers, addresses, prices, hours, directions, historic notes, and useful tips for 18 European countries--plus an Online Travel Directory compiled by Michael Shapiro to assist you in Internet planning. Frommer's updates yearly, so the details are as fresh as press time allows, the reviews are candid rather than canned, and the breadth and depth of information is impressive, given how many towns and cities there are to cover and still fit in one portable edition. --Stephanie Gold

About the Authors Darwin Porter, a native of North Carolina, was assigned to write the very first edition of a Frommer's guide devoted solely to one European country. Since then, he has written many best-selling Frommer's guides to all the major European destinations. In 1982 he was joined in his research efforts by Danforth Prince, formerly of the Paris bureau of the New York Times, who has traveled and written extensively about Europe. Alan Crosby has lived and worked as a journalist in Prague for the past 6 years. He is co-author of Frommer's Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic. Robert Emmet Meagher, a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States, is professor of humanities at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. The author of more than a dozen books, plays, and translations, he has lived and worked in Ireland, twice holding visiting professorships at Trinity College Dublin. George McDonald has lived in Amsterdam and Brussels as a former editor of the Sabena Belgian World Airlines and deputy editor of the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in-flight magazines. He is now a freelance journalist and travel writer, and has written extensively about the Netherlands and Belgium for international magazines and guidebooks. Sherry Marker's love of Greece began when she majored in classical Greek at Harvard. She has studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and studied ancient history at the University of California at Berkeley. Author of a number of guides to Greece, she has published articles in the New York Times, Travel & Leisure, and Hampshire Life. She has written books on a variety of subjects, including a history of London for young adults. She is co-author of Frommer's Greece. Hana Mastrini is a native of the western Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary who became a veteran of "Velvet Revolution" as a student in Prague in 1989. She began contributing to Frommer's guides while helping her husband John better understand his new home in the Czech Republic. John Mastrini is a former television news anchor from the United States. He has lived in Prague since 1989, where he works as a journalist and media consultant. He is co-author of Frommer's Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic.