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  Lisbon by Time Out Guides

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  A top-notch city guide brimming with local knowledge, directing you straight to the best of Lisbon's hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars, sights and so on. Colourful and easy-to-use, too.

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  Top 10 Algarve by Eyewitness

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  Suggests the Algarve's 10 best beaches, bars, golf courses, walks, boat trips, hotels and so on. A broad range of information in a compact little guide, with decent fold-out mapping.

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  Algarve Directions by Rough Guides

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  A slender standalone edition of the Rough Guide to Portugal's Algarve section, slightly expanded, with excellent information covering all aspects of travel in the region.

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  Algarve by AA Guides

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  Spiral-bound for ease of use, this is a colourful and lightweight guide offering good walking and driving tours, excursions and sightseeing information, along with some rudimentary listings and lots of photographs.

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  Walking in the Algarve by Cicerone Guides

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  Keen walkers know better than to go anywhere without a Cicerone Guide. This excellent pocket-sized volume includes 40 coastal and mountain walks of varying difficulties, each well explained and illustrated.

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  Madeira Top 10 by Eyewitness

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  A handy pocket guide with plenty of photos of the best of everything to see and do on the islands. It also includes selected hotels and restaurants, and a pull-out map.

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  Madeira & Porto Santo by Cadogan Guides

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  A first-rate general guide full of sightseeing notes and tips, with good historical and cultural context, all presented in an accessible and enjoyable style.

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  Walking in Madeira by Cicerone Guides

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  An excellent volume of 60 walks, some appearing for the first time in this recently-updated edition, written predominantly with experienced hikers in mind. Each route is well annotated and illustrated.

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  Madeira Car Tours & Walks by Sunflower Guides

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  The guide that brought Madeira to the walking masses, this excellent volume features 6 car tours and 100 walks of varying difficulty covering all aspects of the spectacular landscape, including the popular 'levandas' - paths along local irrigation canals. A must for your trip.

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  Azores Car Tours & Walks by Sunflower Guides

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  A full-colour pocket volume showcasing walks and tours of varying difficulties, all well mapped and annotated. An essential companion to your exploration of these spectacular islands.

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  Greece by Michelin Guides

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  A regularly-updated guide for a comfortable Greek tour. Michelin are best on hotels and restaurants but provide decent historical context to back it up.

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  Greece by Lonely Planet

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  An exhaustive guide geared torwards the budget traveller, with limitless information regarding where to go and how to get there. All regions are covered in great detail, though historical insight inevitably suffers in favour of practicality.

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  Greece by Rough Guide

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  Greece was the subject of the very first Rough Guide and continues to be their flagship country. This encyclopaedic volume fuses comprehensive travel information for low to mid-range budgets with plentiful background reading covering all aspects of Greek history and culture.

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  Greece: Athens & the Mainland by Eyewitness Guides

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  Sightseeing companion of exceptional design, packed with enticing photographs and illustrations accompanying excellent material on Greece's many ancient sites and artefacts. Less useful for the practical basics however, though reasonable hotel and restaurant listings are provided.

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  Greece: The Mainland by Blue Guides

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  Unquestionably the finest companion to Greek culture in print, this weighty guide provides comprehensive historical insight plus superb coverage of art, architecture, museums and ancient sites, with some rudimentary travel information included.

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  Athens Top 10 by Eyewitness Guides

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  Whittles sprawling Athens down to its 10 finest museums, sites, walks, tavernas, festivals, hotels, daytrips and so on. Includes a decent pull-out map.

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  Athens Encounter by Lonely Planet

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  This pocket guide, which includes a pull-out map, largely bypasses historical Athens in favour of its hip, untapped local spots. Independent travellers will find this an intriguing complement to a wider general guide.

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  Athens by Time Out

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  A first-rate city guide brimming with local knowledge, directing you straight to the best Athenian hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars, sights and so on. Colourful and easy-to-use, too.

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  Athens by Berlitz Pocket Guides

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  A reliable pocket guide for a short break, with decent coverage of the major sights and some thoughtful listings. Fold-out maps are clear, though limited in scope.

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  Athens by Moleskine City Notebooks

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  A stylish fusion of pocket guide and notebook, this Moleskine series gives you much less information than its competitors but allows you to add much more.

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  Athens 2012 by Wallpaper City Guides

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  Produced by the hip lifestyle magazine of the same name, these neat pocket city guides are for the style-conscious traveller keen to indulge as they explore.

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  Peloponnese & Athens by Cadogan Guides

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  Drawing on extensive local knowledge, this excellent guide offers intelligent cultural information in addition to useful hotel and restaurant listings. The chapter on Athens is just one of eight regional sections, and as such this is a book geared towards a thorough exploration of the Peloponnese rather than simple day trips from the capital.

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  Corfu Pocket Guide by Berlitz

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  An excellent pocket companion for a brief visit.

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  Naxos and the Small Cyclades by Graf

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  A useful guide for walk around Naxos and the neighbouring islands. A decent map, however, is essential.

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  Samos, Patmos, Northern Dodecanese by Graf Editions

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  A Graf walking guide to the Northern Dodecanese islands. Includes 42 walks with a brief description and basic maps.