Rick Steves

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born

May 10, 1955 in Edmonds, Washington, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.ricksteves.com/

genre

Travel, Nonfiction

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Richard "Rick" Steves is an American author and television personality on European travel. He is the host of a public television series, and a public radio travel show, and the author of many travel guidebooks and autobiographies.

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Books by Rick Steves

Average rating: 4.15 · 3,849 ratings · 645 reviews · 200 distinct works

	Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2007: The Travel Skills Handbook 4.25 avg rating — 890 ratings — published 1982 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Travel as a Political Act 3.91 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Rick Steves' Italy 2007 4.32 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 1995 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Rick Steves' Paris 2007 by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw, Steve Smith 4.32 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 2000 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Rick Steves' Europe 101: History and Art for the Traveler by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw 4.14 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1984 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Rick Steves' Postcards from Europe: 25 Years of Travel Tales from America's Favorite Guidebook Writer 3.75 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rick Steves' Mona Winks: Self-Guided Tours of Europe's Top Museums 4.36 avg rating — 69 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Rick Steves' London 2007 by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw 4.14 avg rating — 124 ratings — 18 editions	My rating:
	Rick Steves' Rome 2007 by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw 4.27 avg rating — 100 ratings — 14 editions	My rating:
	Rick Steves' Germany and Austria 2007 4.23 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Rick Steves

“Self-consciousness kills communication.”
― Rick Steves

tags: advice , communication , confidence , self-consciousness , speech , travel

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“Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.”
― Rick Steves

tags: optimism , positivity

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“I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm.”
― Rick Steves

tags: travel

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