Europe: The Rough Guide

by Jonathan Buckley, Martin Dunford

A century ago the Continental traipse was an accepted rite of passage. Well, viva the European tour. It's as alluring as it ever was, but all the particulars have changed. With planes, trains, hovercrafts, and rental cars, visas, red tape, and political conflict, an up-to-date guide is a necessity. This one covers 30 countries--everything from Austria to Turkey--including Morocco, Estonia, and Greece. The guide is peppered with informative insights into the culture, history, and pulse of each country, city, and village, and there are 100 maps with eight color transportation guides bringing the Paris Metro, Greek ferry system, and London Underground to easily legible life. Add in nightlife, accommodations, sights to see, cafés to find, and festivals to attend, and the Rough Guide to Europe is a tremendous achievement.

Genres: Travel

1264 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1994

About the author

Jonathan Buckley was born in Birmingham, grew up in Dudley, and studied English Literature at Sussex University, where he stayed on to take an MA. From there he moved to King’s College, London, where he researched the work of the Scottish poet/artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. After working as a university tutor, stage hand, maker of theatrical sets and props, bookshop manager, decorator and builder, he was commissioned in 1987 to write the Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto.

He went on to become an editorial director at Rough Guides, and to write further guidebooks on Tuscany & Umbria and Florence, as well as contributing to the Rough Guide to Classical Music and Rough Guide to Opera.

His first novel, The Biography of Thomas Lang, was published by Fourth Estate in 1997. It was followed by Xerxes (1999), Ghost MacIndoe (2001), Invisible (2004), So He Takes The Dog (2006), Contact (2010) and Telescope (2011). His eighth novel, Nostalgia, was published in 2013.

From 2003 to 2005 he held a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at the University of Sussex, and from 2007 to 2011 was an Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, for whom he convenes a reading group in Brighton.