Avant-Guide Prague: Insiders Guide to Progressive Culture
by Dan Levine (Editor)
192 pages, Empire Press Media, Bk&Pa Edition 2004
ISBN 189160323X
›Discoveries and authoritative reports on stylish hotels, the latest restaurants, unique shops, and the best nightspots. Exploring cultural delights in Old Town, the Jewish Quarter, Mala Strana, and New Town, Avant-Guide Prague offers almost a dozen original features that zero-in on people who are driving local scenes in art, television, music, film, fashion, and food. Edited and designed for fashion-aware travelers of all ages and pocketbooks, this book combines all the comprehensiveness of a traditional travel guide with the knowing intelligence and fast-forward design of a top-notch urban magazine.‹ (Publisher)
›Hedonists Guide to Prague takes the reader off the tourist track and shows them how to live like a sophisticated local or a well-to-do expat. Mixing the fashionable and the alternative this is the consummate guide to the city.‹ (Publisher)
›Featuring essays by Myla Goldberg, Helen Epstein, Jan Morris, and Francine Prose, Travelers Tales Prague collects over 20 stories from the city that inspired compositions from Mozart and novels from Kafka. ... The pieces in this book are both a charming enticement for prospective travelers and a welcome companion for those already there. The anecdotes featured here include a Kafkaesque visit to the castle, reminiscences of a supermodel native daughters exile and return, musings on southern Bohemias fairy-tale appearance, and a fast-paced joust with the local police.‹ (Publisher)
The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest
by Eli Valley
538 pages, Jason Aronson 1999
ISBN 0765760002
The Jewish citizens of Prague played an important role in the history of this city and in creating that special atmosphere of Prague. Filled with stories, anecdotes and insider information this book can help you to discover and feel Pragues magic.