Trailblazer Guide Books

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Trailblazer guides take some beating.
- Adventure Travel

Trailblazer guidebooks provide practical information on specific routes… in less accessible parts of the world.
- Wanderlust

Trailblazer Guides are produced by people who know exactly what information is needed - not just to get from A to B but to be entertaining as well as informative.
- The Great Outdoors

Worth watching out for.
- John Cleare

Engagingly written… all the guides from this stable are first class
- Traveller

wonderful handbooks
- The Bookseller

Guides that will send you packing.
- Today

These Trailblazer guides ...are a godsend for independent travelers.
- Travel & Leisure

Practical guidebooks for the more adventurous traveller.
- The Herald

Recommended in "First time...Cycle touring" by Rob Penn
- Wanderlust, October 2009

This extensive bible covers all you need to know
- Cycling Active, August 2010

solid gold, and a joy to read
- www.crazyguyonabike.com, June 2010

essential for anyone planning a mammoth cycle trip
- Wanderlust, August/September 2010

The definitive guide to how, where, why and what to do on a cycle expedition...
- Adventure Travel Magazine

inspiring...and gives plenty of advice on where to get more specific help.
- VeloVision, June 2010

The first thing we did was buy Chris Scott's Adventure Motorcycling Handbook.
- Ewan McGregor, The Long Way Round

The first edition of the Adventure Motorcycling Handbook ... inspired motorcyclists across the world and launched the motorcycle websites that today bring bikers together to share information and plan their overland adventures.
- The Daily Telegraph

This book has, pound for pound, more hard facts and information about international motorcycle touring than anything else around
- webBikeWorld

Very comprehensive coverage
- Caspian Business News (Azerbaijan)

Mark Elliott could make even an Azeri feel like he doesn't know Azerbaijan
- Baku Sun (Azerbaijan)

Recommended
- The Independent on Sunday (UK)

An excellent guidebook with useful maps
- The Guardian (UK)

Invaluable
- The Financial Times (UK)

We were very impressed by your guidebook & I used it not only for the walk but also for booking B&Bs etc.
- Jane Johnson

Just like the Hadrian's Wall guide which we used a couple of years ago, it has been a huge help in both planning and doing the walk and really added to our enjoyment.
- David Bull

The most complete guide: with all the detail you'll need for a walk in Wainwright's footsteps.
- The Sunday Times

You could pick this book up and never use another resource from the first stages of planning to arriving in St. Bees.
- Stuart Greig

The numerous detailed walking maps ... make planning your hike all the more easy.
- Trek & Mountain, June 2010

An outstandingly good value and very useful guide.
- Nichola Hele

To read it makes you wish to be there walking the route. Recommended.
- Backpack, Journal of the Backpackers Club, Autumn 2009

Trailblazer has a strong reputation for the idiosyncratic but very useful maps that illustrate these handy guides, which are small and light enough to slip into a backpack or coat pocket.
- The Telegraph, 8 September 2009

Opinionated, pragmatic...a damn good book
- Justin Murphy (UK)

Excellent
- The Times

Indispensable
- The Independent

A polished guide to the Cotswold Way National Trail, with detailed maps, GPS waypoints and masses of practical information including a section on 'minimum impact walking'.
- Walk Magazine, The Ramblers' Association

Absolutely invaluable for planning my walk –especially for accommodation and transport links.
- David Hofman

All the information a backpacker needs
- Backpack magazine

Maintains the hallmarks of these popular Trailblazer LDP guides.
- Strider, Journal of the Long Distance Walkers Association, August 2009

Recommended.
- Country Walking, April 2010

extremely useful
- Alan Pitt

Rammed full of in-depth information
- Adventure Travel

Indispensable
- London Cyclist Magazine

Inspirational guide
- Cycle Magazine

Danbury's research is thorough - almost half the book is background information - and from planning the trip to a history of the region he looks reliable. He also has attitude - on the Spanish legacy, for instance, and on human rights and travellers' safety (there are risks but as he says,most people visit Peru without any hassle).
- The Sunday Times

To get the most out of getting there - especially if hiking the trail independently - you need a guide. To be precise, you need this one.
- The Sunday Times Book of the Week

A gem
- The Daily Yomiuri

Invaluable companion
- Railway Magazine

Excellent
- The Sunday Times

Highly recommended
- Bullet-In Magazine

KILIMANJARO: THE TREKKING GUIDE TO AFRICA'S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN is a top pick for any who plan on embarking on a trek to the mountain. It covers everything, from city accommodations and restaurants nearby to what to see en route, then how to plan and book a trek to Kilimanjaro. Any outdoor or travel collection needs this.
- California Bookwatch, May 2010

Recommended guidebook.
- Trek & Mountain, May 2010

Stedman is something of a Kili obsessive...and that shows on every page of this fully revised and expanded edition of his guide... Recommended.
- Trek & Mountain, March 2010

A model of what a guidebook should be.
- David Dean

Contains almost everything you could possibly want to know about the mountain, its ascent and its surroundings.
- Strider, April 2010

Excellent maps and guides to port cities, suggested itineraries and interesting histories of the countries
- Everything Spain

Essential reading
- Land Rover World, October 2009

A must-have
- Land Rover Owner, August 2009

The brand new bible for off-roading to and across this corner of North Africa
- Wanderlust, October 2009

A comprehensive and inspirational read
- Land Rover Monthly, October 2009

Trailblazer books pack a great deal between their covers
- Canoeist

Your guide was my bible
- George Moberly

Recommended.
- Country Walking, April 2010

Provides all you need to drive the route, with stacks of advice, lots of maps and detailed info about major towns en route.
- LAM Magazine

Recommended.
- Country Walking, April 2010

These guides are excellent.
- Jackie Ager

Recommended guide
- Walk, the magazine of the Ramblers, June 2010

The book is packed with hand-drawn, highly detailed maps.
- Stuart Greig

Comprehensive ... also a fine travel guide
- Overlander (Australia)

an immense amount of detail on what to take and vehicles
- Geographical magazine, February 2010

Desert Bible
- Land Rover International

The essential Sahara guide
- The Sunday Times

... the book to inspire you to put on your boots and head for the hills straightaway.
- The Hosteller, Scottish Youth Hostel Association

Don't leave home without it!
- Scottish Mountaineer

Recommended in feature on Wild Scotland
- Wanderlust Augut/September 2010

A pioneering guidebook packed with detail
- Railway Gazette

Essential reading ... for anyone planning to experience travel on this newest of Far Eastern railway
- The Railway Magazine

The year's most esoteric travel guide...an encyclopaedic companion.
- The Independent

Recommended in "Last Chance to see... the Chinese Silk Road city of Kashgar"
- The Guardian, 8 August 2009

No-nonsense information-packed guide
- LAM Magazine

There's no better guide with which to guide yourself.
- TNT Magazine

A very useful book and certainly recommended
- Backpack magazine

Recommended.
- Country Walking, April 2010

All the information needed to enjoy walking the 100 mile trail
- Wildlife magazine, Sussex Wildlife Trust, September 2009

Use the sketch maps in Jim Manthorpe's excellent Trailblazer guide
- The Sunday Times, 2 May 2010

...the complete guide to one of the exciting areas of the Alps...
- Strider, Journal of the Long Distance Walkers Association, August 2009

A detailed guide
- The Railway Magazine

An essential companion for the rail tourist to Canada.
- The Railway Magazine

For anyone contemplating all or part of this journey, this is THE guide
- Traveller

Invaluable
- The Daily Telegraph

The Trans-Siberian Handbook... is a must
- The Sunday Times

Definitive guide
- Conde Nast Traveler

The handbook was really brilliant (everyone we met on the train had a copy!!) We can't imagine doing the trip without it.
- Helen Clive

Well researched...A wealth of information... Is a fascinating read and contains so much more than the usual handbook
- The Herald

Tells you everything you need to know
- Cosmopolitan

The Trans-Siberian Handbook (Trailblazer) is the bible for this journey...
- The Daily Telegraph

An invaluable guidebook
- The Financial Times

An invaluable travelling companion
- Traveller

First edition shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel and Guide Book Awards
- Thomas Cook Travel

My year's anthology prize however, goes to Deborah Manley's The Trans Siberian Railway. Maybe you thought you'd done it all with Newby and Theroux, but Sir Henry Norman and the splendours of Irkutsk, Lindon Bates Jnr eating free zakusa, Lesley Blanch's dressmaker facing a Japanese general and the incomparable Baedeker make this a t
- Jonathan Keates, The Observer

An information packed guide
- High

Well worth a tenner of any trekker's money
- Trail

Thoroughly recommended.
- Adventure Travel

Extensive... and well researched
- Climber

A practical trekking guide
- Traveller

A handy, concise pocket sized book
- Climber

A very detailed and informative guide.
- High magazine

A very fine guide.
- Traveller Magazine

First class trekking guide.
- Adventure Travel

Great resource and I took it with me when I did the track...written by the expert who is passionate and professional
- Cindy Sim, reader

Plenty of route maps
- TNT Magazine

The pick of the guides to the area.
- Adventure Travel

For any hiker wanting to plan a Chomolungma adventure, there is no better resource. Terrific maps.
- www.besthike.wordpress.com

Very fine guide
- Traveller

Excellent guide
- The Bookseller

The best trekking guide in the business.
- The Sunday Times

Take this one with you...Very informative
- Country Walking

When I return...I shall definitely be armed with this new guidebook... Fascinating background material...Comprehensive information...Well written
- John Cleare, High Magazine

An excellent trekking guide
- Adventure Travel

Excellent book
- Scottish Mountaineer, February 2010

This excellent guidebook reinforces magnificently what we all know – that the best mountain views are not the ones from the summits. It is in the borderland zone, amongst flower-filled alpine meadows, that the greatest pleasure is to be had, ...to enjoy some of the most spectacular glaciated mountain in the world.
- Stephen Venables, mountaineer, writer, broadcaster

Really helpful providing practical information and entertaining with all the stories from the area.
- Bernd Rickenberg, Denmark

Recommended guide
- Trek & Mountain, June 2010

...a comprehensive guide to the area as well as providing a detailed route description - two for the price of one!
- Strider, Journal of the Long Distance Walkers Association, August 2009

This trailblazer guide is all you need to travel the West Highland Way.
- Richard Gatersleben, The Netherlands July 2010

If I wrote walking guides, I'd like to think they'd turn out this way.
- John Clarke, Amazon.com

A super, user-friendly guide.
- Gordon Forrester, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, July 2010

Recommended.
- Country Walking, April 2010