Only in Munich - A Guide to Hidden Corners, Little-known Places and Unusual Objects

Discover Europe with the 'Only In' Guides - only the most beautiful cities and their unusual sights! The ideal city guides for travellers who want to escape the crowds and go beyond the well-known paths, as well as for those inhabitants who perhaps thought they already knew their city.

A comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 80 fascinating and unusual historical sights in one of Europe's great cities

Atmospheric crypts, fascinating breweries, wartime air raid shelters, eccentric museums and little-known cemeteries

From medieval Munich and the Wittelsbachs to the Räterepublik and the Third Reich

A Jugendstil swimming pool, Little Asia, the sunken village, and Hitler's secret headquarters

Saint Benno, Karl Valentin, Thomas Mann, and Sophie Scholl

About the author

Duncan J. D. Smith was born in Sheffield, England in 1960. He is a self-styled 'Urban Explorer', photohistorian, and travel writer, and has written several books with his father, Trevor, about their home county of Yorkshire. Duncan is a keen gardener, natural historian, collector, and cook.

Report

"We like your book because even as specialists we were able to learn about some new aspects of Munich." (Munich Tourist Office)
Munich Tourist Office

Product details

• Authors: Duncan J D Smith, Duncan J. D. Smith
• Assisted by: Duncan J. D. Smith (Photographs)
• Publisher: Brandstätter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.04.2009
• EAN: 9783850332347
• ISBN: 978-3-85033-234-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 482 g
• Illustrations: 200 Farbabb.
• Series: Only in . . .; Nur in . . .; Only in...; Nur in
• Subjects: Travel > Travel guides > Germany; München; Reiseführer