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...from the rest. For example, Bryson became so frustrated with the other "incredibly useless guidebooks to Italy" that he decided not to dignify them by revealing their names--except that "one of them should have been called Let's Go Get Another Guidebook and the other one was Fodor...
...weapons and join up with the six soldiers of fortune recruited by Denley. Last week FBI and Customs Service agents arrested 14 individuals, including Denley, a former U.S. Customs officer. Agents found 13 handguns, two semiautomatic rifles, two shotguns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as a Fodor's guidebook opened to the page on Suriname...
Europe 1983-84 edited by Robert C. Fisher; Fisher Travel Guides; $14.95. Begun last year by the former editor in chief of the Fodor's Modern Guides, the 16-volume Fisher guides are aimed at travelers who like other people to make their decisions for them. Everything-hotels, restaurants, sights, museums and points of interest-gets from zero to five stars, which saves those who are in a rush to hit the beach the necessity of having to read the breezy text or the cute but helpful marginal annotations. Although the Fisher European tour whirls through 18 countries...
...Fodor's Europe 1983 Fodor's Modern Guides; $12.95 This classic series, founded by Eugene Fodor in 1936, is sober and serious, at times more British Victorian in outlook than modern American. (Describing Europeans in his introduction, British Writer John Ardagh intones: "What does Europe really have in common, beyond geography?... Above all, we comprise the great Caucasian family of white peoples ...") Fodor's is especially trustworthy on hotels and restaurants. A knowledgeable, well-organized, basically middle-class peregrination through 33 European countries, colonies and principalities that leaves no worthy stones unturned, even if they...
...hear Praeludium and Allegro (written in the style of Pugnani), Schon rosmarin or the cadenz to the Beethoven Concerto instead of the numerous Kreisler arrangements of other composers' works. The other pieces on the record are not worth the time or money. Any performance of Kreisler pieces (except Eugene Fodor on RCA Red Seal, 1977), will capture the flavor of this sentimentalist. Perlman plays a great Praeludium and Allegro...