But, like guidebooks at a museum, they do not substitute for the exhibits they describe.
Read books at your local library or purchase MFA guidebooks at a local bookstore.
Almost 35 years after Maureen and Tony Wheeler sold hand-stapled copies of their first guidebook at 96p a time, the founders of Lonely Planet have sold up to BBC Worldwide in a deal that will see the full text of the guidebooks going online.
The next morning at the eco-lodge, compensating for our poor ordering with a breakfast (included in our nightly rate) of croissants, Corsican fig preserve and cappuccino, we prepared for our final valley — the Asco, described in at least one guidebook as a place of "breathtaking landscapes".
Down in the Old Town there are more museums than you can shake a guidebook at.
Goodness knows I would have paid top dollar for a guidebook at 22. Of course, I would have charged it and I'd still be paying it off today -- that's how unwise I was about finances.
Huddled around an emerald guidebook at the start of the company's racial bias training, they flipped to page 2.
By the 1820s, visitors could purchase an early guidebook at the site outlining the castle's history, and Victorian tourists recorded being charged six-pence to wander around the castle.
I left my guidebook at home.
