Over the ensuing 20 years, the popularity of Baedeker's travel guide grew along with his firm. He was the first to introduce the "star system" of marking must-see sites with an asterisk, and he ...

If ageing rock bands can reform, why shouldn't well-respected guidebooks make a comeback? History does not record whether Karl Baedeker was a mean air guitarist, but he would surely give an ...

IT would be interesting, but undoubtedly difficult, to trace the stream of guidebooks to its original source. Such slight researches as I have made seem to indicate that possibly Baedeker, like so ...

IT was a cold and overcast afternoon, and the Alexandra Hotel looked like a stern and gray matron. Close by the banks of Loch Linnhe on the west coast of Scotland, the traditional hotel had two steep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As retirement looms these days, I'm getting asked a lot what I'm going to do thereafter. Beyond what I hope will be a quiet summer ...