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Travel Books
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EUROPE

Access in Paris Access in London Guide Rousseau H

The Accessible
Guide to Florence

Wheelchair Through Europe  
 

 

 

AUSTRALIA

Easy Access
Australia
The Wheelie's
Handbook of Australia
A Wheely Good Guide to Sydney, Australia
 

 

 

US & CANADA

Easy Access to National Parks Accessible Fun in Florida
Accessible Quebec Wheels & Waves
 

 

 

GLOBAL TRAVEL

Access in Israel
Easy Walks in Israel
Exotic Destinations for Wheelchair Users
A World of Options

Access in Paris

Ah, Paris! The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the food, the wine…. Of course, everyone dreams of going there, but what about the access? For those of us with mobility issues, our first concerns are:: Will there be curb cuts? How about accessible bathrooms? Are there accessible buses and taxis? Can I easily visit the famous sites and cafes, cruise the Seine and shop like other tourists? Relax. Paris is possible to enjoy whether on foot or in a wheelchair, but planning is the key. Gordon Couch and Ben Roberts’ "Access in Paris” is here to help with your planning. The research and survey work was conducted by the Pauline Hephaistos Survey Projects, which included both able-bodied and disabled survey team members. The team stormed hotels, hostels, churches, museums, transportation and accessible bathrooms and more then condensed their findings into commentaries on each venue with coded access symbols that  easily tune readers into the level of access (or lack there of ) of each venue.

This guide is free, but a £10 donation is requested to help defray the cost of research, printing and postage. If your order is coming from outside Britain, please send cash in your local currency or use the www.paypal.com account (Access Project (called).Gordon Couch)  Do not send local checks as the cost of cashing them in Britain is prohibitive.

The 1993 guide comes with a 1997 update, which includes Disneyland Paris.

 If you have questions, contact Gordon Couch at  gordon.couch@virgin.net or write:

Access Project,
39 Bradley Gardens,
West Ealing,
London W13 8HE, UK

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Guide Rousseau H

France graphicPlanning a trip to France? This French travel Guide features 1000 pages - 500 focusing on access in France and other worldwide destinations. Available only in French.


http://www.handica.com/acces_themes/article_rw_457.html

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The Accessible Guide to Florence

Whether you’re renting a wheelchair, needing bus schedules, seeking hotel accommodation with a roll-in shower, or searching for museum access information, the new Accessible Florence Guide by Cornelia Danielson will prove helpful. Visit http://www.bftservices.it/ for additional details. Read an excerpt here:
http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=23692

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Access in London

Even an able-bodied traveler can find London (population seven million) to be a complex city to navigate. Many of its buildings are hundreds of years old, and we know very well that ancient rarely = access. Still, London remains one of the most popular travel destinations in the world, and Global Access frequently receives queries from readers seeking  information to simplify a   trip there. Thankfully, the producers of Access in London have done just that, and they deserve a big round of applause for the tremendous accomplishment of squeezing an incredible amount of access information into this 320-page book.

Want to figure out transportation alternatives in a city with an antiquated subway system? Access in London shows you the options. Seeking budget (or luxury) accommodations? This book provides a full range of hotels, hostels and camping. Wondering what museums, theaters, restaurants, and historical sites are accessible? Wonder no more. It's all here from the British Museum to the Tower of London, and everything in between.

The 2003 guide is free but a £10 donation is requested to help defray the cost of research, printing and postage. If your order is coming outside Britain, please send cash in your local currency or use their www.paypal.com account (Access Project (Gordon Couch). Do not send local checks as the cost of cashing them in Britain is prohibitive.

The 2003 guides are free, but donations are requested to cover printing and shipping costs. In the UK, please send 10 pounds. If you're ordering this book outside the UK (where postage cab be considerably more expensive), please send the cash equivalent of  $25 U.S. in your local currency to:

Access Project
Pauline Hephaistos Survey Project
39 Bradley Gardens
West Ealing W13 8HE
United Kingdom

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Wheelchair Through Europe

France graphicGermany graphicItaly graphicEngland graphic

What access can a wheelchair user expect in Europe? Annie Mackin's Wheelchair Through Europe offers a first-hand view of what it's like to travel through some of the world's most popular destinations by power chair.

Mackin traveled with an able-bodied friend and used a Quickie wheelchair complete with a portable DAMACO motor and batteries.

Her book chronicles visits to the following destinations: Amsterdam; Germany: Bavaria, Munich & the Romantic Road; Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence, and the Tuscany hill towns of Siena and San Gimignano; France: Paris, Nice, Cannes, Chartres, Giverny; Monte Carlo; Switzerland: Interlaken, Grindelwald; Britain: London, Bath, Glastonbury, Avebury, Stonehenge, Salisbury and the Northern Lake District.

Mackin emphasizes budget travel as well as access to affordable accommodations, trains, museums, popular sites, shopping and disability resources in each country.

Annie Mackin's Wheelchair Through Europe is available through mail order for $12.95 U.S. including postage for the continental U.S. Overseas orders require an additional $5.00 U.S. postage. Send check or money order payable to Graphic Language Press.

e-mail: graphiclanguage@yahoo.com

Graphic Language Press
P.O. Box 270
Cardiff by the Sea, CA 92007 U.S.A.

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Easy Access to National Parks

The great outdoors is for everyone! And thanks to the well-documented research of Wendy Roth and Michael Tompane, disabled campers will be more aware of the access available in the U.S. National Parks. Whether you're longing to visit Yellowstone or Haleakala, the Grand Canyon or the Everglades, Easy Access to National Parks will simplify your trip planning. Traveling across the U.S., Roth, who has M.S. and uses a power chair, and Tompane, who is able-bodied, visited forty-five national parks, two national historical parks, four monuments, two national parkways, and dozens of state parks and national forest campgrounds. The fruit of their extensive efforts is now available in this informative, entertaining guide. 

 Available for $16.00 from Sierra Club Books. 404 pages.

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Accessible Fun in Florida

This soft cover 424-page book covers Florida from the Panhandle to the
Florida Keys.
Access to tourist attractions, beaches, state and local
parks, theaters, sports stadiums, fishing piers, boat rentals, resorts, campgrounds, houseboats and more are featured. $24.95. Order on line at www.wheelchairsonthego.com Or call (727) 573-0434 or 1-888-245-7300 with your credit card information  Or send a check, money order or credit card information to:

Wheelchairs on the Go
14074 Egret Lane
Clearwater, FL 33762

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Accessible Quebec
This guide contains accessible information on 300 hotels, attractions and restaurants. The sites were assessed by Kéroul with criteria recognized by Tourism Québec. Kéroul is a non-profit organization founded in 1979 to develop accessible travel.

An English version of the guide is now available for $10.00 from Kéroul. 111 pages.

Kéroul
4545 Pierre-De Coubertin Ave.
P.O. Box 1000, Station M
Montreal (Quebec) H1V 3R2
Tel: (514) 252-3104    
Fax: (514) 254-0766

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A Wheely Good Access
Guide to Sydney, Australia

This new guidebook by Megan Harper details accessible venues in Sydney and lists accessible accommodation, restaurants, tourist attractions, car parks, shopping centres and outdoor venues. The book is designed for wheelchair users, the elderly, and parents pushing strollers.

Harper surveyed the major tourist areas of Sydney, including the city, Bondi Beach, Manly Beach, North Sydney, Chatswood and Newtown.

Harper, who has wheelchair using friends, was surprised at the lack of information available on access in Sydney. She started to research  the access issue while completing her Master's degree at the University of NSW in 1999. Her thesis focused on access to the city's hotels.

Harper donates 10 percent of the proceeds from sales of the guidebook to the Spinal Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, in the hope that the funds will increase the great research work currently being carried out there.

Price:  $19.95 (+$2.50 P&H) (within Australia) Orders from outside Australia: AUD$32/US$21 (includes P&H).

Contact Megan Harper at fleaharper@yahoo.com.au
Mobile 0417 217 393,  Fax 02-9427 8820
Cheques are made payable to:

Megan Harper  
P.O.  Box 1755
Lane Cove 2066, Australia.

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The Wheelie’s Handbook 
of Australia 

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n the early 1980s, a disabled friend of mine carefully planned his first trip to Australia. At that time, access information for the land of Oz was nil. So not knowing if he could count on accessible accommodations, transportation and attractions, my friend reluctantly decided to leave his power chair at home and settle for his attendant pushing his manual chair.

Thankfully, wheelchair users planning to visit Australia in the millennium need not sacrifice their mobility independence any longer because excellent writers such as Colin James continue to broadcast Australia’s excellent access progress. James, a well-known entertainer, traveled the continent with his wife Diane to compile “The Wheelie’s Handbook of Australia,” which includes over 500 accessible accommodations in over 300 towns and 400 accessible tourist attractions.

This wonderfully comprehensive book is thoughtfully cone-bound, enabling readers to easily turn pages rather than wrestle with traditional stiff binding.

Ever wonder if you could catch an accessible taxi in Sydney, wheel on an accessible beach or cuddle a real live koala? If so, this is the book for you.

This handbook is also a continuing work in progress because James continually updates his web site with newly discovered accessible venues.

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wheelies/

The Wheelie’s Handbook of Australia is now available by writing 

Colin James
3 Furner Avenue
Bell Park, Victoria 3215 
Australia

Cost per book is AU$22.95 (within Australia), or AU$32.25 (Asia and New Zealand) or $AU35:25 (for orders from Europe, the U.S.A. and other countries). Or charge to your VISA or MasterCard.

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Easy Access Australia Second Edition

Bruce Cameron takes another bite out of his homeland with his second edition of Easy Access Australia First published in 1995, Cameron updates this 2000 edition with the latest access info from each of Australia's territories regarding everything from accommodation to transportation, equipment hire, helpful organizations, popular attractions, attendant care and toilets. Cameron so thoroughly researched available accommodations that he even provides floor plans of the recommended lodgings. Simply outstanding. Thoroughly researched and beautifully presented, this guide will help facilitate a G'Day in Australia whether you're visiting Ayers Rock, Sydney or the Great Barrier Reef. 
506 pages. Illustrated.

To order Easy Access Australia, contact the author at

e-mail: bruceeaa@vicnet.net.au or visit the website at

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bruceeaa/Learnmor.html

In Australia, the cost per book is 27.45 Australian Dollars. In the United Kingdom, it is 20 pounds and in the US, $25.

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Easy Walks in Israel photo EasyWalks in Israel: Sites and Stories
by Aviva Bar-Am

EasyWalks in Israel: Sites and Stories is a unique user-friendly volume of non-strenuous strolls, easy walks and super-easy hikes throughout Israel. It also includes sixteen wheelchair accessible sites! Chapters begin with a description of the attractions offered, give a degree of difficulty and tell the reader how long it will take him to visit the site. The book was written by Aviva Bar-Am, a former correspondent for Israel's English-language newspaper, "The Jerusalem Post". Based on her acclaimed weekly column, "Landscapes," EasyWalks is written in a conversational, journalistic style. It contains history, legends, anecdotes ,and occasional Biblical references. Included are nature walks, historic sites, roadside stops and scenic drives accessible to wheelchairs. Many of the other trips are are considered super-easy (level ground) and even more are paved walks. New and old Jerusalem neighborhoods are included, as is Old Tel Aviv, Old Jaffa, Old Haifa, and other historic cities. 

The book can be ordered from http://www.israeltravels.com/

Price: $US 21.00 includes shipping anywhere in the world. 206 pages; 45 half-page and full-page color photos. 

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Access in Israel
& The Palestinian Authority

Far from an easy place to research access, Gordon Couch did a top-notch job covering accommodation and getting around Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and the north coast, Galilee, Upper Gallilee, Be'er Sheva, the Negev and Eilat.

The top 20 sights are well covered and readers will receive a good grounding in what o expect whether it's the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Dome of the Rock, and Al-Aqsa, the Church oof the Nativity, Masada, The Jewish Quarter and the Arab Souk in the Old City, Gaza and more.

This 2000 guide is free, but a £10 donation is requested to help defray the cost of research, printing and postage. If your order is coming from outside Britain, please send cash in your local currency or use the www.paypal.com account (Access Project (called).Gordon Couch)  Do not send local checks as the cost of cashing them in Britain is prohibitive.

 If you have questions, contact Gordon Couch at  gordon.couch@virgin.net or write:

Access Project,
39 Bradley Gardens,
West Ealing,
London W13 8HE, UK

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A World of Options

Map graphicWould you like to travel,  work or volunteer overseas? This comprehensive two-volume set provides a  look at the many opportunities now available to disabled people. Its 600-plus pages are packed with  personal travel accounts detailing trips to such global destinations as: Africa, China, Europe, and more. It not only provides a helpful commentary on what ADA means to a disabled traveler, it also offers in-depth access critiques on various airlines, rental cars, hotel/motel accommodations, cruise ships, and buses worldwide, as well as adventure travel and volunteer opportunities. All in all, A World of Options provides  the essential information a disabled traveler needs to plan an accessible journey and/or work abroad. The resource listings are particularly interesting; they provide valuable input on everything from camping in Britain to exploring Costa Rica.

Now available for $45 U.S. (including shipping and handling) from:

Mobility International USA
PO Box 10767
Eugene, OR 97440 U.S.A.
541-343-1284 (voice/TDD)
Fax: 541-343-6812
email: info@miusa.org


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Exotic Destinations for Wheelchair Users:
Hotel Guide to the Orient


The inscrutable Orient can prove even more inscrutable when it comes to access. This handy hotel guide may help minimize the challenge. The guide covers Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Tawian & Thailand.

It is published by Full Data Limited of San Francisco and is available for $14.95 from Bookmasters 800-247-6553.

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Wheels & Waves
Cruise, Ferry, River & Canal Barge Guide
for the Physically Challenged

Wheels and water are usually an unlikely duo, but Genie and George Aroyan researched what works and what doesn't. Available from:

Wheels Aweigh Publishing Company
17105 San Carols Boulevard, Suite A-6107
Fort Myers Beach, FL 33931 U.S.A.
and from Bookmasters (800) 637-2256.

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