Книга: Fodor Eugene «Compass Guide to Coastal California»

Compass Guide to Coastal California

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Domestic travel is hot this season, as more and more Americans discover the pleasure of packing up and hitting the road. Fodor's has the guides for every traveler in every region. With Fodor's Road Guide USA to get them there, Compass American for the history of the region, and Gold Guides for dining, lodging, and shopping options, your customers will never make a wrong turn.

Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2000)

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Fodor, Eugene

▪ American writer
born Oct. 14, 1905, Léva, Hung., Austria-Hungary [now Levice, Slovakia]
died Feb. 18, 1991, Torrington, Conn., U.S.

      Hungarian-born American travel writer who created a series of popular tourist guidebooks that provided entertaining reading, historical background, and cultural insights into the people and places described, as well as reliable, practical information designed to assist even the most inexperienced traveler.

      Fodor studied political economy in Czechoslovakia (B.A., 1924), in Grenoble, France, and in Hamburg, Ger. He went to work as an interpreter for a French shipping company, writing in his spare time articles about exotic ports of call and life aboard ship. He submitted travel articles to French and Hungarian newspapers, and his evident love of adventure and flair for languages (he spoke five) soon brought him work as a travel correspondent and editor in Prague (1930–33) and London (1934–38). His first book, 1936—On the Continent, was a best-seller in Europe and the United States. Fodor was on a business trip in the United States at the outset of World War II, and he remained there, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1942 and serving in the U.S. Army's intelligence unit for five years. In 1949 he settled in Paris and founded Fodor's Modern Guides, Inc., to publish detailed, easy-to-understand travel guides to specific countries. He returned to the United States in 1964, and many of the later Fodor guides were written about the United States. Fodor sold his company in 1968.

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Источник: Fodor, Eugene

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