European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse News from the publishers by Linda White travel editor went window shopping at the Frankfurt Book fair last month an found a number of items of interest to travellers. New on the Market and travel Ware computer programs from Langenscheid and Baedeker. Langenscheid Are the folks who brought out a pocket calculator translator a few years ago. The software is compatible with Apple ii. La plus lie and lie. There Are several language Ware programs. The first. Vocabulary on the attack is a fast action word game in which a vocabulary of 2,000 words flashes across the screen. Survival depends on How fast the user can select the Correct translation. The program comes in Spanish French. German and latin. The second is on target a hot or miss word Matching game. It comes in the same four languages. Rebound is a word fill in game designed to expand idiomatic understanding and Sharpen language sensitivity. It comes in Spanish and French. The conclusion is a detective word game track Down the mystery word. It is available in Spanish Only. The vocabulary programs Are Good Tor Ages Hup. Baedeker s travel Ware teaches the user How to act properly in the most common critical situations travellers encounter in France Germany Mexico or Japan. Graphics Folk songs and sound effects put the user into the situation and Challenge him to decide what is the Correct behaviour. Each of the our programs is available in English. Langenscheid also has several lines of foreign language dictionaries Lilliput to fat encyclopedic and language cassettes. Baedeker has a Complete line of country and regional guide books in the Handy a a format. Passport books also has a Complete line of travel and language aids. In addition to regular foreign language dictionaries mini to Maxi. One of the handiest books is the International traveler s phrasebook. It gives the Basic words Lor travel accommodation coping with emergencies camping and shopping plus a special illustrated Section of automotive terms that the Driver will find indispensable in 10 languages. Passport also has the Lover s dictionary and the insult dictionary in five languages each. Then there is the British american language dictionary. The phrase books Are the just enough series in Spanish French German. Italian. Japanese portuguese greek dutch and Serbo croat. There is also a Multi Lingual phrase Book. The listen and learn cassette programs come in Spanish French. German. Italian and greek. Passport hit jut us a Over the entire line 35 books of the Learned Nagel s guides and reduced their prices. They now Cost from $20 to $40. Its at its Best series covers Spain Italy Germany and Hawaii. The format is easy to follow the main Toi St towns Are listed in alphabetical order. Each is briefly discussed As to background Lay of the land places to stay places to eat and entertainment. Hotels and restaurants tend toward the luxury to High moderate class. The information is basically sound but there Are a few slips. For example in the Germany guide under walking the Walls at Rothenburg of Der Tauber the Book says. No other cities save York England and Luca Italy have walkable How could they forget Dubrovnik Berlitz was there with pocket sized guidebooks to almost everywhere More than 80 destinations plus companion phrasebooks and language cassettes. Michelin has brought out a new Green guide England the West country plus new maps Lor Ireland Paris and two Reglo nals or Spain. They Excel in French maps of course with 35 area and 15 regional maps that Mark every Pigtail one could wish to drive Down. New this year is the France regional planning map which shows superhighways gasoline spec. 4 Randall Chotei travel and language Boultt. Photo by Linda w. So irks stations Etc. Mapmakers galore were at the Lair. Bike and wandering maps irom Ravenstein cities of the whole world irom Falk whose distinctive style leads some to believe that the maps Are torn and topic maps irom pro discussing physical and economic features of a variety of countries. This is just a sampling and not to be forgotten is the . Government printing office. Travel is not its mainstay to be sure but it has some Handy booklets such As health information Lor International travel and pocket guides designed especially for the military Community for Germany the Low countries. Portugal and the United kingdom. Catalon and order forms Are available irom superintendent of documents . Government printing office dept. 33, Washington . 20402. The stars and stripes bookstores carry Many of the items mentioned above among them the Langenscheid dictionaries Baedeker Berlitz passport and Michelin guides. They also Stock Langenscheid language cassettes along with the Crown series. Michelin maps. Nagel s guides listen and learn cassettes and the International traveler s phrasebook Are available on the Economy. Two Best finds in guidebooks maps t he two Best finds of the Frankfurt boo fair speaking of travel were a Book called train guide Europe and the picture map published by the German firm Bollmann Bil Karten Verag. The Book is a Canadian publication by George Pandl who spent three months travelling through Europe by train. He covered More than 25,000 Miles from Helsinki to Lisbon and Back again visiting 57 stations in 15 countries. I made the trains my bedroom and the stations my hotel he said. He slept in Couch ettes and checked his baggage at left Luggage while he did his research. The result is the most practical guide for train travellers hive in. It maps major railway stations and does not. Neglect a discussion of the airports important for getting Here in the first place. It clears up the mysteries of How to Road a train schedule. It also gives a travel vocabulary in every major Western european language. up for packing planning finding information. He discusses the great routes the paths that travellers followed before there were rails before the tracks became the routes of the great trains. Hber 13,1985 each country gets a rail map a description of the National railway and pages for the major cities with essential information about local transport. The discussion of rail passes is accurate and up to Date. Perhaps this is because Pandl is not a train Buff. I have never taken a nostalgic ride with photo opportunities he says. In sum my interest in trains is that they Are Good transportation 1 feel they Are the Only civilized Way to it has a Good Point one that All dyed in the Wool train travellers will applaud. Unlike planes or buses where you sit with elbows stuck in your own or your neighbor s ribs trains give room to shift stretch lean prop up your Leet and read or walk around. A railway car is a Mobile living or dining room and bedroom not just a Metal cocoon to convey people and Pandl does t waste space telling you what to see once you get where you re going. As he notes plenty of guidebooks do that. What he does is Tell you everything you need to know about getting there the easy Way. If you travel by train this is the one guide you will want to take along. The oilman picture Mipe a a literally works of Art. Drawn to scale with the perspective of someone on the ground it takes one to two years to produce one map. So far the firm has mapped 70 towns and cities mostly in Germany but including new York City. Today the firm s three artists work from both Aerial and ground photos. They needed 70,000 pictures of new York City 30,000 to map Frankfurt. A far cry from the time in 1948 when the founding Herr oilman walked through the rubble of Post War Braunschweig painting what he Taw. The map he made from those paintings became the first oilman picture map quite different from the updated version of the modern City. Each map is updated every live years. Among the maps Are Jerusalem Copenhagen Zurich Munich Stuttgart Cologne Nornberg Trier and Mainz. The firm employs Only 12 people has its own plane and camera car and does Complete production. Oilman owns the copyright for this Type of map. The maps include every building tree and Street. With them it is almost impossible to get lost. Train guide Europe is available in a number of English language bookshops in Europe and in great Britain. The oilman maps can be found in bookstores in major German cities As Well As in shops and tourist offices in the cities and towns that Are mapped. . The stars and stripes Page 15
