Jeroen Van Bergeijk
JEROEN VAN BERGEIJK is a journalist based in Amsterdam and has written for The New York Times, Wired, and many other publications in Europe and the United States. From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara My Mercedes ... [... more]
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Frommer's Amsterdam
 A good, basic travel guide: I just took this book to Amsterdam. I found it to be very helpful. The books features maps dedicated to a single subject (such as a restaurant map, a hotel map, etc.). We used these extensively. The Frommer's Irreverent Guides [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Pete Jordan
Pete Jordan chronicled his adventures as a dishwasher on NPR's This American Life and in his underground zine Dishwasher, which amassed a following of nearly 10,000 readers. He moved to Amsterdam with his wife in 2002 and began a new life as a ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Nina Siegal
Nina Siegal received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Fulbright Scholar. She has written for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among other publications. She lives in Amsterdam. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Joaquin Dorfman
Sure, I could start with my birth: a cold February in Amsterdam back in 1979. I could tell you about my upbringing in North Carolina, schools attended both there and in Santiago, Chile. Then there're the New York years, both as an NYU student and ... [... more]
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Arthur Japin
Arthur Japin was born in Haarlem in 1956. He studied theater in Amsterdam and London and spent many years acting on stage, screen, and television. His first novel, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi, appeared in thirteen languages and is now being ... [... more]
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Ron Hotchkiss
It is July 1928, and Canada's first women's Olympic team - "The Matchless Six" - is heading to Amsterdam, the site of the ninth Olympiad of the modern era. Canada's finest female track-and-field athletes, having survived rigorous training and [... more]
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Daniel Cil Brecher
Daniel Cil Brecher is an independent historian living in Amsterdam. A former director of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, he has taught at Haifa University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His documentary films and exhibitions have ... [... more]
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Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges, & Brussels
Just returned....this guide helped make our trip wonderful!: This guide beats all others, hands down. We relied on it almost exclusively.....just returning from Holland and Belgium. The guide through the Rijksmuseum & van gogh in Amsterdam were super. [... more]
CDN$20.03
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Frommer's Amsterdam, 13th Edition
A good, basic travel guide: I just took this book to Amsterdam. I found it to be very helpful. The books features maps dedicated to a single subject (such as a restaurant map, a hotel map, etc.). We used these extensively. The Frommer's Irreverent Guides [... more]
CDN$17.05
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Let's Go Amsterdam Pocket City Guide: With Fold-Out Map
very helpful: relied on this map heavily while in Amsterdam and didn't have a single gripe about it. It's compact and sturdy and fairly easy to pinpoint the area you are wanting to find. Detailed map of Amsterdam with things and places to see.: Pretty [... more]
CDN$12.95
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Lonely Planet Amsterdam
Good list of cheap eateries: The value in "Lonely Planet Amsterdam" is in the thumbnail sketches of cafes and reasonably-priced restaurants. The descriptions of the establishments that I am familiar with were right on the money. They are [... more]
CDN$22.03
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