Which is your favorite guide book?

Originally Posted by machadinha

<cross-posted with Ed> That reminds me Federica, there used to be a great German series called Anders Reisen ("travel differently"). It's gone defunct though I believe. A decidedly alternative and leftist series, offered great info on local social history and so on, or at least the titles I've seen, including for my own town. That guide was very accurate. Plus just decent information of the kind any tourist would need. No idea if they had an India title.

I think they were published by Rowohlt. If I'm not mistaken (and I may well be with another publisher), this was the series that for their Thai guide at some point reportedly announced that look, we've now covered the basic islands, now it's up to you to discover the rest, we won't send you to inundate ever more obscure places.