Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to Interpreting Historic House Museums. These respected museum professionals consider the history of house museums and the need to look at familiar issues from new perspectives and using new methods. If your site isn't using a comprehensive interpretive plan, how can you create one? While doing so, how do you address contemporary issues like race and gender? Don't forget the physica...

For many years, Connie Huebner has been investigating the deeper reaches of consciousness, and in her explorations she has developed a direct communication with the Divine Mother of the Universe. Divine Mother has asked Connie to share the Tools that she uncovered in her own personal adventure with Mother God. Divine Mother wants a personal relationship with each of you. Working with these Tools brings about deep healing as well as a profound connection to Divine Mother. Thousands of peopl...

Located 2,400 kilometres from the southeastern coast of Africa, Mauritius is an island nation and tourist paradise in the Indian Ocean. It is part of the Mascarenhas Archipelago along with Rodrigues Island and French Réunion, sharing with them a common geologic origin. The official language in Mauritius is English with French being in more common everyday usage. Dotting the Indian Ocean to the south of the Indian subcontinent, the Maldives is a group of over a thousand tiny islands and ato...

Creating tours that are interesting and educational for visitors (and guides!) is a challenge every historic site faces. Great Tours! helps you focus clearly on the material culture and significance of your site and then shows you how to use that focus to train and energize your guides. You will be able to move your tours to a fresh new level that is engaging and educational for visitors of all ages and abilities.Readings and workshop activities frame the process throughout...

Morocco is a sunshine-rich, North African tourist destination with a peaceful mix of religions, cultures and age-old traditions. Morocco is geographically close to southern Spain but its culture and religious traditions transport the visitor far from Europe. The country has endured years of French and Spanish colonialism and its heritage. Morocco’s imperial city of Marrakech is characterised by its fortified walls and is known as "the rose city" because of the red earth and colou...

Cairo is Egypt’s capital city and is the largest city in both Africa and the entire Arab world. The historic Pyramids are located in the suburb of Giza. The city has a population of 19 million and downtown Cairo is the city’s modern day hub with streets lined with cafés, restaurants, and shops. On the southern tip of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula lies one of the most popular tourist destinations in North Africa and the Arab world. Sharm el-Sheikh has a sunny Red Sea location and is called...

Located in the shadow of Table Mountain, Cape Town is the second largest South African city and is over 350 years old. This is Africa’s most southern city and is close to both the vineyards of the Cape Winelands and to the Cape of Good Hope. The South African people sometimes call Johannesburg Egoli, the City of Gold. This is a reference to the gold mines that lie beneath the city and to the heady Gold Rush that led to the city’s founding in the late 1800s. Johannesburg offers you the oppo...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Cape Town, South Africa.Cape Town is the second largest city in South Africa and is the capital of the Western Cape Province, as well as being the legislative capital of South Africa. It is located in the south-west corner of the country near the Cape of Good Hope, and is the most southern city in Africa. It is a stone's throw from South Africa's world-famous Cape Winelands around Stellenbosch, Paarl and Franschhoek.Cape Town is...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Marrakech, Morocco.Marrakech, also known as Marrakesh, is one of the imperial cities of Morocco. It is the third largest city in Morocco after Casablanca and Rabat, and lies near the foothills of the snow capped Atlas Mountains and a few hours away from the foot of the Sahara Desert. Its location and contrasting landscape has made it a enviable destination in Morocco.The city is divided into two distinct parts: the Medina, the h...

The Seychelles are a group of 115 islands, only a few of which are inhabited. The archipelago is situated northeast of the island of Madagascar and east of mainland Africa in the Indian Ocean. Mahé is the largest and most developed of the Seychelles islands. The capital, Victoria, is home to about 90% of the Seychelles’ population. The other two main islands are Praslin and La Dique.TABLE OF CONTENTS: Welcome to the Seychelles - Culture - Seychelles Map - Location & Orientation - C...

In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’s move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge–and nothing is as easy as it seems….Inspired by the Moroccan vacations of his childhood, ...

Many are discovering the up-and-coming vacation destination of Cape Verde, a sunny island archipelago south of the Canary Islands. It's a perfect all-season holiday vacation destination and one of the only short-haul destinations for Europeans to guarantee winter sun.Table of Contents:Introduction to Cape VerdeClimateRegions- Santo Antão- Boa Vista- São Vicente— Mindelo— Mindelo Walking Tour- Sal- Fogo- M...