This book brings to focus the sights of Amsterdam with brief descriptions of museums and attractions, restaurants and bars, nightlife, city parks, and "coffee shops" or soft drug cafes of Amsterdam. Vibrant and beautiful photos of the scenes and sights of Amsterdam enhance the descriptive content of this book.
    Amsterdam's 400 museums and galleries are some of the finest in Europe, and provide an awesome diversity of subjects and disciplines from the fine arts to the sublime and the ridiculous and bizarre. Food and drink is a mainstay of the local economy with 1500 cafes, bars, and restaurants.
    The city was built around and in water. Canals encircle and crisscross the city, historically providing the predominant means of transportation. Bicycles and buses are now are the main modes of cross-town travel, however the ambiance and atmosphere of the canals offer the romance of times past as well as offering an alternative to congested traffic and limited parking.

ECOTOURISM   This book serves to promote the global policies of ecotourism. Ecotourism may be defined as travel to natural or cultural sites which informs the visitor, conserves the site, and benefits the local economy.

This Book Includes:
  A Beautiful tour of the Features, Activities, Museums, Coffee Shops, and Parks of Amsterdam.
  A guide to Food, Shopping, and the Nightlife of Amsterdam.
  Maps of Downtown Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Tram, and Amsterdam Coffee shops.
  The cost of the book is $9.95 US. It is available from the publisher by immediate download, or by direct mail on CD or Flash Drive in Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word format (with additional shipping and handling charges).

About The Author:
The author has brought together his skills as a career graphic artist, photographer, and publications designer to produce comprehensive and useful travel and recreation guides with technical prowess. The author's passion and creative insight in discovering and experiencing nature, the environment, national and regional parks, and wildlife from the active reader's perspective should encourage enthusiasm and anticipation in the reader through his writing.
   Our natural and scenic wonders are to be "discovered and experienced by everyone", and his "what to see and what to do" writing style and format is born from the thirst to experience and discover the world around him.
   Over the years, Mark has operated as a patent draftsman, and contracted as a technical illustrator and book and magazine designer for the National Academy of Sciences. In 2003 Mark authored and published this first book, "Discovering the C&O Canal", the definitive resource and activities guide for one of our country's beloved National Historical Parks, located in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.