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navigation, search Assortment of guide books in Japan  A guide
book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place,
designed for the use of visitors or tourists".[1] Travel guides
can also take the form of travel websites.     A forerunner of
the guidebook was the periplus, an itinerary from landmark to
landmark of the ports along a coast. A periplus such as the
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was a manuscript document that
listed, in order, the ports and coastal landmarks, with
approximate intervening distances, that the captain of a vessel
could expect to find along a shore. This work was possibly
written in the middle of the 1st century CE.[2] It served the
same purpose as the later Roman itinerarium of road stops.  The
periegesis, or "progress around" was an established literary
genre during the Hellenistic age. A lost work by Agaclytus
describing Olympia (περὶ Ὀλυμπίας) is referred to by the Suda
and Photius.[3][4] Dionysius Periegetes (l