EYEWITNESS TRAVEL
AMSTERDAM
EYEWITNESS TRAVEL
AMSTERDAM MAIN CONTRIBUTORS: ROBIN PASCOE CHRISTOPHER CATLING
CONTENTS HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE 6 PROJECT EDITOR Heather Jones ART EDITOR Vanessa Hamilton EDITORS Peter Adams, Sasha Heseltine, Fiona Morgan, Alice Peebles, Nichola Tyrrell US EDITOR Mary Sutherland DESIGNERS Emma Hutton, Erika Lang, Malcolm Parchment CONTRIBUTORS
Paul Andrews, Hedda Archbold, Marlene Edmunds, Pip Farquharson, Adam Hopkins, Fred Mawer, Alison Melvin, Kim Renfrew, Catherine Stebbings, Richard Widdows
Model boat at Scheepvaart Museum
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Max Alexander, Rupert Horrox, Kim Sayer ILLUSTRATORS
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Front cover main image: Canals in the Singel district
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