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Project Editor Heather Jones
Art Editor Lisa Kosky Introducing
Editors Ferdie McDonald, Carey Combe
Designers Louise Parsons, Nicki Rawson Prague
Contributors
Petr David, Vladimír Dobrovodský, Great Days in Prague 10
Nicholas Lowry, Polly Phillimore,
Joy Turner-Kadečková, Craig Turp
Putting Prague on
Photographers the Map 14
Jiří Doležal, Jiří Kopřiva, Vladimír Kozlík,
František Přeučil,
Milan Posselt, Stanislav Tereba, Peter Wilson The History of Prague 18
Illustrators
Gillie Newman, Chris Orr, Otakar Pok, Prague at a Glance 38
Jaroslav Staně
Prague Through
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A River View of Prague 56
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Title page Prague across the Vltava Front cover main image Church of Our Lady before Týn towering over the Old Town Square
Back cover image Panorama of Prague
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