Something that offers basic information or instruction

Usage examples of guidebook.

Geneva Bible continued to hold its position in English affections, at least partly because it was so useful for its notes and appendices, a guidebook to the world of the divine.

Tucking the guidebook under her arm, Gamay stepped over the mangy black Labrador retriever stretched out in a deathlike sleep on the rickety front porch and pushed the door open.

Given the apotheosis of private transport all around him, Kraft finds it hard to credit the shrill fact beloved of the guidebooks, that Angel City once possessed the most extensive urban transit system in the country.

Though not so popular as Giza and Sakkara, it is mentioned in the guidebooks.

Achmed, who was sulking, had haughtily withdrawn himself, so the rest of them pooled their memories and guidebooks, and found that the tablet was a copy of the cuneiform alphabet of Ras Shamra, one of the oldest alphabets in the world.

The guidebooks and robots said that this Uhaon river had been christened the Nile, after one of the most famous streams on Earth, because it flowed a long way, south to north, through the most desertlike stretch of land anywhere on this garden planet.

She passed the tiny kiosks that sold guidebooks to the pleasure districts.

Some still displayed souvenirs and guidebooks to the pleasure district or hand-colored prints of actors and courtesans.

Like most guidebooks, this one was instantly out of date, but the reference to Yuma had some interest.

The Copelands tried hard to distract themselves, Drake with his guidebooks, his repositories of fun facts, assuming the role of color commentator on this trip, pleasure for him residing in the activity of seeing a thing, then reading about it, or reading, then glancing up to see what you have just read, the equation between word and object seemingly real and direct, knowledge was instantly practice, and vice versa.

Since no guidebook of Rome indicates its existence in that city already so crowded with statues, tourists do not know about it.

A Gothic design one architectural guidebook calls 'a bastardised blend of truncated Pearsonesque Normandy Gothic and facetious, ill-proportioned Lombardy'.

He raised a finger at the bartender, who regarded him with stolid hostility, and ordered in schoolboy French a small bottle of Vichy water, carbonated, without ice, and, out of deference to the guidebook, a glass of hot mint tea.

There he had seen what was on display of the 1400 great patristic and historical codices, marvelled at the vast library, the treasures, the evidence of long custodianship of Western culture, gained some understanding of what the Benedictine Rule had meant in bringing discipline to intellectual life, sensed the reluctance of the monks of the Middle Age to destroy Greek manu­scripts which they did not comprehend and suspected of intellectual enormity -- had learned indeed what could be learned from guidebooks and guides who were talking to tourists who could not be expected to understand or sympa­thize with much of what Monte Cassino had meant in creat­ing the North American life of which they were proud, but unthinking, partakers.

Unfortunately, there weren't any, and she had to settle for a guidebook for all of Central Africa.