The Rough Guide to Las Vegas

Rough Guides, 2011. — 223 p.Shimmering from the desert haze of Nevada like a latterday El Dorado, Las Vegas is the most dynamic, spectacular city on earth. At the start of the twentieth century, it didn’t even exist; one decade into the 21st, it’s home to two million people. A showcase for all that’s most extravagant and exuberant about the modern United States, it attracts almost forty million visitors each year, anticipating their every appetite and indulging their every whim.