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Eyewitness Travel Guides Great Britain by: Dorling Kindersley List Price: CDN$ 36.00 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 22.68 You Save: CDN$13.32 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Turtleback Dewey Decimal Number: 914.10486 EAN: 9780756615420 ISBN: 0756615429 Label: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. Number Of Pages: 720 Publication Date: February 10, 2006 Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. Studio: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. Sales Rank: 41853 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: You'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you'll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts, and even popular bus routes. Broken into several sections--"Introducing Great Britain," "Region by Region" (including London and environs, Scotland, and Wales), "Traveler's Needs," and "Survival Guide"--the guide paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will especially appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from London's double-decker buses to the ancient formations at Stonehenge. You'll also find street-by-street illustrated city walks (Covent Garden, Westminster), as well as scenic hikes in the Scottish highlands and the Lake District, with plenty of listings for inns and fish-and-chip taverns along the way. --Jill Fergus Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Worn it out with several trips, but still haven't tapped it's full potentialWe've used this guide book for: - Two trips to Scotland; - Multiple trips to London and surrounding areas, both for business and pleasure; - A recent trip to Oxford, with side trips to the Cotswolds, Windsor Castle et al. For sites to see, the DK guide books have excellent maps, points of interest and "star sights", their recommendation of places you must see. I've found their Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral sections in this book particularly well done, and the coverage of London plus maps have prevented us from having to purchase a separate London guide. The Blenheim Palace, Oxford University and Cotswolds section were very helpful on this last go round. Recommendation on places to stop and things to ... Read More: Rating:  - A nice idea but so very far from the truthFirst of all, for all those who are not familiar to the UK (Great Britain)the Britain this guide try to show you has not excisted since the end of the 1950's. The images are buetiful, in fact I will complement it on selling such a romantic vision of contemporary Britain. But alas this is all false. Verging on 99.9 percent of the UK's people have never eaten cream-cakes or had tea and crumpets with the Queen in Buckingham Palace, likewise nobody in the country speaks like the Queen (sorry to tell it like it is.) Roads are concrete and Burger King & McDonalds lurk in every town. I can say as a UK citizen that this guide is giving out mis-information. I would recommend reading this book if you are planning on visiting the countryside or a museum ... Read More: Rating: - A No Brainer Buy It - ExcellentBuy it! I travel and have 20-30 travel books. I discovered this series a few years ago and own a dozen in the series. What is really outstanding are the visuals in these books. They have lots of details - as do most good travel books - but the visuals are stunning. The color photos almost leap from the pages. Also there are lots of cultutal and historical facts with photos, cutaway drawings of famous buildings, and more. The historical part is excellent. Included are art galleries, churches, museums, special architecture, culture, political figures, maps, restautants all continuously updated so when you buy you get a current book not a book years old. A common feature in the series (Eyewitness) is an introduction at ... Read More: Rating: - AN ANGLOPHILE'S TEXT BOOKThis book covers everything. I'm especially impressed with the History of Britain section. It goes through each time period, prehistoric, norman, tudor, georgian, victorian, each illustrated with a beautifully drawn diagram of a building of that period and wonderful photographs of artifacts from the period. It has a section, also illustrated by photographs, of English food and dozens of easy to read maps. This is invaluable if you are traveling to Britain, but also precious to the person who isn't, as it virtually enables them to from their armchair. Rating: - Big book...lots of info!When I received this book in the mail, I was quite surprised at its size. It's thicker than some of the other Eyewitness travel books, but this should not discourage you! There is so much information that one can get very engrossed in reading and learning from it for hours on end. I found the maps extremely useful and the different sections divided up for easy referencing made locating places to eat, hotels to stay at, and things to see very quick and easy. What a wonderful guide! The pictures are superb and it really is a clever travel companion. I've found the Eyewitness travel books to be very smart and practical...a real asset to the frequent, casual, and even business traveler. I recommend it highly as a companion guide to other travel books ... Read More: |
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