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Insight Guide Finland (Insight Guides) by: Zoe Ross List Price: $23.95 City Travel Guides Price: $16.29 You Save: $7.66 (32%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914 EAN: 9789814120395 ISBN: 9814120391 Label: Insight Guides Manufacturer: Insight Guides Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 325 Publication Date: 2003-12 Publisher: Insight Guides Studio: Insight Guides Sales Rank: 40145 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Insight Guide Finland includes a section detailing Finland‘s history, 10 features covering aspects of the type's life and culture, ranging from A Wilderness Experience to Music and film, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus 14 mpas and many high quality photographs. Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Finland from PortugalGood value, well written and with pictures os good quality. And,...nice country. JA Rating: - Beautiful and clever guide to a beautiful countryAll too often, Finland has been unfairly treated by many snobbish travel writers - too clean, too expensive, too Northern. For many of those identifying Finland only with mobile phones, the history, the architecture and the landscapes of this brave, spectacularly handsome and exceedingly talented country is largely unknown. This guide tells the story and shows the pictures in a friendly, seemingly effortless and hugely informative way. The book - in common with other Insight Guide publications - is as beautiful as the cover picture suggests. They do not cut corners on buying top quality photos or commissioning informed articles, and it shows. The writing does not have the cynicism and grumpy attitude of shoestring-travel guidebooks: ... Read More: Rating: - An American in Helsinki says thumbs up!I lived in Helsinki for 4 months and traveled around a bit (to Kuopio, Karigasniemi and Ivalo, as well as eastward to St. Petersburg). This is the best guide to Finland I've seen in English. They give not only important tourist information (maps, restaurant and hotel recommendations, attractions, tips, etc.), but also great cultural and historical information that will help put all the tourist stuff in perspective for you. Finland can seem surprisingly foreign if you're expecting it to be just like Scandinavia or the rest of western Europe. But with a little help from the Insight guide you'll find it unique and exciting and beautiful rather than frighteningly different. Get ready for all the stereotypical pleasures (like the sauna and ... Read More: Rating: - Excellent Guide to a Fascinating CountryWith vivid descriptions of cultures and places, superb maps, expert historical discussions, and delightfully charming photographs from cover to cover, this guide offers the reader everything needed to visit this magnificent, magical country. |
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