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.Insight Guide Thailand (Insight Guides Thailand)
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from: Langenscheidt Publishers

2002-03
This book provides a good handy reference guide, but don't expect to use it as your travel guide, it's more of a supplement. It's certainly more interesting than the text dense Lonely Planet I've got. If you enjoy a little more vivid detail about the place your going, this is a good choice.
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.Insight Guide Burgundy (Insight Guides Burgundy)
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by: Rosemary Bailey

1998-04
This has been and is a very good guide to Burgundy giving good insights and details of all the different regions. I believe you can only get it used and personally I think it needs to be re-published. I am a professor and taking a group of students to the area, and it's the best guide specifically to the Burgundy I could find (covering culture, history, and current locations of interest). Maps are helpful as well as details about places. It could be laid out a little more helpfully in a bullet point fashion in some areas but for the most part it's worth a "look-over" if your headed to that region.
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.Insight Guide Washington, DC (Insight Guides)
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from: Insight Guides

October 15, 2008
This has been and is a very good guide to Burgundy giving good insights and details of all the different regions. I believe you can only get it used and personally I think it needs to be re-published. I am a professor and taking a group of students to the area, and it's the best guide specifically to the Burgundy I could find (covering culture, history, and current locations of interest). Maps are helpful as well as details about places. It could be laid out a little more helpfully in a bullet point fashion in some areas but for the most part it's worth a "look-over" if your headed to that region.
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.Insight Guide Israel (Insight Guides Israel)
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by: Pam Barrett

1999-05
I took the Essential Guide to Israel along with me on a recent trip to Israel. The trip that I took was an organized group with pre-determined tours and hotels, so I did not need detailed information on selection of restaurants and accommodations. This particular book was easy to carry, and provided me with the basic information that I wanted to review in advance of touring sites. It lacks in-depth detail in all areas, so is good as a supplemental source for the first time Israel traveler, and helpful in the labeling of photos after the trip is over. Can't be beat as a nice overview for a reasonable price.
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.Insight Guide Morocco (Insight Guides Morocco)
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by: Dorothy Stannard

2000-12
I am an American who has lived in Marrakesh, Morocco for the past 13 years. I buy every new Moroccan guide book, written in English, that I see (just out of curiosity, to see what's new, or updated).

This book immediately grabbed my attention, when I saw it for sale in Marrakesh. It has the BEST pictures of any guidebook that exists on Morocco, and it has LOTS of pictures. It also has the BEST history section I have seen in any of the Moroccan guide books. Most of the guide books' history sections absolutely put you to sleep, and make the history so complicated it is really hard to follow. After 13 years, I was SO pleased to read the history section, and have it make Moroccan history COME ALIVE (I am also a history teacher by profession), ... Read More:
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.Insight Guide Provence & the Cote D'Azur (Insight Guides Provence)
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by: Brian Bell

2001-10
This remains my favorite to Provence. We've been going there since 1997 and we keep using each new revised edition of Fincham's guidebook. His advice on what to do and which places to seek out is spot on. We've been to Provence enough to have tried alternative to his suggestions and each time we confirm that we should have done what he suggested instead of the alternatives we tried. On this trip we used Fincham's chapter to guide our first visit to Cassis. Following Fincham's advice we arrived in time to find parking, get tickets for a calanques boat trip, and make a lunch reservation at one of his recommended fish restaurants on the port. We felt smug as others were turned away from the full restaurant and then had to stand in line for the overbooked ... Read More:
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.Insight Guide Korea (Insight Guides)
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by: Tom Le Bas, Tom Le Bas

February 15, 2001
My husband and I travel and live all over Asia and we love the Insight Guides and the DK guides. When we first started traveling we would buy the lonely planet and the insight or DK guide. But we found that we never used the lonely planet. We found it was far too detailed and had out of the way places that we weren't interested in. The Insight guides sift through all of the sights and show the best ones. We have never been disappointed with the information in the guides. While we were living in the countries and traveling veraciously we still didn't have time to visit all of the places in the Insight guide. The Insight guides have all the highlights are enjoyable to read and provide enough details for us to make all the hotel and flight reservations. ... Read More:
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.Insight Guide Sweden (Insight Guides)
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by: Jane Hutchings

2003-01
This book is something you'd want to read before going to Sweden, rather than lugging it along with you. However, it did have the best map of Stockholm in it of all of our travel books. You can usually pick up a decent map for free, though, when you get there in the back of the booklet that comes with a Stockholm Card.

The information in the book is great for getting more familiar with Sweden and Swedes, but not being a native-born Swede, I can vouch for its accuracy. It seemed pretty good to me, though.
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.Insight Guide USA the New South (Insight Guides)
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by: Brian Bell

2004-06
I was born in Tennessee, grew up in South Carolina and lived in Georgia for five years before relocating to Ohio. I bought the Insight Guide To The New South to quell that occasional twinge of homesickness and to learn more about one of my favorite areas in the world.

It is a beautiful looking book, as are all of the Insight Guides. Fantastic full color photos and detailed maps fill the book and the editors do a reasonable job of briefing you on the history and culture of the South. The text is your standard travel guide fare -- light sometimes flowery descriptions that cover most of the must-see destinations of each state.

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.Insight Guide French Riviera (Insight Guides French Riviera)
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by: Brian Bell

2001-10
I was born in Tennessee, grew up in South Carolina and lived in Georgia for five years before relocating to Ohio. I bought the Insight Guide To The New South to quell that occasional twinge of homesickness and to learn more about one of my favorite areas in the world.

It is a beautiful looking book, as are all of the Insight Guides. Fantastic full color photos and detailed maps fill the book and the editors do a reasonable job of briefing you on the history and culture of the South. The text is your standard travel guide fare -- light sometimes flowery descriptions that cover most of the must-see destinations of each state.

There are a few problems, though. The hotel and restaurant listings are so incomplete that you wonder why they even ... Read More:
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