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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country’s Hidden Past
Customer Review: Revealing the past
This is a superb book and highly recommended for those with even a passing interest in the real Spain. The first chapters are hard going as they deal with some of the reality of the irrational horrors of a deeply divisive civil war. They are, however, a necessary foundation for the joys of the later chapters of this book. Whether discussing the inticracies of flamenco, or macho culture at its worst in attitudes to brothels or the wonderful (and accurate) description of the attire of middle class children in Spain’s big cities. Next time you are in Seville or Madrid during the PASEO you too will think you’ve travelled back to 1955 when you see little girls with big bows or little boys in their slicked back hair and sky-blue braces and shorts. Enjoy this book.
Customer Review: Another topic
I had high expectations from this book but now I can say that, if you want to read an interesting book about the recent history of Spain, go to “The new spaniards”, written by John Hooper.
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Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
Customer Review: Loved it!!.
This book is a influential look at Europe from an American writers [Bill Bryson] eye-view: how Europeans treat an American, see an American - and how an American sees Europe.
It is written in Brysons rich, Funny and intelligent style…oh! what can i say…i listened to the [Beach Boys] when reading the book, and now when i listen to the Beach boys - i crave to be reading another Bryson book…i’m just gonna buy all the ones i haven’t read yet and read them one after the other.
Read this book!.It’s fantastic and some of the stories made me laugh for hours after reading them…and i still laugh when i think about them to this day…highly recommended!!.
Customer Review: One of the better Brysons
I laughed out loud reading this - on the bus, in bed, all sorts of places. What more do you want from this sort of thing?
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The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World (Lonely Planet Pictorial)
Customer Review: A MUST have for all backpackers
Lonely Planet are famous for being in every backpackers back pocket, this book should be on every travellers coffee table! It gives a really brief but informative overview of each and every country, providing you with facts, best time to visit, some history, languages, phrases and all the other best bits, for example the cuisine on offer and some amazing photographs!
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Customer Review: Ideal Present
I got this book for my 14 year old nephew. As an introduction to the world it is an ideal present. As some reviewers mention there are probably more in-depth books out there but when you are trying to fit 230 countries into one book and include such wonderful photography there must be only so much you can include. As I say, an ideal present for anyone who just wants to learn a bit more about all the wonderful countries in the world. Ideal for the younger generation as there is just enough information in the book to keep their attention … which as most people will know can be difficult.
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New York Top 10 (Eyewitness Top Ten Travel Guides)
Customer Review: Best travel guides
To me these travel guides are the best you can get. It gets straight to the point, tells you enough history and the guide has a brillant, easy to use layout. I have a number of these for various cities and haven’t been disappointed yet.
Customer Review: Small, but full of useful information 
I visited NYC for the first time a few weeks ago. I took only three books about this city with me: this guide, the “Lonely planet NYC Guide”, and “The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide”. Truth to be told, this guide is probably the only one I couldn’t have done without.
“Top 10 New York” is an extremely useful small guide that doesn’t have as much information as the “Lonely planet NYC Guide”, but that has the essentials, and excellent fold out maps in color that are more easily understandable than those of other guides. I would like to highlight the fact that even though I am very absent minded, I could easily find my way in NYC thanks to those maps. And if I can, everybody will be able to do that!
From my point of view, this guide is ideal for those tourists that don’t have a lot of time, and want to see as much as possible during their visit to NYC (specifically Manhattan), if possible without a tourist guide. “Top 10 New York” points out quite a few places you simply must go to in the city, but also tells you about different neighbourhoods, and their history. There are many photos in color that help you to decide what you want to do, and historic data that allows you to learn about this city.
Moreover, most visitors will find the insider tips for tourists helpful, and the planned walks and itineraries a good option. Other useful sections in this guide are, for example, “Best shopping districts”, “Best hotels for every budget” (I found my hotel through Internet, though), “Best restaurants in each area” and “Most fun places for children”. What is more, “Top 10 New York” is almost pocket-sized, so you can carry it with you everywhere, even if your purse is tiny (not my case!), or if you have bought too many things and your handbag is rather heavy (yes, that often happens to me).
All in all, I am very happy I bought this guide, and I strongly recommend it to you
Belen Alcat
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Travel: Where to Go When
The Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel series are to be seen clutched in many tourists’ hands across the world, and rightly so. If Travel: Where to Go When (edited by Craig Doyle) is designed to be pored over at home rather taken en voyage that has allowed the publishers to produce a handsome, large-scale volume guaranteed to set you dreaming of exotic faraway places.
This is the perfect holiday planner, concentrating on the world’s most desirable travel locations, with specific attention paid to when it is best to visit them. The team of consultants (acting under Doyle’s expert direction) have provided a series of concise and informative essays on everything from the wonders of the Galapagos Islands to the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, and from the mule trails of the Cinque Terre to the highly civilised streets of Boston, USA. The latter destination is a good example of precisely what the book does well: pithy, not-a-word-wasted essays giving all the essential information on the destination, with a sidebar on the left of the page detailing how to get there, suggested accommodation and restaurants along with all the information about the weather you’re likely to need (the latter is particularly useful — how often have you seen abroad tourists either underdressed or overdressed, not having done their homework?). On the right hand side of the large, eye-catching spreads are historical details — never couched in dry prose, just a concise and lively presentation of the facts. A major plus, of course, is the sumptuous photography; everything from a brightly painted, flower-bedecked skeleton at the Mexican Day of the Dead to a glowingly lit night canal in Amsterdam does perfect justice to its subject. –Barry Forshaw
Customer Review: Travel: Where to go When
Thank you Dorling Kindersley for having produced this absolutely stunning new coffee table book! Rather like Lonely Planet’s `The Travel Book’ meets `The Blue List’ or `A Year of Adventures’ by Rough Guide, it fits wonderfully in to the `inspirational’ travel guide niche.
It’s the kind of book you can peruse at leisure & gain ideas for your next big adventure. Where to go & when the best time to do it is! With careful thought given to each country’s annual festivals & celebrations; animal migrations; summer or winter sports & most beautiful seasons to visit, not to mention being packed full of gorgeous photography that will have you drooling & reaching for your backpack.
The book is divided into months. Each month has an overview at the beginning & then the best activities are represented in full, each getting a two-page spread. There is a great mix of lesser-known places mixed with well-known must-do destinations, which almost makes you begin to calculate how many holidays you can afford to take this year if you cut out those pesky non-essentials like: food.
I especially appreciate that there are so many where & when’s for adventure sports enthusiasts. Generally there is a snowboarding/skiing, climbing or a diving activity for each month of the year for adrenaline junkies, like me.
Well done DK!
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Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: a Rough Guide to the World: 1000 Ultimate Travel Experiences (Rough Guides Reference Titles)
Let’s face it, for many of us, travel is one of the key factors in giving our lives meaning. We build our year around those precious few weeks when we can make our way to some exotic destination and experience things that are different from all that we normally encounter. With Make the Most of Your Time on Earth (subtitled a Rough Guide to the World), we are offered what the publishers claim are `1000 Ultimate Travel Experiences’. And those familiar with the Rough Guide catalogue will know that that is no idle boast. Within this arm-straining book, we are presented (at length) with the most exhilarating travel experiences the world has to offer. Every possible diversion is on offer here, from a cool and aesthetic appreciation of exquisite architecture to pulse-raising adventure holidays. With Rough Guide’s intrepid team of specialists (always seeing things from a different angle), one can trek the Ganges or go mountain biking on some of the world’s most treacherous roads in Bolivia.
Alongside the more physical adventures here, we are given the perfect guide to enjoying the ancient beauty of Venice as well as many experiences which are more off the normal tourist trail (such as snorkelling in Tanzania). The thoroughness of the book is as exhaustive as one could wish, with (for instance) fascinating detail on wildlife and festivals. And for those of us attempting to ensure that our holidays have an ethical dimension, such elements are treated with the thoroughness one would expect from this publisher. The sheer bulk of the book means that this is one for planning with rather than stuffing into a rucksack, but such pre-planning will be sheer pleasure. –Barry Forshaw
Customer Review: Yes, but how to do it and stay green?
As you might expect from the Rough Guide, this is a pretty dependable guide in terms of its facts and figures, although as with any ‘10/100/1000 ultimate’ experiences, it’s entirely subjective. Furthermore, there’s the added trouble nowadays of seeing something of the world without messing it up for future generations (and hey, our own too). Couple this with the vexed question of whether making the most of your time on earth is actually limited to going to see all the places everyone else goes to see, and you’ve got yourself into a bit of a hole. I personally got more out of the book “Places to Hide” by Dixe Wills which covers some more eclectic (and thus more intriguing) destinations within Britain that you can get to without hopping onto a plane - give it a whirl.
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Barcelona (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Customer Review: Beautiful book, beautiful city
I went to Barcelona recently, and in the planning of the trip I consulted four guide books:
Lonely Planet’s Barcelona City Guide
Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Barcelona and Catalonia
Cadogan Guides Barcelona (Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls)
Time Out Barcelona
All of them were good. I took two with me: Lonely Planet and Eyewitness.
The reasons I chose those two:
Eyewitness unfailingly has a good quality map, which in my view is LP’s downfall. Eyewitness always includes a Street Finder Index which LP does not, and LP often misses out on streets other than the major ones, which can be very frustrating, especially in a city like Barca where there are many alleyways. I never use Eyewitness for hotels - the information is scant and usually more expensive than my (more Lonely Planet) budget, but it has fantastic colour photos and cutaways of buildings, and illustrations which place buildings within their streetscapes. It’s a nice book to read on the bus or train going somewhere.
LP specialises in listings, which seemed to be more up-to-date and comprehensive than either Time Out or Cadogan, It also had a good Excursions section which helped a couple of times when I travelled beyond the city. I also liked a couple of the walking routes they recommended. Information on matters such as public transport is comprehensive and detailed. I like the chapters on history, architecture and food as well.
Time Out’s great strength was in helping to plan. It had a huge array of hotels, and if you were especially interested in nightlife, I would take Time Out. I was there primarily for a conference, and many of my evenings were organised. And I’m also night a great nightclubber, perhaps contrary to Barca lifestyle!! If you are - consider Time Out. Its maps were pretty good, but not comprehensive for the area I was staying in, beachside Barceloneta.
That is where the Cadogan guide excelled. Its maps were so good that I pulled them out of the book and took them with me. I would have taken the whole book, but for the weight in my suitcase! Its info about places and sights seemed accurate and comprehensive.
Customer Review: Barca guide
I like the DK books, especially for planning, the layout and pics are perfect. I did find being in Barca with the guide it was heavy and lacked details on history. I found the www.talkingtrip.com guide more insightful and practical. In fact both talkingtrip.com and this Eyewitness travel guide complement each other nicely, one for home, one for the actual trip.
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Florence and Tuscany (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Customer Review: Lots on Florence, some on Siena, less on other places..
Fair enough - the title lets you know what you’re getting, but those of us who only spent a day in Florence and the rest of the two weeks elsewhere might feel a bit short-changed. The street maps of Florence and Siena are excellent for getting a general idea of where you are, but not so good for actually finding a particular restaurant which the guide lists.
The ideal combination is this and the Lonely Planet guide to Tuscany, which is lighter on the pictures but much more detailed.
Customer Review: Brilliant
This is the best guide of Tuscany we have found so far to prepare our holiday, we have read other DK guides before and always been happy with the information they provide.
The chapter on accommodation is particularly useful.
The book consists of 336 beautifully illustrated pages with superb maps and street by street city plans with guide walks, it also has a road map in the back cover.
With a third of the guide is dedicated to Florence there is plenty of information on the main buildings, palaces and churches and features a large number of little villages in the countryside.
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Hong Kong (Eyewitness Top Ten Travel Guides)
Customer Review: Better than Lonely Planet, from a LP fan
I’ve always bought Lonely Planets before, whether i’m going somewhere for a long weekend or a month. So I got the Lonely Planet to HK, but this guide also caught my eye for its compact format.
And I have to say, it works much harder. Although it may look at first glance like one of those cheap airport Berlitz guides with photos of places from the 70s, its packed with information and written in a very consise, witty way. The ‘Top 10′ format could be a restriction but actually encourages the writers (of this guide anyway) to be selective.
Against this, the Lonely Planet seems much more long-winded and, with its new revised target market of more up-market vacationers and well as its core backpacking fraternity, much more like simply a directory of places to eat, drink, shop, sleep.
The detailed maps on each inside flap and each mini-map for places to eat and shop in each district are also very handy to refer to in the street without looking like a complete tourist, and much easier than the LP’s enless cross-referencing
Aside from a few absent practical facts (exact addresses, websites etc.) which is inevitable in a book less than a quater of the page count, this served me very well for a full week in Hong Kong and easy to slip into a small bag or, like me, your back pocket. So this book would be ideal for the majority of people who spend a few days there.
Customer Review: Good basic guide
Good basic guide, covers all the standard items with good text overviews and great little pictures. Well structured and overall very good.
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