Travel: Where to Go When
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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