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UK Holidays - London (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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List Price: $25.00
Our Price: $7.95
Your Save: $ 17.05 ( 68% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: DK Travel
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Binding: Turtleback
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.210486
EAN: 9780789493835
ISBN: 0789493837
Label: DK Travel
Manufacturer: DK Travel
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2003-01-31
Publisher: DK Travel
Studio: DK Travel
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Editorial Reviews:
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Eyewitness Travel Guides are the original illustrated travel guidebooks-and they're still the best. Since 1993, the Eyewitness brand has established itself as one of the industry leaders, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Featuring more than 70 worldwide destinations, new titles are being added to the best-selling Eyewitness Travel Guides series each year. In 2003, to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of Eyewitness Travel Guides, DK is re-launching the entire series, fully updated, and with a brand-new look.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Mostly Useful For Whetting Your Travel Appetite
Comment: Although it could function as a take-along guidebook for the vacationer, I think other guides are better for that purpose. What this Eyewitness book does do very well is make you want to go see the places it shows in beautiful pictures and stirringly descriptive text. I love these books, own most of them that have been released, and have referred to this and other titles in the series over and again to see the famous places I've wanted to visit. Helpful, fun, a nice read, less practical than other selections on the market.
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Summary: travel books
Comment: simple the best and not to miss for a visit in London,you don't have to take photo's they are already in the book
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Summary: Smart, User-Friendly Guidebook Has Legs After Your Trip to London
Comment: From Lonely Planet to the Rough Guides, location-specific guidebooks generally seem so transient since a purchase generally depends upon an upcoming trip and soon afterward ends up in a storage box collecting dust or on craigslist for sale. That's not to say they don't have valuable information when you need them, but there is no incentive to return to the book once the trip has ended. The one exception to the rule is the series of Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness Travel Guides. The London guide is as good as any in the series as it presents a graphically pleasing, intuitively organized guidebook with detailed pictorials that show animated aerial shots of neighborhoods like Covent Garden or cut-away floor plans of heavily visited buildings like Westminster Abbey or the Tate. It also helps make geographic sense of neighborhoods that allow you to navigate easily through them by pointing out recommended sights.
The first part of the book presents a timeline history of London that is both interesting and useful, as events are cross-referenced to sights you would want to see there. There is a well-presented survival guide toward the end of the book that highlights important travel information as well as recommendations on where to stay, shop and eat. Moreover, there is a comprehensive street finder of central London which helps you navigate without the inconvenience of fold-out maps. All the information is contained within a user-friendly, laminated paperback format that slips easily into backpacks and holds up well against inclement weather (a particular plus in rainy London). For all its obvious benefits, the one that has the most resonance to me is the fact that the book makes a fine keepsake of the trip afterward given its colorfully glossy quality. Even though the price is on the higher end of such guides, it is well worth it for its lasting value after your trip.
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Summary: A Must Have
Comment: We only spent a few days in London but this book helped us to plan which sights we'd have time to see. It also has a great map of the tube which helped us, more than once, find our way around Central London. A Must Have!
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Summary: The travel book you really need!
Comment: I have many travel books for London but I have to say this is the best. Updated frequently, it contains a vast amount of information. I found the book to be very acurate with opening times and ticket prices for events, as well as travel directions. If you have never been to London before, you will appreciate the back section of the book which covers the basics (using a payphone, the different coins and notes, airport and train iformation etc). Even though I know London very well now, I still find the book very useful when planning a day out. The photography is amazing as well! This is a must have!
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