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- ISBN13: 9780756660635
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
DK Eyewitness Travel’s full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations.
DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a preparation tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip.
Each guide is packed with the up-to-date, reliable destination information every traveler needs, including wide hotel and restaurant listings, themed itineraries, lush photography, and copious maps.
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I ordered this book because we are spending four days in Paris this summer. I felt this book had too much information for the average person who never vistited. It divided the sites by regions or areas. Since I have never been to Paris I do not know one region from the additional. I really just wanted some reference as to what to see in a fleeting period of time. This book has a lot of information but too much for me to cypher. This is not the book for a name who is taking a fleeting trip. If you want the history,maps and hundreds of places to chiose from then this is the book for you. But it does have some useful information in the back regarding public transportation and lots of photos. I will be returning this book and buying the top ten destinations as a replacement for.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
BEWARE of this 2010 Printing, the pictures an illustrations of this edition lack plain colors, I own several additional EYE WITNESS guides and all are printed with very excellent quality and brilliant plain colors, fantastic guides, but this one it’s not, maybe its a printing defect of this edition or perhaps they are going “green” using less ink ???, I dont know, but I would stay away of this particular 2010 printing.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a very excellent guide with lots of explanations on history, geography, etc. for persons who really want to learn about Paris. As with additional EyeWitness guides, sites indicate if there is a metro line, but they never tell you which line it is so you have to look at it in a metro map (same holds for London, Berlin, New York, Madrid, etc.)
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I must start with full disclosure – any time I travel, I permanently look to see if there is a DK Eyewitness Travel guide for my destination. I was won over years ago by their Roman guidebook while living in the Eternal City. In addition, I have used the books for Madrid and Sicily with fantastic success. I came to the Paris guidebook with high expectations, which were exceeded by its quality.
The guide starts with a brief overview of Parisian history. Next, it covers fourteen of the city’s districts – the Ile de la Cité and the Ile St-Louis, the Marais, Beaubourg and Les Halles, the Tulieries, St-Germain-des-Prés, the Latin Quarter, the Jardin des Plantes, the Luxembourg Quarter, Montparnasse, Invalides and the Eiffel Tower Quarter, Chaillot, the Champs-Elysées, the Opéra Quarter, and Montmarte. There is also a section about some outlying areas.
The thing I like most about this series of travel guides is the amount of information that is agreed. For the novice, there is probably too much “stuff” packed into this guide. There are many sites and cultural tips that one could not hope to see in a week-long trip. It would be simple to be overwhelmed. This is also not the guide for persons who want to study the life of the modern Parisian. Although it provides a lot of info, this guide does not do much more than scratch the surface.
There are persons travelers who fall in between the novice and the expatriate, such as myself, the “Joe Friday” type – “Just the facts, ma’am.” When I travel, I prefer to walk around a city until I’m lost. Then, and ONLY then, will I pull out my guidebook. As with the additional DK Eyewitness Travel guides, I can whip this book out, find the section of the city in which I am lost, and find out one or two appealing things about everything around me. Armed with this small bit of information, I can choose whether I want to find out more by asking the locals. Invariably, when I have chose I am “done” with being lost, the brilliant maps in this book get me back to wherever I want to be in a snap.
This book is well worth the cash. It will make of your trip an experience to remember!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5