This book in my opinion is biased and takes an angle of Europe that is “clean and proper” and fails to shed light on the rest of it. I can understand that these are “tourist guides” and why would anyone want to tour a country forgotten by time. However, I am a very disappointed Romanian with this book and would never use it as my reference. I have seen travel guides outlining Europe exclude Romania before, but with the precision and detail of DK’s series, I was left yet again in disappointment.
The Eyewitness Travel Guides in general provide lots of pretty pictures and are very nice, but if you want a handy, practical guide to TAKE WITH YOU on a trip you are much better off with the Rick Steves, Lonely Planet, Fodor’s, or Frommer’s series of travel guides. The other guides provide much better info on logistics like where to stay, where to eat, and transportation. Eyewitness (DK Publishing) makes great coffee table books, and that is what this book is. I recommend Rick Steves Best of Europe, or Lonely Planet’s Europe on a Shoestring if you want a more useful guide.
I love the pictures in this book and brief history of each country/culture at the beginning of each chapter. It is a great overview of European sites and helps us decide what’s most important for us to visit! I’m enjoying it very much. It’s not like a Rick Steves book, with in-depth reviews of each area, but it’s a great overall review for people like us who haven’t been to Europe yet and are trying to decide what we would like to see. Rick’s books are excellent for more in-depth visits, but this is great for first-timers trying to figure it all out.
it is a good book, which give you more information, photo, picutre, and image of all interesting places in europe… for the traveler I would like to suggest you to buy this book coupled with lonely planet… with both book you will have a complimentary information and give you more idea to select the best place to visit, and see….
This book was an excellent buy. I recently had a holiday in Europe and it never left my side. It is packed with information, pictures and maps and in fact people travelling with me kept borrowing it all the time and were going to buy it when they got home because it had all the information they wanted to show family and friends as to where they had been and what they had seen. Highly recommended.
This book in my opinion is biased and takes an angle of Europe that is “clean and proper” and fails to shed light on the rest of it. I can understand that these are “tourist guides” and why would anyone want to tour a country forgotten by time. However, I am a very disappointed Romanian with this book and would never use it as my reference. I have seen travel guides outlining Europe exclude Romania before, but with the precision and detail of DK’s series, I was left yet again in disappointment.
The Eyewitness Travel Guides in general provide lots of pretty pictures and are very nice, but if you want a handy, practical guide to TAKE WITH YOU on a trip you are much better off with the Rick Steves, Lonely Planet, Fodor’s, or Frommer’s series of travel guides. The other guides provide much better info on logistics like where to stay, where to eat, and transportation. Eyewitness (DK Publishing) makes great coffee table books, and that is what this book is. I recommend Rick Steves Best of Europe, or Lonely Planet’s Europe on a Shoestring if you want a more useful guide.
I love the pictures in this book and brief history of each country/culture at the beginning of each chapter. It is a great overview of European sites and helps us decide what’s most important for us to visit! I’m enjoying it very much. It’s not like a Rick Steves book, with in-depth reviews of each area, but it’s a great overall review for people like us who haven’t been to Europe yet and are trying to decide what we would like to see. Rick’s books are excellent for more in-depth visits, but this is great for first-timers trying to figure it all out.
it is a good book, which give you more information, photo, picutre, and image of all interesting places in europe… for the traveler I would like to suggest you to buy this book coupled with lonely planet… with both book you will have a complimentary information and give you more idea to select the best place to visit, and see….
This book was an excellent buy. I recently had a holiday in Europe and it never left my side. It is packed with information, pictures and maps and in fact people travelling with me kept borrowing it all the time and were going to buy it when they got home because it had all the information they wanted to show family and friends as to where they had been and what they had seen. Highly recommended.