Selected Product: | Peru (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) Paperback Author: DK Publishing Publisher: DK Travel Release Date: 2008-05-05 ISBN-10: 0756636450 ISBN-13: 9780756636456 List Price: $25.00 Average Customer Rating: | | Peru (Country Guide) ISBN-10: 1740597494 ISBN-13: 9781740597494 List Price:$22.99 The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour ISBN-10: 1555663273 ISBN-13: 9781555663278 List Price:$19.95 Brazil (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) ISBN-10: 0756628202 ISBN-13: 9780756628208 List Price:$30.00 Frommer's Peru (Frommer's Complete) ISBN-10: 0470257105 ISBN-13: 9780470257104 List Price:$21.99 Moon Peru (Moon Handbooks) ISBN-10: 1566919835 ISBN-13: 9781566919838 List Price:$21.95 |
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Continuing to expand our South American coverage, this beautifully illustrated Eyewitness guide will be the premier travel book to Peru, with complete coverage of Lima, the Amazon Basin, and, of course, Machu Picchu. Whether your interests lie in floating on Lake Titicaca, watching the condors soar at Colca Canyon or experimenting with South American cuisine, DK Eyewitness Peru will help you find the essence of the Andes. BEST TRAVEL GUIDES | Customer Rating: | EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDES are the best guides you could find. I've bought every one they have published to the places I have visited, and always know where I want to go and what are the most important places to visit, with the pictures and 3D images of the buildings and maps I don't get surprises as to visit a place not worth while. You optimize your travel time. I have about twenty of their guides, just hope they increase the places they review in the near future. | Excellent reference | Customer Rating: | | As other DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, this one is an excellent tool for travellers going to Peru,As usual , this issue is rich in photos and useful information | An excellent guide to a complex country | Customer Rating: | It's tough to pick the "best" guidebook for a particular destination, and the proliferation of free travel information on the web makes choosing "the one" even tougher. My wife and I always start with a copy of an EyeWitness guide for the destination: there are pictures on every page, and we find the images help us plan our trip: the guides are particularly good for architecture and art. The practical guides in the back provide a useful overview of currency, hotels and restaurants.
This guide to Peru is a particularly good example of the DK offerings: the images, paper, text, all are up to the high standards of other guides in the series. We returned from our trip to Peru two days after the Eyewitness guide arrived in the mail, so that we used two other guides during our trip. Reading EyeWitness at home reinforced our belief that the Eyewitness series is the best starting point for us.
Peru is a very complicated country, and Eyewitness does a superb job of describing that complexity in words and in pictures. Its treatment of Lima was particularly good -- we were lost in the details of the city as they appeared in the two other books we used on the trip, but Lima came to life clearly in the Eyewitness guide. (We thought that Peru Insight Guide (Insight Guides) was a very good guide for the reasons indicated in my review of that guide.)
Of course, you'll need more specific and detailed guides to many of the attractions: the Inca Trail if you choose to hike it, or Machu Picchu if you visit. But for a comprehensive and visually appealing overview, Eyewitness can't be beat.
Having written that, there is really only one page that usually matters in deciding whether to buy a guide book: the newer the guide the better. This book appeared in a fully revised American edition in May, 2008. That makes this guide very hard to beat for two or three years in our experience.
Note: DK maintains an excellent website at TravelDK , with updates on many of its guidebooks.
Robert C. Ross 2008 |
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