Customer Reviews

Eyewitness Travel Guide to Australia

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As an Australian, I recommend this for its accuracy and good, straightforward coverage of the country. It is annoying to read inaccuracies and clangers about your own country, and it is pleasing to note that this guide avoids that.

I have written in very glowing terms also about the Sydney guide.

These are guidebooks I prefer to use in travelling my own country, which is a great recommendation.

In preparation for our trip to Australia, we checked 4 Australian travel books out of the library. After reading them, this is the one that we thought was worth owning (definitely). If you want lots of facts, brief history, maps and beautiful pictures, we recommend this guide.

Pictures, references to specific historical and some lesser known places, explicit detail on mannerisms and etiquette--this book is everything that you would want out of a travel guide. DK has always done a wonderful job with their books, but this one has truly outdone all others!

Eyewitness continues to provide outstanding guides as seen in the recent guide to Australia. This book combines pictures, 3D Layouts of important buildings and museums, street maps of Sydney and Melbourne, plus a helpful section on accomodations and restaurants. For my money, eyewitness produces the best travel guides on the market.

This is a well written and nicely laid out and easy to use guide for Australia. I've used many of the different name-brand travel guides out there over the years, and the DK guides are fairly new to me, but I've been impressed with the ones I've seen.

One nice thing they do is there's a "useability page" where the different features of the guide are described on a two- page spread. This makes it easy to learn the special features of the guide and also to use it. This is a good idea and more guide publishers should do it.

The DK guides are always beautifully designed, with great photos and good use of space, text, and graphics on the page. They don't seem to cram too much or too little information onto a page.

The different regions of Australia are covered in alphabetical order, with color coded tabs at the top of the page so you can skip to the next one if you want without having to look in the index.

I was looking especially for information on Hobart and Tasmania, which most people seem to miss on their first trip to Oz, but I am planning on going there, and the section on that was very helpful.

No one book on a country as big and diverse as Australia can cover everything, but this guide is a great place to at least start your research and learn about the most important places and sights you want to see and visit.

The guide concludes with accommodations, restaurant recommentions, and advice for the traveller sections, including safety considerations (Australia is very crime free but the environment can be harsh and unforgiving), medical care, banking, driving, etc. Overall this is another fine guide book from DK.

I purchased this book on the recommendation of our travel agent. It is very disappointing. There is no information about any wildlife parks, such as the Koala Park near Sydney and others. I found much more information on the Internet. The companion book (the map book) may be more helpful - the map part - but it is very large and difficult to refold. I expect books for tourists to have information about areas to tour - and in Australia I think that wildlife parks must be mentioned. It is possible that the Internet will take over for travel books if writers don't provide information that tourists need.

I've seen many travel books, but the Eyewitness Travel Guide is in a class by itself! The pictures, maps, and illustrations are so vivid they give you the impression you're actually visiting Australia. This is more than a reference book--it's entertainment.

As a student traveling abroad for the 1st time with a delegation, this book has proved esential. Although I had other travel guides with me, this book was in constant use. The superb maps and pictures of my destination proved themselves as our group didn't get lost once. This guide is packed with information and i recomend it to anyone of any age. After my trip I continue reading this guide for more information, and I hope to go there again soon. 2 enthusiastic thumbs up

With its wealth of maps, I will certainly take along the book during my travels. As a person going to Australia for the first time, I feel that the book could provide a larger listing of lodging recommendations. If you want a book with lots of pretty pictures of the land, then this is the book for you. But if you need a book to help you plan your vacation, look elsewhere.