Customer Reviews

Frommer's Road Atlas Britain

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Out of print? Say it isn't so! This road atlas was a life saver on my last trip to England, in October 2000. I was looking for a comprehensive yet readable guide to England's roads, and Frommer's delivered. I had never driven in England before, and thanks to this atlas, I returned in one piece!

Frommer's atlas helped my wife and me to navigate an 8-hour journey from the Lyme Regis area to Oxfordshire, with sightseeing stops to Shaftesbury and Avebury. I think we made one wrong turn on the way - easily corrected and reversed, thanks to the atlas.

The maps are extremely readable, with motorways in bold green, A-roads in solid red, and B-roads in yellow. Minor roads are also shown, but presented in a way that doesn't clutter the map or confuse the reader. The atlas also includes a detailed key to Britain's road signs - an essential feature in my opinion, and one not always found in other atlases.

I haven't started my packing list for our next trip to England. But when I do, I know this atlas will be at the top of the list.

Should you be planning a trip in Great Britain by car, train, or bus, this atlas will help you. You're probably familiar with the Rand McNally US atlas; this is similar. You'll get distances between towns, size of cities, and symbols telling you points of interest. The copyright is 1999, but that shouldn't be a problem in getting you where you want to go. My husband and I are using it now to plan a trip next spring.

We just returned from a 3 week trip to Britain. We drove for 10 days and put about 1600 miles on our rental car. This atlas was excellent - a 5+ - the best, most comprehensive road map I've ever used. I was a little worried that it was last published in 1999 and it's now 2008, but the roads in Britain have moved very little in those intervening 9 years. We had never been to Britain before, nor driven on the "wrong" side of the road, nor learned the traffic signs. This atlas got us from London to Inverness - and we followed pretty much every road along the way on the atlas. It also taught us the various traffic signs. I would highly recommend this Atlas. dan