Greece Athens & the Mainland (Eyewitness Travel Guides) (Vinyl Bound)

by DK Publishing (Author)
Key Phrases: grave circle, Apostólou Pávlou, golden fleece, Road Map, Closed Sun, Peloponnese Road (more...)

Product Details

• Vinyl Bound: 352 pages
• Publisher: DK Travel; Revised Updated edition (January 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756626366
• ISBN-13: 978-0756626365
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 4.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,345 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice pictures, but not enough information, August 2, 2007

By	SuperSchtroumpf (Lyon, France) - See all my reviews

I usually use Lonely Planet and Green Guide (Guide Vert) but I read a lot of negative reviews about LP, so I gave Eyewitness a try. The photos and diagrams were fantastic - they really helped me make some choices about what to see compared to LP. And I particularly appreciated the diagrams of how many of the ancient sites such as Corinth, Delphi, and Olympia used to look, because you need some help when you see these ruins. Neither LP or Green Guide had these consistently.

My main problem was that it didn't have a lot of useful information, or if it did it was hard to find. The book's organization isn't too good - for a given site or city it has information about the city in terms of tourism or practical all over the place. Green Guide has much better practical maps, which are in color and cover a larger geographic area. Eyewitness is great when you get to the site you want to see, but it is not so useful to find the sites.

Also, compared to LP and Green Guide it has a lot less historical and explanatory information. And in terms of total number of places covered, I have the impression that Eyewitness has less than others. There's a price for nice, glossy photos.

Finally, not that it's critical, but my binding broke within a day, though the book cover mostly kept the book together.

I think I will only buy Eyewitness again in special circumstances.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good tourbook, June 8, 2007

By	Leo V. Romabiles "horus" (usa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The tourbook is organized very well with history, maps, restaurants, hotels, etc and the colored pictures are excellent. The size makes an ideal companion when travelling.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only half the story, June 4, 2007

By	S. Case "Adult viewer/listener/reader" (Connecticut) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It is a shame that DK publishing divides Greece into two separate books, one for the mainland and one for offshore islands. It forces you to buy and carry both books for complete coverage of the country. Even places that are quite close to each other geographically are in separate books, if one happens to be on the mainland, and the other on a nearby offshore island.Greek Islands (Eyewitness Travel Guides)