Insight Guide Scotland [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Insight Guide Scotland | Publication Date: February 1, 2003

This 360-page guidebook to Scotland presents the country's highlights in a comprehensive format, illustrated with hundreds of full-colour photographs and 14 maps. Key features: Places: region-by-region gazetteer section, with top attractions highlighted and cross-referenced with detailed local maps. Essay Features: incisive essays on Scotland?s history, people and culture, ranging from its world-famous whisky distilleries to its intellectual geniuses. Photo Features: magazine-style full-colour features on some of the country's most impressive sights, including Edinburgh Castle and its highlands, lochs and islands. Travel Tips: practical listings section, including Accommodation, Entertainment, Transport and essential contact addresses and numbers.

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About the Author

Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight Travel Guides, Delorme – the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.

Product Details

• Paperback: 359 pages
• Publisher: Insight Guides; 2003 ed. edition (February 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9812349502
• ISBN-13: 978-9812349507
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,453,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not a carry along book, March 26, 2003

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This review is from: Insight Guide Scotland (Paperback)

Best for background research before you go, the Insight guides are strong on giving a feel for the culture and people. For me, the short chapters on hunting, fishing and golf were not as interesting as the very good essays about how the Scottish church moulded the temperment of the people, and the bit about Scottish painters. A variety of topics like these are covered in the first 150 pages, the next 160 or so goes into the various locations, with a sense of the area combined with acutal landmarks, their description, location, hours of operation. The books are jammed full of photographs of decent quality. A different approach than the Eyewitness guides, worth looking at both before you go.