Insight Pckt GD Helsinki -OS (Insight Pocket Guide Helsinki) [Paperback]

Brian Bell (Author)

Book Description

Series: Insight Pocket Guide Helsinki | Publication Date: April 1, 2005

This 96-page book offers an experts guide to Helsinki, with seven walking tours of the city and three excursions to attractions further afield. In Helsinki, almost every corner reveals another intriguing detail: an elegantly carved facade, a statue, a curved window, or a figurine so full of humour it makes you burst out laughing. This guidebook describes seven walking tours of Finlands coastal capital, followed by three excursions by train or car to interesting towns in southern Finland, plus a day-trip to Talinn, the capital of Estonia, just a short hop across the bay from Helsinki. It also includes a chapter detailing Finland's history and culture, as well as leisure-time suggestions and an information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus dozens of full-colour photographs and maps, including a pull-out map that clearly shows all the tours and excursions.

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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: 104 pages
• Publisher: Insight Guides; Pap/Map edition (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9812581375
• ISBN-13: 978-9812581372
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,382,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #39 in Books > Travel > Europe > Finland
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful Helsinki Guide, January 29, 2006

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Donald W. Stein (Buffalo, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This travel guide has nice pictures of Helsinki and nice color maps. The pull out map is especially useful and colorful. The walking routes are nice and I also like the excursions section. After reading this book the full Finland Insight Guide is probably not worth the price unless you really are spending a long time in Finland.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Insight guides come with a bonus, January 17, 2009

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N. Jacks "Travel Guru" (Central Florida) - See all my reviews
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One of the things I love about the insight guides is that they come with an added bonus. Yes they have the photos and information that other guides have, what sets insight guides apart, is you get a free included detail map, not just a map printed on a page, a real map that you can buy at a store and it comes out of the book and folds out into a real street by street map. Also, insight guides are written on a lot of cities that are hard to find in other guides. The Helsinki one was one example. Everyone has a guidebook on Finland, but few have one just on Helsinki, which happens to be the capitol city of Finland. These guides have lots of photos, advice and the good thing is, they don't drag on with hundreds of pages of research, rather they get to the point and move on to something else. I believe you will enjoy these guides. I own almost every travel guide made so I am a good judge of travel guides and I love these. I gave it 4 stars because I left that to the DK eyewitness series as so far no one can touch them. Sadly they don't have a helsinki guide, at least none I have been able to find.