San Juan, Puerto Rico [Paperback]

Mark Drenth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2001

San Juan is a scaled down coffee table book featuring the metropolis of San Juan, Puerto Rico. A deluxe full-color 80 page book with a semi-hard cover, bookmark flaps and a short historical forward of the city San Juan. The book is in four languages: English, Spanish, German and French. The size of the book is a little larger than 9" x 6.5".

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Discover The Caribbean (March 1, 2001)
• ISBN-10: 1880760177
• ISBN-13: 978-1880760178
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,855,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #87 in Books > Travel > Caribbean > Puerto Rico

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book, July 5, 2001

By 

ruben torres (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: San Juan, Puerto Rico (Paperback)

I saw this book in the airport of San Juan Puerto Rico in a couple of the stores. I loved it and bought four for gifts. I should have bought five because so many friends have looked through my copy, its beginning to get worn out.

I was browsing the books here and saw it, nobody has yet reviewed it so I feel compelled to give the first review.

The over all quality of the photos of the book are plain beautiful. Im from Puerto Rico, and didnt want a book with "old" looking photos, or photos of places that had changed. Its obvious all the photos are up to date, as of a couple months ago. Overall the book starts in Old San Juan and zig-zags through the city and ends up in Piniones. The only text of the book is a general opening on the first couple pages then just photos with captions of what they are. The captions are in four languages...english, spanish, german, french.

There are aerials of the city too...as Im looking at the book now there are also bookmark flaps on each cover...pages are high gloss...good feel.

This is one of those books that is a "must have" for anyone who travels... I just wish this book format was available for all the cities Ive been to. FIVE STARS.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Photography, January 25, 2006

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Estella "Estella" (Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: San Juan, Puerto Rico (Paperback)

I am from Santurce, Puerto Rico and love my capital city of San Juan. This book by Mark Drenth is filled with beautiful photos of all the important locations, beautiful aerials including in-depth photos of Old San Juan. I recommend this book as it has the most photos of any book I have seen of San Juan, and all are beautiful. I have a couple coffee table books of Puerto Rico, but this is the best, I am always refering to it when I have guests. If your thinking about the quality, this book is better quality than the expensive coffee table books I own, the colors are more vibrant, realistic and glossy.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Notes from the Photographer/Author, July 5, 2001

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M. Drenth (San Juan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: San Juan, Puerto Rico (Paperback)

Hi, this is Mark Drenth, author and photographer of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The general idea behind this book was to condense a "coffee table" book to a smaller format, thus providing a more affordable book with all the quality of a larger one. Youll find this book to be the one you pull out of your library to show friends what San Juan looks like, and it will end up on the coffee table. I covered all the major areas of San Juan, as well as some intersting areas that only a few tourists get to see. I kept the text to a minimum in order to focus more on the photos of San Juan. Im sure your going to love this book.