On the Road Around Northern Italy : The Definitive Fly-Drive Guide [Paperback]

Christopher Catling (Author)

Book Description

Series: On the Road Around ... | Publication Date: July 11, 1998

Includes 80+ detailed maps, sightseeing information, hotel and restaurant recommendations, and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (July 11, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844299944
• ISBN-13: 978-0844299945
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #676,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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51 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars verbal diorrhea, October 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: On the Road Around Northern Italy : The Definitive Fly-Drive Guide (Paperback)

if anything was going to put me off the idea of going anywhere near italy, this book would be it. unfortunate tone, boring and uninfluential - (don't) keep trying.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book I have found for driving around Northern Italy, August 9, 2002

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George395 "george395" (Salem, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On the Road Around Northern Italy : The Definitive Fly-Drive Guide (Paperback)

In planning a 16 day driving tour of Northern Italy, I found this book to be enormously useful. I have driven around Portugal, Norway, Switzerland, etc. but had never been to Italy. Maps in the front show specific stretches of road and areas of particular interest, and give the page number of the chapter that describes each route. The introduction to each chapter gives a succinct overview of the route that gives one a good sense of what to expect, and then describes the route in greater detail--direct route vs. scenic route, sights and towns along the route, accommodations and food, sightseeing, etc. For my purposes, I was especially pleased with the descriptions of the scenery and with the "side tracks" feature, which describes worthwhile sidetrips. I was able to note the routes that I preferred and plot out a practical itinerary. Then I turned to other books (Rick Steves and the Rough Guide to Italy) to get more detail about some of the places we were going to visit.

In summary, I think this is a great book for planning driving tours of Italy--vastly better than any other I have found, including Frommer's "Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours".