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"Outstanding. This was my fourth Rough Guide, and perhaps the best of them all. It contains an incredible amount of detail. . . Highly recommended."
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Donald Reid is also the author of the Rough Guides to South Africa, Edinburgh and Scottish Highlands & Islands. Rob Humphreys has authored Rough Guides to London, England, Austria and the Czech Republic.
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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
best guide book I've ever used,
By chronicler 1 "chronicler1" (Hampton, VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rough Guide to Scotland (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
I bought this guide book along with several others to plan a trip to Scotland. Everything I wanted to know was in this book. The phone listings, bed and breakfasts, etc. were all as described. You know how some guidebooks discuss things or list restaurants, hotels, etc. that are no longer around, or aren't as described in the book? Well this wasn't one of them. It became an invaluable companion on my trip. The history of any area I wanted was basically in the book. The recommendations were fairly accurate, and the maps most useful. This is a guidebook for real people--those of us who dream of a trip to Scotland, but perhaps don't have a lot of money to spend on fancy hotels, rental cars, etc.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Scotland 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)
Circumstances permitted us only a one-week visit to Scotland, and this book helped us make every day full and enjoyable. It led us to out-of-the-way places we never would have found on our own. Its straightforward descriptions made it easy to choose among several options in any area that we traveled through.
Thus we found Innerperfray Library with its librarian, Mr. Powell, and his entertaining personal tour, walks in the woods of Glen Coe and Loch Leven, the slate quarry at Ballachulish, the island of Inchmahome and the ruins of Inchmahome Abbey, a cruise in a small boat along unspoiled Loch Shiel, Doune Castle (where an anxious crew was shooting a TV commercial), and dinner with excellent food in pleasant surroundings - and way off the beaten track - at An Crann, in Balavie, near Fort William. The book's listings of accommodations, however, seem more for the hardy. We found reasonably priced and comfortable hotels through local tourist offices, for which the book also provides contact information.
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Outstanding and Invaluable Resource,
By Ian James (Rochester Hills, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rough Guide to Scotland (4th Edition) (Paperback)
In travelling through Scotland this summer, I found this book invaluable in pointing out important places to visit. Particularly impressive was the way it would imply avoiding certain sections and areas of the country, but never denigrating anything. It is a thorough guide for the whole country, and I found it's analysis interesting and thought provoking. It also makes a good read when you are not even travelling. This is an outstanding book, without question.
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"There are some nonstop flights to Scotland from North America, but not from Australia or New Zealand: in any case, you'll get a much wider choice - and usually lower fares - if you fly via London." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oct Mon-Sat, Fort William, Aug Mon-Sat, New Zealand, Royal Mile, World War, Loch Lomond, Princes Street, Robert the Bruce, Sir Walter Scott, Union Street, April June, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Kyle of Lochalsh, North Sea, Queen of Scots, April-Sept Mon-Sat, Glen Coe, Loch Ness, Fair Isle, Moray Firth, Iron Age, John O'Groats, Merchant City, Rob Roy New!
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"There are some nonstop flights to Scotland from North America, but not from Australia or New Zealand: in any case, you'll get a much wider choice - and usually lower fares - if you fly via London." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oct Mon-Sat, Fort William, Aug Mon-Sat, New Zealand, Royal Mile, World War, Loch Lomond, Princes Street, Robert the Bruce, Sir Walter Scott, Union Street, April June, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Kyle of Lochalsh, North Sea, Queen of Scots, April-Sept Mon-Sat, Glen Coe, Loch Ness, Fair Isle, Moray Firth, Iron Age, John O'Groats, Merchant City, Rob Roy New!
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- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Whole Story) by Robert Louis Stevenson on page 51, page 129, and Back Matter
- Sir Walter Scott by John Buchan on page 168, and page 2
- The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (Modern Library Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson on page 129, and Back Matter
- Weir of Hermiston (Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson) by Robert Louis Stevenson on page 129, and Back Matter
- World War I (The United States at War) by George C. Scott on page 164, and Back Matter
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- AS GCE Travel and Tourism for AQA: Double Award by Alan Marvell on page 156
- Tourism and Sustainable Community Development (Routledge Advances in Tourism) by Derek Hall on page 118
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