Insight Guide Scotland (Insight Guides) (Paperback)

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Product Description

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.

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; 4 Upd Sub edition (February 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: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,271,692 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Stephen McHenry (Olney, MD USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vivid Perusal, April 23, 2008

By	A. Reum (Montana, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Insight Guide Scotland (Insight Guides Scotland) (Paperback)

For those of us in the category of visual learners, this travel guide reigns above most others. Each page contains a picture. In fact, most pages have multiple pictures and there are also a large number of full page and two page photos.

Surprisingly, the Insight Guide to Scotland is part history book and part travel guide. Many guides highlight the historical significance of a few high traffic monuments but the Insight Guide will leave you genuinely enlightened regarding Scotland's long, colorful and sometimes unbelievable tale.

Once you've thrown in the obligatory highlights on whiskey, Guinness and Burns; Insight's Guide produces one of the best overall travel guides I've ever reviewed.

3 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to par, May 31, 1998

By	Mima (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Insight Compact Guide Scotland (Insight Compact Guides) (Paperback)

Better than Berlitz, but that's not saying much. Get Fodors or Rough Guide