Insight Guide Montreal & Quebec City (Insight City Guides Montreal) (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: petite montagne, place royale, two solitudes, North America, Quebec City, New France (more...)

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Product Description
Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find: .Evocative, full-colour photography on every page .Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout .A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively, essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people .Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing .Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest .A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children

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: 294 pages
• Publisher: Insight Guides; 3 Updated edition (July 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 981412043X
• ISBN-13: 978-9814120432
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #828,330 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Travelers best friend to Montreal and Quebec, June 12, 2001

By	"howjac" (MARLBORO, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Insight Guide Montreal (Insight City Guides) (Paperback)

Gives needed insight along with great photographs from both Montreal and Quebec City. Extremely helpful for planning your stay with information from history of region,places to visit,helpful maps of area,attractions,where to stay or eat,plus much more. Even helpful in all aspects of planning your trip from telling you what tobring and wear,entry regulations, money matters,public holidays,ect.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only good for before trip study, not good for actual trip, April 10, 2005

By	wwbabe (South Pasadena, CA) - See all my reviews

Okay, I bought this book with another one from DK (for Canada) to go to Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and Niagara Falls. I was attracted to the detailed description of the history, different districts in Montreal etc.

As it turns out, don't expect this book will help during the trip. It is only good for the background materials, the real hardcore touring part...it's a disaster for us.

We first arrived in Montreal, and found we had a hard time locating the actual tour site descriptions in the book. This book do it in a very "romantic" way, we had to read an entire paragraph to see the site we want pop up somewhere, and that's about all we can find. There's very little information about the actual site's hours, location etc. And it does not offer a detailed map for the main tourist site: Old Montreal. In the end, we had to use DK for the entire trip.

It's a pity that this is not a practical book. If somebody wants to know more about these cities, this will be a great book. However, for actual visit, I'd suggest just leave it at home.

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Much on Quebec City, July 15, 2009

By	jayesem - See all my reviews

There's not much in this book about Quebec City (11 pages to be exact). I bought it for an upcoming trip to Quebec City. I was very disappointed and found it practically useless. I don't think "Quebec City" should be part of the title. If you want a book that's mostly about Montreal, this might suffice; but I wasn't overly impressed with that part either. There are a lot of photos of people that could have been taken almost anywhere. I have bought several Insight Guides that are much better than this one.