Eyewitness Travel Guides are the original illustrated travel guidebooks-and they're still the best. Since 1993, the Eyewitness brand has established itself as one of the industry leaders, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Featuring more than 70 worldwide destinations, new titles are being added to the best-selling Eyewitness Travel Guides series each year. In 2003, to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of Eyewitness Travel Guides, DK is re-launching the entire series, fully updated, and with a brand-new look.
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The people of Tuscany are fiercely proud of their ancestry, which they trace back to the Etruscans. Read the first page
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By P J Clooney
Format:Turtleback
With the Eyewitness Travel Guides to Florence and Tuscany, Rome and Italy in hand, we were able to make the most of our brief stay in these areas. By using the Guides to prepare for our trips to see the most important sites and attractions, we saw as much as possible in a very limited time. We often had a tour guide leading us, but the knowledge we gained from the Guides enriched the experience.
Courtesy maps given out by businesses were notoriously inaccurate when trying to find notable attractions. The maps and 3-D illustrations in the Guides were very useful. We saw most of the things we wanted to see and we had time to shop and dine without feeling we had missed too much. These guides were good investments.
Courtesy maps given out by businesses were notoriously inaccurate when trying to find notable attractions. The maps and 3-D illustrations in the Guides were very useful. We saw most of the things we wanted to see and we had time to shop and dine without feeling we had missed too much. These guides were good investments.
By Jie Yin
Format:Paperback
DK's Eyewitness Travel Guides are our best travel companion during our tour of Europe. Full of tips, pictures, maps, site info, history, local reference ... every page is not only helpful but beautiful. The layout anf format is very innovative and reader friendly, a ture standing out from any other travel books. It was interesting to see that almost everywhere we went, we saw other people (tourists apparently) holding and checking the same DK book on the street.
The coverage is comprehensive and growing year after year, Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice ... every city we went have its own Eyewitness serie. We studied them before our trip, consulted them during our trip, and kept them as memo and photo book after our trip. They are simply essential part of the travel fun.
I recommend buying indiviual city/area book wherever possible instead of the country book. For example, buy Rome, Florence, and Venice books instead of Eyewitness Italy (unless your destination doesn't have its own Eyewitness). That way you get more detailed and targeted info.
By J. Krueger
Format:Paperback
As I've said in my review of the Eyewitness Guide to Rome, I am very impressed by the aesthetic qualities of the DK books. They make a great show and tell after you've taken the trip, save you from having to take many pictures, and inspire others to want to go there. The content, in terms of guided walks and tours, is just what you need if you're spending more than a day in the beautiful city of Florence. Face it, if you just spend a day, go to the Uffizi and the Palazzo Vecchio area, maybe the Duomo... and let them speak for themselves. But this book goes into decent depth for a variety of attractions and locations. If you are only there three days, you can pick and choose, and it doesn't skimp. I could see how the Eyewitness Guide to Florence would equip you for a month of travel in Tuscany, easily. I unfortunately couldn't get out of the city, but that leads to another praise of the book...
I had a significant medical problem in Florence, and needed immediate attention. The book gave the address for a clinic specifically for tourists (I didn't see this listed in the other guides I had access to). All of the doctors at this clinic spoke English, and I didn't even have to speak to hospital staff or reception. The thing is, even if many foreigners speak enough English to impress, in health situations it's very different and easy to confuse and become confused. Trying to get surgery isn't like ordering dinner. So the directions to this clinic allowed me to get the surgery I needed from someone fluent in my language and made the rest of my trip so much more enjoyable.
The bottom line is, if you're going to Tuscany, you can trust the DK guides to take care of what you need!
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