With more than 2,400 full-color illustrations and detailed maps of over 23 great European cities, Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe highlights the major sights in 20 countries and provides comprehensive information that no traveler should be without. Extending from the Urals of Russia to the Iberian Peninsula this guide covers a wide range a climates and cultures, from The British Isles and Eastern Europe to France and the Low Countries and Scandinavia. Perfect for students, business travelers, or anyone just making their way through Europe, the reference includes a brief history of the continent, maps of railways, and practical advice for any traveler.
Customer Review: Going to Europe? Get this book!
If you’re already a fan of the Eyewitness Travel Guide series, you know what to expect from this book. If this is your first time, let me tell you you’ll be amazed with how great and how useful this book is.
This particular guide summarizes the contents of over 20 other books by DK, including information for 20 countries in total, organized in the following way:
- The British Isles (Great Britain & Ireland)
- France and the low countries (France, Belgium, Luxembourg & The Netherlands)
- The Iberian Peninsula (Spain & Portugal)
- Italy and Greece
- Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark & Finland)
- Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary & Poland).
This guide contains, for every country, information regarding sites to visit, hotels, restaurants, shopping, museums, travel info (how tos for travelling by train, bus, car, metro, etc). Worthy of notice are their trademark cutaways of castles and churches, maps and street-by-street graphics.
The only drawback is that since it includes information on so many countries, some of it might not have the detail you’d expect. For example, the France section has only 73 pages, while the Eyewitness Travel Guide to Paris (another book from DK) has over 350 pages on Paris alone!
A phenomenal guide if you’re planning on visiting many countries on one trip, but if you intend to dedicate more time to just a couple, you’d be better off getting the specific country/city guides.
Customer Review: Great travel guide to Europe!
This book is realy great for everybody who likes to travel Europe. The combination of good pictures, illustration and texts is perfect. You get a good overall view for the most important sights, places, cities and countries in Europe and also a bit of historical information. As a European who already traveled a bit I still could find a lot of inspiration to more interesting places to go. Thank a lot to Eyewitness Travel for there great books!