Advantages: beautiful, informative, inspiring Disadvantages: not clearly a travel book, expects a basic knowledge from the reader
...The garden of this book is Italy and France; those places dear to the heart of every poet, writer and cultural snob from the parochial fringes of Europe. The barbarian of the title is a young Polish poet, Zbigniew Herbert. Be careful, though. The garden i ...
Advantages: Great photos, a must for travel or photography fans Disadvantages: Some poor maps
I first saw this book in a book shop where I had flicked through it, but first got a proper look at it when a friend bought it as a gift for a mutual friend. Then I knew I had to have it. I described it to another friend as featuring “Every country in t ...
Advantages: Big bold and beautiful pictures, interesting, informative and funny. Disadvantages: I can't afford to go to all these places!!!
...One of my favourite Christmas presents this year was The Lonely Planet Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World put together by Roz Hopkins with a lot of help from the lonely planet ‘team’ in respect to pictures and extracts. I am a b ...
Advantages: Extensive, beautiful photography, interesting text Disadvantages: Expensive, no scale on maps
As a number of my reviews will likely testify, I'm something of a lover of travel books, from amusing anecdote-filled travelogues to fact-heavy guidebooks. However, no matter how many of these my rather modest account allows me to buy, there are always so ...
Advantages: Stunning pictures and obscure facts Disadvantages: Expect to disagree with something you read
...love travel more than anything except my family; I am sure you will have realised that if you have read any of my reviews. I also really enjoy photography and have quite a liking for obscure facts; you know the kind that will always come in handy in a t ...
