Advantages: Mentions places of interest which you might otherwise miss, cheap too. Disadvantages: Written in 2003/2004 so some prices / information might be slightly outdated
In June 2007 my husband and I took a fly drive holiday to California. Being the kind of person who’s almost anal in their preparation for any holiday, I started scouting around for books to take with us months beforehand.
This was one that I bought, I ...
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 ...
