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| Insight Guide Scotland (Insight Guides Scotland) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Josephine Buchanan, Brian Bell
Publisher: Insight Guides
Category: Book
List Price: $23.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 142154
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 9812586873
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.110486
EAN: 9789812586872
ASIN: 9812586873
Publication Date: January 15, 2008
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Product Description
Insight Guide Scotland includes a section detailing Scotland's history, 12 features covering aspects of the country's life and culture, ranging from its breathtaking scenery to its intellectual geniuses, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus 15 maps and many incredible photographs.
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 Vivid Perusal April 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those of us in the category of visual learners, this travel guide reigns above most others. Each page contains a picture. In fact, most pages have multiple pictures and there are also a large number of full page and two page photos.
Surprisingly, the Insight Guide to Scotland is part history book and part travel guide. Many guides highlight the historical significance of a few high traffic monuments but the Insight Guide will leave you genuinely enlightened regarding Scotland's long, colorful and sometimes unbelievable tale.
Once you've thrown in the obligatory highlights on whiskey, Guinness and Burns; Insight's Guide produces one of the best overall travel guides I've ever reviewed.
 Not a carry along book March 26, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Best for background research before you go, the Insight guides are strong on giving a feel for the culture and people. For me, the short chapters on hunting, fishing and golf were not as interesting as the very good essays about how the Scottish church moulded the temperment of the people, and the bit about Scottish painters. A variety of topics like these are covered in the first 150 pages, the next 160 or so goes into the various locations, with a sense of the area combined with acutal landmarks, their description, location, hours of operation. The books are jammed full of photographs of decent quality. A different approach than the Eyewitness guides, worth looking at both before you go.
 Not up to par June 1, 1998
3 out of 14 found this review helpful
Better than Berlitz, but that's not saying much. Get Fodors or Rough Guide
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