Eyewitness Travel Guide to Ireland

The guide that shows you what other travel books only tell you!

Highlighted by more than 750 full-color photographs, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Ireland is the most informative, entertaining, and enlightening guidebook to the Emerald Isle. Featuring seven regional chapters and one devoted solely to Dublin, this guide showcases Ireland's landscape, wildlife, architecture, culture, and Celtic heritage. Navigate Dublin with street-by-street maps and aerial 3-D views that direct you to all the museums, castles, cathedrals, churches, parks, and key attractions. Experience Trinity College, travel the countryside, the beaches at Ardmore, and visit Londonderry's Tower Museum to the Lakes of Killarney. Get the most of your stay in Ireland with this gleaming gem of a travel reference.

This compact, handsomely illustrated guide to Ireland opens with a general overview of the island's history and culture. The tour of the country begins in Dublin, then circles south and west, ending up in Belfast. At the back of the book are sections on lodging, food, shopping, and other practical information. It is similar in style, content, and price to Knopf Guides: Ireland, published in July 1995. Eyewitness Travel Guides claim to be "the guides that show what others only tell you." This volume does seem to have slightly more illustrations than the Knopf guide (as well as more hotel and restaurant listings), but its paper cover will not be as durable as Knopf's vinyl cover, and it is a bit heavier to carry. Still, this is a thorough guide that travelers, especially those off-the-beaten track, will find most useful. Recommended for public libraries.
Mary C. Kalfatovic, Telesec Lib. Svcs., Washington, D.C.
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