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Denmark (Eyewitness Travel Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dk Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 77839
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0756613531
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.890459
EAN: 9780756613532
ASIN: 0756613531
Publication Date: October 17, 2005
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Product Description
Recognized the world over by frequent flyers and armchair travelers alike, Eyewitness Travel Guides are the most colorful and comprehensive guides on the market. With beautifully commissioned photographs and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the charm of each destination, these amazing travel guides show what others only tell.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 It was on the way to be good...but didn't make it August 3, 2008
Erminio Di Lodovico (Caracas, VENEZUELA)
The graphics are great. It is a very beautiful guide. But the information in it is rather incomplete.
For example: If you want to go to any place (i.e. a museum), the guide tells you which bus/train/metro take, but doesn't tell you where to stop and what to do in order to get to the place from the bus stop. And the guide also lacks of "real" travelers information: which are the museums that haf discouns with the "copenhagen card", etc.
The guide doesn't seem to transmit if the author has a "hands on" experience. It is a rather "cold" book. You feel a profesional writer in the book, not a real traveler.
best visual guide on Denmark May 6, 2008
Gabriel E. Borlean (San Jose - Capital of Silicon Valley, California USA)
Best visual guide on Denmark (aka DK).
This is the first time I had to buy a Eyewitness Travel Guide.
Considering that Denmark is such a small country, I was gladly surprised to see that this volume packs a lot of information and images on almost every page.
This guide is well organized. It starts with a great introductory chapter: putting Denmark on the map, a portrait of Denmark, Denmark through the year, and the History of Denmark (as the sub-chapters). Then the next chapter covers over 60 pages on Copenhagen alone (not surprising considering that 25% of Denmark population is located in this metropolitan area). The next sections are on different regions of Denmark (including sections on island of Bornholm, Greenland, and the Faroe islands).
The sections that surprised me the most were the ending chapters: Travelers Needs and Survival Guide, giving one such great visual and written ideas on what to shop for, entertainment ideas, outdoors activities, and practical traveling information.
From my personal use this spring, I realize that the section on the island of Funnen (Fyn in Danish) is rather meager. As complements I would recommend Frommers 2007 edition of Denmark, and the Tourist Information office on the street corner across from the Tivoli entrance in Copenhagen (one block away from the main train station). Happy Travels!!
Useful, but not self-sufficient, reference December 7, 2007
HoyaSaxa
I have many Eyewitness Guides, and this one shares their strengths and weaknesses. Their strong points are their photos and street-by-street maps and approach to organizing attractions - great for itinerary planning, especially in a completely unfamiliar region. Downside - little info of a practical nature; I always need Frommer's, Fodor's etc. for more in-depth reviews of hotels and restaurants and points like where to catch a ferry and its schedule. This guide is especially weak on Funen - a very short section that doesn't include all the attractions I've seen online and in other guides (pity, because we're going to Funen!). But I value having photos for my planning process, so I see this book as a valuable element of my research.
 Wonderful November 23, 2007
A. Lyon (Boulder, CO USA)
This is a terrfic guide for someone who wants accurate, succinct and thorough. Just got back from a short trip to Copenhagen. Loved the info provided in this guide book.
Colourful and informative June 14, 2007
C. J. Creighton (Okayama, Okayama Japan)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am planning a family vacation to Denmark and I wanted to get some information on places other than Legoland. I found the information in this guide very useful.
It is well organized and easy to look up places in the book. For example, the publishers have divided Denmark into a number of regions and these are colour coded. Southern Jutland and Legoland? Look in the yellow section.
It is informative: I learned about Danish history, customs and culture. There is a good overview of Danish design and this is followed up in more detail in the respective entries. The section on Danish history is illustrated with pictures of paintings, sculptures and photos again in full colour.
My only reservation about this book concerns the scrupulous fairness of all the entries. Visitors are looking for information and insight, both good and bad. Is Tivoli really worth the time or is it an overrated tourist trap?
Overall, however, I am happy that I purchased this book over the others.
I did some time consuming searches on the internet for information about Denmark but I should have saved myself the trouble and bought this book first.
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