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Ireland (Eyewitness Travel Guide) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lisa Gerard-sharp, Tim Perry
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: $31.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 1449096
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 1405304987
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9781405304986
ASIN: 1405304987
Publication Date: November 15, 2004
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Condition: brand new never used book! wonderful guide
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Ireland. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you'll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, detailed neighborhood maps with a street-finder index, and even historical timelines. Broken into several sections (including "Introducing Ireland," "Region by Region," "Traveler's Needs," and "Survival Guide"), the guide paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will especially love the hundreds of color photos of everything from the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare to the Connemara landscape of County Galway to out-of-the-way pubs and street-by-street illustrated city walks (Dublin's Southeast walk takes in famed landmarks such as Trinity College, St. Stephen's Green and the Shelbourne Hotel). You'll also find listings for Aran sweaters, Waterford crystal, and Celtic recordings. --Jill Fergus
Book Description
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.
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 Fantastic!! A must-have book for your trip to Ireland! July 20, 2008
Hands down, this is THE travel book one needs for planning a trip to Ireland. Filled with wonderful photos and drawings and interesting text that really tells you about each area, this will be a wonderful resource prior to and during your travels.
The book starts with basic information about Ireland including the people, the economy and a wonderful historical time-line of the country. Of course, it's not exhaustive but it is a great overview of the basics. Next you can explore region by region all that Ireland has to offer. The photos are beautiful and there is an appropriate amount of text (unlike Frommers and Fodors who inundate the reader with too much detail and not enough visual items).
So - the book is pretty and fun to read, but does it include good information? YES! It gives you tons of options of sites to see in each area. It also tells you how best to see each area (by foot or by car) and how long you might want to spend in each area (an afternoon or a few days).
I can't say enough about this book. It is the primary book I've used for planning past trips and the upcoming one I'll be taking. It will also be the only one I carry over to Ireland - it is worth it's weight in gold for the information it contains.
Very Good Overall Guide July 9, 2008
Ireland worth a visit and this guide will be very helpful. Great country and great people! Dia duit!
 Another great DK book May 29, 2008
This guide is very informative and very visual. It makes it a lot easier to know what to expect when you get to Ireland and gives some great suggestions. Most important to me is the thumbnail history of Ireland... up to now my interest in Ireland has been indirect; in other words, it has always been about Ireland in relation to England the the British Empire.
I'm looking forward to using this book during our summer vacation this year!
Buy it!! May 21, 2008
Bought this guidebook for our trip to Ireland in 2007. Incredibly useful for picking out things to do/see, places to visit, what to avoid. There were even maps of the floorplans for historic buildings! This book was dog-eared long before the trip and carried in the totebag every day. Dublin seems to have a phobia with street signs so I used the hotel listings in the back to determine how much further was the walk from that hotel to Trinity College - worked like a charm! Galway was far and away the best part of the trip due to the extensive recommendations. And County Meath - we would never had gone to the mid-lands if not for this book and I am so glad that we did go. Trim was quaint and charming and convenient for traveling around castle gazing and visiting the Bru na Boinne and Tara.
Best advice from this book: ride the Iarnrod Eireann (train) cross country rather than driving - it's quicker, hassle-free and cheaper than car rental and a tank of very expensive European gasoline (buy tickets on-line while in America to cut down on the fees for turning dollars into the Euro). We also hired a driver for the day we spent traveling about the Bru and the fee was cheaper than renting a car. Not to mention you don't have to worry about getting lost on those very narrow, very winding roads. I still thumb through this book remembering how great our trip was....
A Must Have for Overseas Travel April 17, 2008
After using my DK Germany guide while in Germany I will never travel to another country without having bought the book for it. DK Publishing is true to their rich informative heritage with this Ireland guide and offer an expansive amount of information in a compact and retainable form. This product is a must-buy if you are heading to Ireland any time soon.
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