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Norway (Eyewitness Travel Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dk Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 93192
Media: Turtleback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 078949339X
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
UPC: 635517093391
EAN: 9780789493392
ASIN: 078949339X
Publication Date: April 21, 2003
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Product Description
See the best Norway has to offer, from stunning fjords and solitary mountains to the cosmopolitan city of Oslo and small fishing villages, in this inspiring guide. Includes practical advice on hiking, skiing, night life and local culinary specialties. Features over 850 full-color photographs, maps and illustrations.
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 Nice Souvenir, but Not a Useful Guide June 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me preface this by saying that normally we love the EyeWitness guides, and they are our default choice when it comes to travel guides. Unfortunately, the standard style of the EyeWitness guide breaks down when it comes to covering the entire country of Norway. While this book makes a great overview and introduction to the land and its culture, it doesn't serve as much of a guide once you're there.
One of the big selling points of EyeWitness books is their beautiful hand-drawn maps. Usually these cover interesting neighborhoods, parks, etc. In the Norway book, they use the same system to cover vast regions of the country. Since the advantage of these maps in the other books is the detail, the idea breaks down in such a large scale where they actually end up with less detail (only main roads and towns appear). The illustrating is filled in with uninspiring clip art of animals and rural life, and the maps are nearly useless aside from a general overview.
The beautiful full-color photographs are still there, which admittedly do help us choose and get excited about some of the things we choose to see. And these also make the books a great gift or souvenir. A few sights like the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim do lend themselves to EyeWitness's trademark cut-away visual illustration, but the number of these is very small.
We've owned this book for over a year, and I've been reluctant to write a review until I've given it a fair shot. We've now traveled to quite a few places in Norway, and we found that in all but Oslo and Bergen this book was virtually useless. Oslo and Bergen have enough museums to flesh out the city listings, but the big draw in the rest of the country is the nature and scenery. The important information is less about exhibits and opening hours, and more about how to get around and where to find the most scenic vantage points.
While I've yet to find a truly great guidebook for Norway, we have had better luck with Lonely Planet Norway. In most cases, we've carried both, and even when something interesting appears in the EyeWitness, we counted on the town maps in Lonely Planet to get us there.
Beautiful pictures, short on factual details June 9, 2008
I ordered this book as we are going to Norway next month. Although the photos were beautiful and the history very interesting, I found it short on factual information. I later picked up Frommer's guide which I found to be much more useful, particularly with regard to daytrips, tours, directions.
 B&B in Scandanava May 29, 2007
We have many freinds and realatives there but when you travel with several people you can not expect to fiind people to stay with for many reasons, this book will make it easy for us to find a place that is not priced out of the world.
A great start to planing a Norway getaway (twice) December 17, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you are planning a trip to Norway this book is a must have. It clearly outlines the whole country and does an excellent job with Oslo. There is so much to see and even if you are just doing a cruise of the country this is still worth buying. At the time I was only going to Oslo but on my second trip back I toured the rest of the country and this book was useful on both occasions. While it would be nice if DK made an Oslo book this one will be great in the meantime.
Norway (Eyewitness Travel Guides) November 4, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I really like this book. I have many of the DK Eyewitness books, and they are all very good.
Norway" as well as other DK's have wonderful maps, beautiful pictures and valuable information.
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