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NOMAD OF THE WEEK : TRAVEL GUIDE BOOKS : DK EYEWITNESS TRAVEL
DK EYEWITNESS TRAVEL

VIA TRAVELDK.COM

DK Publishing has long been known for its lusciously detailed children, art and food books, and its popular DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are no exception. The travel series’ strong educational bent, photography, charts, diagrams, illustrations and intricate layouts have a way of making you feel like you’ve already done Bangkok before the plane has even landed. Travelers to Paris, for example, can learn the difference between a bistro and brasserie while visitors to Ireland can marvel at diagrams of raised bogs — not exactly essential info but quirky and oddly fascinating all the same. For this reason, the Eyewitness books are highly recommended for in-flight and back-at-the-hotel reading. For pounding the pavement, however, they become a bit unwieldy. DK’s smaller, compact “Top 10” city guides are a leaner, more tightly edited complement.

July 2012