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Title: Frommer's Tuscany & Umbria by Reid Bramblett ISBN: 0-7645-6504-4 Publisher: Frommer Pub. Date: 22 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: WARNING - Out of Date Edition
Comment: Warning to readers! We bought this book in March 2004. A more recent edition (called Florence, Tuscany & Umbria) came out in January 2004. This edition was written in 2001 and still quotes prices in lire! We're returning the book and swapping it for the other one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best small-town Italy book on the market
Comment: If you're going on the whirlwind "Rome-Florence-Venice" tour, don't bother with this book. It isn't for you.
If you have a week or 2 to spend in central Italy, buy and read the whole book before you leave, and carry it with you everywhere.
My wife and I spent a month in Italy, and 2 weeks in Tuscany and Umbria. We had Rick Steeve's, Eyewitness, and Frommers with us. In large towns with good tourist infrastructure (Assisi, Sienna, etc) we found most of the books comparable. In the smaller towns where we usually spent our nights (Spoleto, Montepulciano, Sovana), only Frommers was worth looking at. We consistently found their hotel rooms most closely matched up with the written descriptions in the book, and their recommended restaraunts, while not as cheap as Rick Steve's, were very good.
Particularly if driving (which is really the only way to see this region), the maps and directions far surpassed the other 2 books. Great maps of almost every town, no matter how small. The only deficiency was the lack of marking of the inbound and outbound roads on the map. Once I figured out where I was entering the town from though, the maps in this book could take me anywhere.
In the final analysis, all 3 books were useful, but we used each differently. We looked at Rick Steves and Eyewitness each morning, but carried only Frommers with us during the day. When we go back, this will be the only book we take.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Guide That Will Make You Feel at Home
Comment: This was a wonderful guide with witty, opinionated, (accurate in my estimation) comprehensive comment on the many sights and scenes that Tuscany has to offer. We used this guide constantly and exhaustively in the one week we recently spent there. The restaurant and hotel recommendations were uniformly splendid and we were fortunate to discover a new town and a new pasta shape when we ate pici in the hilltop town of Montepulciano, where we would never have considered staying but for this guide. Although I would also have liked to have had a guide with pictures of the attractions, the attraction of this guide makes it well worth that slight quibble. I would highly recommend it to anyone going to the region and I will certainly use it, or a newer edition, upon my hopefully soon return.
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Title: Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria by James Ladsun, Pia Davis, James Lasdun ISBN: 0140264604 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Frommer's Tuscany & Umbria's Best-Loved Driving Tours by Stefano Baldi, Barbara Fisher ISBN: 0764565893 Publisher: Frommer Pub. Date: 19 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Insight Map Tuscany: Fleximap Plus Travel Information (Insight Map Series) by American Map Publishing ISBN: 0841620407 Publisher: American Map Company Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Florence & Tuscany (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Christopher Catling, DK Publishing ISBN: 0789494280 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Fodor's Florence, Tuscany, Umbria, 6th Edition : The Guide for All Budgets, Where to Stay, Eat, and Explore On and Off the BeatenPath by Fodor's ISBN: 1400011086 Publisher: Fodor's Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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