maps and photos that make it pretty comprehensive. I enjoy looking through it
586928
While this book is a Barnes and Noble coffee table type book, there's tons of illustrations, maps and photos that make it pretty comprehensive. I enjoy looking through it.

I got this book from the seller for a very good price, and it was in like new condition, delivered promptly. Thanks!
1262367
Cool reference guide for costumers.  There are some great full color illustrations here, as well as black and white ones and descriptions of the equipment used.  I'm not a historian, so I can't speak to how complete it is or how accurate it is, but it's certainly interesting.
863963
I'm surprised at how comprehensive this little guide is.  Having lived in, and subsequently visited San Antonio many times, I can assure you that the best sites are included here.  The catagories are nice and varied for travelers of all tastes.  History, food, amusement parks, art, outdoors...  it's all here.  This book is all about the listings themselves, so don't expect much narrative content.

As one reviewer has already noted, the emphasis is on San Antonio, as it really should be, since it's the real tourist draw.  Someday, guidebook editors will quick lumping Austin in with San Antonio, realizing that they are vastly different types of cities.  While San Antonio feels like a Mexican New Orleans, Austin is more like a Texas version of San Diego.  Austin is modern, active and hip, centered on the University of Texas and the 6th Street music scene.  San Antonio is old, slow and hedonistic, with a much more diverse selection of tourist opportunities.

Buy this book as an efficient itinerary planner.
394067
It is comprehensive and informative. I would recommend it. I enjoyed the history in it also.

I really like being able to download it to my kindle on my computer for convenience.
2754942
There's a lot of information here. It's nicely organized and easy to use.
4561207
I found this special atlas to be a visual treasure map.  I have traveled over much of Oregon, once on a field trip for a combined graduate class of paleontology and stratigraphy students at the University of Oregon, and I  enjoyed reminiscing while viewing a more three dimensional-looking map of  many of the sites we had visited.
Both the Recreational and Landscape  sections are very useful and informative when planning a future trip, or  just to "armchair travel."
Reading the maps can be both a  history and a geology lesson.
2186875
Beautiful atlas with huge amount of information and large number of pictures related to each issue and map.
Lot of space is devoted to the description of dynamics that are shaping the entire river basin and the river and its tributaries themselves. Weather and rainfall pattern, bedrock and resulting water qualities are related and well described.  Quite well ballanced ecological informations and human interaction with it are available for the reader throughout the book.
The whole concept is wery well set, so information allways come with the reasoning. The book is definitely opposite of the type of encyclopedia fact loaded dull text and maps. Reader will learn what makes each river different and why that happens, what are the factors behind each distinct fact stated here. There are some mistakes when some pictures are related to the map, so it will make the reader to think a bit more and take the quiz where they belong but those are minor bugs.
Overall I rate this book with five stars and wish to get similar one about different ecosystem or place on earth. It will be a hard task as the bar is set quite high...
94098
It is a beautiful book showing lots of the well known places.(hey could still show more, as I know this area very we l.but I realize
that there are limits on how many.go into a book
2355496
50 Cities of the U.S.A. is a good looking coffee table book that grabs you attention and really makes you want to pick it up and give it a good look. We have a newly retired grandparent (my father-in-law) with a penchant for seeing the US so it's been fun to look up the cities (or states) he is going to or happens to be in at the time. He is currently in the Northeast and headed south so we've been following the states as he goes.
While this book is geared for kids it's actually pretty fun to pick up from time to time to peak at the different cities. A lot of the info is really interesting but I do find the format a little overwhelming. There are too many things crammed into the pages that you can't really see anything underneath. There are also a lot of random references that I find I have to explain to a blank face. On the other hand, I enjoy the thing you can do in a day in the box on the side of the page. A few things I've even done before and that's kind of fun to thing about.
Overall, I find this book okay to glance through but I don't think I'd use it to plan a trip to any city. My child likes it because of the traveling grandparent and I do hope this sparks his interest in seeing the states!
3080619
Very nice map with lots of historic notes superimposed - almost too many - the notes are everywhere and a bit hard to read. Still, I find this so much easier to use than an atlas, and I keep it next to me when reading a civil war book. It's nice to see battle sites within the larger context, and the very eventful parts of Virginia, et al, are in a blowup on the back. I'm glad I bought it.
3753559
Has some of everything. Appears to at least lightly cover the whole country, with major focus on the best-known cities and events. Nice illustrations and maps, probably accurate enough for most tourists, even those visiting the Pantanal or northern or southern Mato Grosso, hopefully in the dry season, .since they can probably rely principally on their tour guides .(I would try the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia for the best maps, if I really needed them.  American WACs and sectionals might do for you, too,
1434984
This is a comprehensive book with interesting illustrations and a lot of information.
1468576
One thing that I always appreciate about travel guides, and Lonely Planet in particular, is that the gorgeous photos make me WANT to visit the subject city or country and "Lonely Planet Discover New York City" is no exception to that rule. Filled with gorgeous, attractive photos, I want to go there and visit the places shown in the travel guide.

Even better is the clear organization and text that accompany the photographs. Sometimes travel guides can be so filled with info that the info all starts to run together but in this guide, it seemed to me to be very well laid out and not over cluttered. There is still a lot of information (and that's why the guides are helpful), but the information isn't overwhelming. Granted, I took my time reading through this guide to savor each section, but the layout was such that I probably could have gone faster in my reading and still got the same amount of enjoyment from the information provided.
919424
I like this book. It's interesting and covers the basics as well as some of the finer points of exposure for different settings, such as portraits, landscapes, and more.  Not really meant to be carried around as a reference, though. Overall, it's a great guide.
3632858
very good map of the overall area. smaller individual maps of specific areas would be good to have as well.
2066633
It gave a nice overview of the mountain and told some of its stories. The photos were outstanding.
3014489
A good book providing lots of information and some lovely pictures.