Lonely Planet Discover Turkey (Full Color travel Guide) Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's James Bainbridge Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1742202829 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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- Series: Full Color Travel Guide
- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet; Pap/Map edition (July 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1742202829
- ISBN-13: 978-1742202822
- Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
While I love the classic bluescale lonely planet that is packed full of information, my travel buddy and SO likes full colour photographs that inspire him to plan our next adventure. So, we got both the current Lonely Planet Turkey and Lonely Planet Discover Turkey.
The differences are:
1) One is printed on glossy paper and is competely in full colour while the other is 99% in bluescale with a few coloured maps printed in their regular paper in the front.
2) The font in the Classic guide is slightly different in that is seems to be spaced a bit tighter together and is maybe a smidge smaller. The verbiage in the Discover version is easier on the eyes.
3) The Classic guide has 3 contributors while the Discover version has 4 (the 4th is Steve Fallon which covers the Antalya and Mediterranean coast).
4) The Classic guide contains 702 pages while the Discover Guide contains 390 pages.
5) The Classic guide has blue quick reference tabs printed on the pages, while the Discover version has coloured tabs printed for even easier and faster referencing.
6) Obviously, containing fewer pages and boasting full colour and an easier-to-read font and layout, the Discover guidebook focuses more on doing stuff. The bluescale Classic tome is more comprehensive and contains more on history, culture and various suggestions and alternative itineraries.
7) Being thicker ad containing more information, the Classic guide is heavier, though not by much, than the Discover guide.
Similarities:
- Both the Classic and the Discover Guide share 3 of the 4 contributors
- The recommended places to stay and things to do are the same. There is just a bit more information and maybe an additional selection or two in the larger Classic Guide.
This is the last Lonely Planet travel guide I'll be buying. Over the last several years, I've noticed a clear decrease in the quality of these guidebooks. After purchasing this book and spending a week in Turkey, I found this guide to be nothing but a paperweight. The information is useful from a distance only; on the ground, we found ourselves quickly cursing the book as nothing but a bunch of psuedo-Yelp reviews. I really believe you could have written about 80% of this book simply by browsing the web.
The descriptions of historical sites read like the two sentence plaques you find beneath them; the "local tips" come from tour agencies pushing their own products; and I was DUMBFOUNDED by the inadequacy of the index. When I was trying to navigate my way from Sabiha Gocken international airport, presumably the point of arrival for between 25 and 50% of travelers to Istanbul, I couldn't find a reference to the airport in the index; when I finally stumbled on a paragraph later in the book, there wasn't a lick of information to help me figure out how to get from their to Istanbul, what it might cost for a taxi, how long, etc. Turns out it took about 2 hours and cost 140TL -- wish I had known that before landing.
Additionally, for a place so vibrantly rich in history as Turkey, the historical information provided by this book was truly terrible. The "history" section was meandering, vague, and written hopelessly at 30,000 feet. A condensed wikipedia timelime. No additional history or cultural background was provided for the different sections of the country. Even the most prolific city of Istanbul, the center of so many empires, didn't have a page or a paragraph devoted to historical background! Again, dumbfounded.
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