Insight Guides: South India

by Insight Guides

This brand new edition Insight Guide to South India features outstanding full-colour photography and detailed maps alongside comprehensive information on all major sights and attractions. The guide also includes detailed explorations of history and culture, along with practical tips on accommodation, dining, transport, currency and much more.

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Erik B.K.K. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just love travel guides (or any photography book) from the late 70s/80s/early 90s, especially for their photography. Nowadays, most (if not all) cultures, cities and countries have been hurt irreversibly by modernization and globalization, but during said time period there was the tiniest time frame in which globalization still hadn't influenced too much and photography was splendid: full-colour, sharp, but also warm (as opposed to modern digital photography). For this exact reason I own all US National Geographic magazines from 1970 till 1999. And people who know me know I love countries such as India, Pakistan, Tibet, Nepal (and Central Asia too). I had hoped Afghanistan would be included too, but makes sense that it wasn't.

My only gripe with this one is that some photos are missing - they are described in the margins but they're simply not there, and the page numbers do add up so it looks like they were just forgotten. A shame!

[Catherine Woodman · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like this series as a way of figuring out where to go--I am such a visual person that it sometimes helps me to look at pictures of places in order to figure out what might appeal to me as a future destination. I ended up doing more reading on line than I did using books for my upcoming trip--and then because this is a place that I want to be guided rather than go completely on my own, got a company involved. But before we leave, I wanted to go back to where I often usually start, and thought this did a decent survey job of covering this enormous region and it's high points--it would be hard to plan a trip starting her, though.