DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New England

Eyewitness Travel Guides

by D.K. Publishing

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New England will lead you straight to the best attractions this breathtaking region has to offer. Packed with stunning photography, illustrations, and detailed maps, this fully updated guide will help you discover the Northeast state by state, from rocky coast of Maine to the river landscapes of Connecticut to the world class culture of revolutionary Boston. Explore the culture, history, wildlife, and architecture of New England with walks and hikes through dramatic landscapes, scenic routes, and guidance on the region's fresh coastal cuisine. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New England provides all the insider tips you need, whether you are sailing in infamous Newport, exploring museums of the American Revolution, or hiking across the spectacular Appalachian Mountains. The guide includes 3-D cutaway illustrations and floor plans of all the must-see sights, street-by-street maps of major cities and towns, and reliable information about getting around this incredible region.

With hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and maps, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New England shows you what others only tell you.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference

400 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 2001

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[carl theaker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Starts right off with ‘what to do on a 2 day tour, and a 10 day tour, I like that get to the action. Plenty of small pics. Only name and address info provided for places to eat and drink, so not a lot of info there. I am looking for info only on Portland-Bar Harbor-Acadia National Park, so no fault of the book as it is covering all of New England, but not a lot of specifics for my research.

[Jennifer Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative and lots of great pics and maps. This certainly makes my road trip easier, or possibly harder because I became interested in places I didn't even know existed.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have never visited New England, but this book has given me the chance to think seriously about going there. The layout is typical of most DK guides, with much space given to pictures, plus captions and short blocks of text. Each significant place has a street map, overview text, and in some cases a suggested tour itinerary.

New England is an extraordinary place, a landscape that has appeared in countless movies, vast and lightly inhabited, dotted with wooden houses and homesteads, and bound by hills and a rugged coastline. The guide points to all the usual kinds of attractions plus many that, given the size of the place, would be easily missed.

I had a glance at the equivalent Lonely Planet guide, which is also very good, but I prefer the DK guide, which I found more useable. I’ve used other DK guides in the range, especially those for Italy, and found them the best in a very competitive market.

[Katya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading this guide, I've come to realize that I'm just not a fan of the DK Eyewitness guide structure. They claim to "show" instead of "tell" but the guides still end up being too dry for my taste. The content focuses largely on history and facts - names, dates, details - and I find myself zoning out when trying to read through the information. The restaurant reviews in particular are limited to one line per recommendation, which doesn't fit the needs of a food-focused traveler like me.

Also they used the terms 'Oriental' and 'Indian' in this edition to refer to Asia and Native Americans, which... yikes, fam.

[Pete daPixie · Rating 3 out of 5]

As an inhabitant of Olde England, this travel guide is a little bit too broad in its coverage. I have previously taken a skiing holiday in Vermont, but my focus of interest in borrowing this book from the library is Massachusetts. Even so, I enjoyed perusing through the six states covered in this DK Eyewitness guide.
If ten or twenty grand happen to drop out of my sky I could pack my bags containing this New England guide and enjoy a few months across the pond with a really great itinerary.
Any donations gratefully accepted!

[Raine Vollor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a surprisingly good travel book! I am looking for some local attractions I might not have seen. it hasany things I didn't know about, but also the descriptions of the places I have been are spot on! Good on you :)

[Micah]

i like it

[Shae · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are ever going to use a guide book I highly recommend any of the Eyewitness series. Lot of color photos, concise descriptions, and very visual format. Face it, you just use a guide book to decide where you want to visit, but you don't want too much information since you'll get it from the primary source once you get there.

[Gina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Purchased this for a recent road trip from Washington D.C. to Boston and then onto Portland, Maine. The maps are good, and I appreciated the full color photography. It is disorganized making it hard to use as a true guide. At $25 think of this more as a nice souvenir book rather than a useful travel guide.

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Eyewitness Travel guide to New England is beautifully laid out & very well ordered. It covers a lot of attractions in a concise way & also includes information on travel, currency & customs such as tipping.

[Miriam Jacobs · Rating 1 out of 5]

Buying the Kindle version was a mistake. Nothing at all like the DK guides in print, especially in that there are almost no photos or illustrations. Just awful.

Save your money.

[Pat Murphy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this book because I intend to visit Maine this summer. I have enjoyed Eyewitness travel books in the past and this one I found pretty good too. I looked for a book that was just about Maine but could not find one so I upped it to New England. It gave me a feel for the geography of the whole area which I appreciated. I must confess that when the book went to other states besides Maine and New Hampshire I skipped those sections. There must not be all that much to describe in New England and the individual states that make it up. Boston dominated the subject matter, at times taking up whole sections. I can see why. Boston is a city packed with things for tourists to enjoy. But I am looking forward to seeing the coastline in Maine and getting some of their seafood. The reading was entirely enjoyable and I think I accomplished what I wanted to and more with this book. Also it is a good reference to have while traveling with addresses and phone numbers and maps included in it.