America’s #1 bestselling travel series Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer’s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do.
It is more than a guide book; starting with the Introduction each description's like a piece of literature that puts vivid images in your head.
Personally, I had fun taking pictures through the sites to post in my old blog with descriptions from the book matching with each picture.
Especially when it comes to historical sites the book offers many maps and well-organized courses to follow through, but no images of the sites you are about to see with your own eyes. The book pushes you to imagine yourself which happens to be the best advantage you get from reading written texts instead of watching images.
At some places you will feel like you've already been there before you actually get there. The book gives you a rare chance of time travel making you feel like you are lost walking into downtown Rome during the ancient, medieval and Renaissance times.
It is literally the best travel guide book for anyone who are in history and literature as well as for those who love to read and make your own images of certain things or places before you get to see them with your own eyes.