Insight Guide Finland (Insight Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Zoe Ross
Publisher: Insight Guides
Category: Book
List Price: $23.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 296097
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3 Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 325
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 9814120391
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
UPC: 027793120395
EAN: 9789814120395
ASIN: 9814120391
Publication Date: December 2003
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Product Description
Insight Guide Finland includes a section detailing Finlands history, 10 features covering aspects of the type's life and culture, ranging from A Wilderness Experience to Music and film, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus 14 mpas and many high quality photographs.
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Finland from Portugal October 18, 2005
Good value, well written and with pictures os good quality.
And,...nice country.
JA
Beautiful and clever guide to a beautiful country March 17, 2002
31 out of 33 found this review helpful
All too often, Finland has been unfairly treated by many snobbish travel writers - too clean, too expensive, too Northern. For many of those identifying Finland only with mobile phones, the history, the architecture and the landscapes of this brave, spectacularly handsome and exceedingly talented country is largely unknown. This guide tells the story and shows the pictures in a friendly, seemingly effortless and hugely informative way.The book - in common with other Insight Guide publications - is as beautiful as the cover picture suggests. They do not cut corners on buying top quality photos or commissioning informed articles, and it shows. The writing does not have the cynicism and grumpy attitude of shoestring-travel guidebooks: instead, it offers warmth and genuine attempt to look into the country and its people (not only to list its cheapest accommodation). Insight Guides is quite laconic about basic survival within the country, but the pages that are there fully fit the task suffice. Moreover, in Finland, where the knowledge of English is practically universal and the system of public information about transport and other facilities is second to none, you do not need too much hand-holding anyway. This beautiful and informative book is worth every penny.
An American in Helsinki says thumbs up! March 13, 2002
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
I lived in Helsinki for 4 months and traveled around a bit (to Kuopio, Karigasniemi and Ivalo, as well as eastward to St. Petersburg). This is the best guide to Finland I've seen in English. They give not only important tourist information (maps, restaurant and hotel recommendations, attractions, tips, etc.), but also great cultural and historical information that will help put all the tourist stuff in perspective for you.Finland can seem surprisingly foreign if you're expecting it to be just like Scandinavia or the rest of western Europe. But with a little help from the Insight guide you'll find it unique and exciting and beautiful rather than frighteningly different. Get ready for all the stereotypical pleasures (like the sauna and amazing architecture) and some less stereotypical ones like cutting edge, world class design, beautiful birch forests, spectacular lakes, and really weird yogurt-like stuff and juustoleipae! Finland, here you come!
Excellent Guide to a Fascinating Country December 25, 2000
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
With vivid descriptions of cultures and places, superb maps, expert historical discussions, and delightfully charming photographs from cover to cover, this guide offers the reader everything needed to visit this magnificent, magical country.
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