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Canary Islands (Nelles Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bernd F. Gruschwitz
Publisher: Nelles Verlag
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
Buy Used: $1.12
You Save: $14.83 (93%)
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 3181934
Media: Paperback
Pages: 254
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 3886180875
Dewey Decimal Number: 916.490483
EAN: 9783886180875
ASIN: 3886180875
Publication Date: March 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Clean and tight pages. Minimal shelf wear. Former library copy with usual stamps/stickers.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Disappointing April 10, 2004
Nicole Boar (Vermont USA)
There is only 2 sentences about the canary song bird which is the most notable thing about these Islands, and even that information is completely wrong. On page 239 it states the wild canaries don't sing! How ridiculous especially when the bird got exported to other countries because of its spectacular song (as with all song birds, it sings to attact mates and defend its territory). Canaries do NOT need to be caged in order to sing or taught to sing as stated. There is only 2 pages in this book devoted to the Flora and Fauna of the Islands. This is also disappointing.
Way too much emphasis placed on hotels and restaurants unless one plans to visit and do nothing but stay at a hotel and eat.
 Wonderful book January 19, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Combining encyclopedic coverage of destinations with loads of practical information and atlas- type maps, the series illuminates the wonders of nature but emphasizes the peculiarity of a place's people and their folklore." Library Journal
An excellent guide, by fermed May 18, 2000
Fernando Melendez (San Diego, California USA)
This recently published (1999) guide by Bernd Gruschwitz, cites prices that are more likely to reflect reality than older guides to the islands. Its photography is luscious, professional, and plentiful (145), and above all the pictures truly capture what the islands are all about. The maps are excellent and drawn with three dimensional details, so that mountains and valleys are immediately grasped visually.The book is 257 pages long, giving it sufficient room to address the important aspects of each of the 7 islands, as well as to present an overview of their collective history, language and customs. I found a number of small errors (calling shrimp "cangrejo" and captioning a picture of dried fish as "marinated rabbit") but this is a first edition which often contains such mistakes. Counterbalancing those small irritants, the book is exaustively informative: for instance it tells about topless and nude bathing, about assistance for people with special needs (electric wheel chair rentals in Tenerife, for example) and about recent exchange rates for currency. The book's advice is always sound and by all means should be followed. I remain partial to the Lonely Planet guide (it is personable and a fun book), but if I were going to the Canaries for the first time and had to make an absolute choice between this guide and Lonely Planet's, this is the one I would take. The author (a frequent vacationer there) wrote the book in German and then had it translated to English; thus the slightly stiff prose. In all, highly recommended and best to be read and digested while the trip to the Canaries is still in its planning stages.
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