Find Your Way Home--Bestselling Sat Navs
Plan ahead and avoid traffic jams with one of our bestselling sat navs from top brands including TomTom and Garmin. We also stock a great range of up-to-date and fully-routable maps for your device, including popular destinations such as France, Portugal, North America and Scotland.
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Visit the Amazon.co.uk Trade-In Store for more details. |
|
There is a newer edition of this item:
|
Product details
|
Product Description
Product Description
Weir''s user-friendly tour of Los Angeles offers varied dining, lodging and cultural choices for every visitor, including Disneyland, the Malibu coast, the skyscrapers, the Getty Museum, and the Hollywood thrill ride through Universal Studios.'
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon U.K.
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
2.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Balancing out the effects of airborne particulant response., 11 Nov 2000
By anonymous - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Los Angeles Handbook (Moon Handbooks) (Paperback)
The scene: You've finally made your way to Los Angeles, you know where you want to go, and you have bought a handy guide with the expectation that it will get you there. The mark of a good guide is to furnish you with all the information you need: where to eat, maps, parking, bathrooms, directions, etc.,etc.,etc. The mark of a phenomenal guide is one you actually ENJOY reading from cover to cover. Kim Weir is an excellent writer -- not only because she is informative but because she is interesting. Her Los Angeles Handbook makes navigating one of the most difficult, changing, energetic areas in the world an experience. Not just a check-it-off-the-list planned excursion. And unlike the majority of guides out there, this one merits a better fate than being thrown into the back of the closet after the trip is over. During those brief respites that we truly sane incorporate into our enjoyment of a place -- those moments when we sit to enjoy the surroundings and peoplewatch -- is a perfect time to pull this travel narrative out and actually read it. Like Weir's other guides, this one is as much social history, criticism, humor, and creative non-fiction, as it is that basic guide stuff. Although a more manageable read than her equally excellent Southern California Handbook and Northern California Handbook, this one is an equally well designed read and guide. The book begins with the words, "They say that San Francisco there is less than meets the eye: in Los Angeles there is far more." So too this book.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Moon Handbooks, Los Angeles, 30 July 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Los Angeles Handbook (Moon Handbooks) (Paperback)
Wilfires, blah blah, floods, blah blah, riots, blah blah, (fill in the blank) suburbs in search of a city, blah blah, traffic, blah blah, smog, shallow plastic people, frenzied lifestyle, earthquakes, blah blah blah! Do all travel guide authors go to the same school, with the same teacher, or do they just keep regurgitating each others' own fallacies. They might indeed all GO to the same school since three of the major travel guide publishers are located in the bay area (Ulysses, Lonely Planet, and Moon); and reading any of them is like reading the other. It should come as no suprise to anyone that there never has been one in the bay area with anything good to say about SoCal. Something akin to the French attitude towards Americans. It's hard for an author to encourage readers to visit a place when they already have disdain for the place to begin with, and these authors are no exception. If you want a good travel guide to Los Angeles, try Fodor, that publisher at least hired a writer who enjoys the city. Los Angeles is the most dynamic city on the American scene, and one of the most in the world. Los Angeles is not just a city "not to be missed", it is THE city to see. The rest can be fit in as time allows. So by all means, come and enjoy our city, but I would recommend another guide to do it, (nice maps though).
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Moon Handbooks, Los Angeles, 30 July 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Los Angeles Handbook (Moon Handbooks) (Paperback)
Wilfires, blah blah, floods, blah blah, riots, blah blah, (fill in the blank) suburbs in search of a city, blah blah, traffic, blah blah, smog, shallow plastic people, frenzied lifestyle, earthquakes, blah blah blah! Do all travel guide authors go to the same school, with the same teacher, or do they just keep regurgitating each others' own fallacies. They might indeed all GO to the same school since three of the major travel guide publishers are located in the bay area (Ulysses, Lonely Planet, and Moon); and reading any of them is like reading the other. It should come as no suprise to anyone that there never has been one in the bay area with anything good to say about SoCal. Something akin to the French attitude towards Americans. It's hard for an author to encourage readers to visit a place when they already have disdain for the place to begin with, and these authors are no exception. If you want a good travel guide to Los Angeles, try Fodor, that publisher at least hired a writer who enjoys the city. Los Angeles is the most dynamic city on the American scene, and one of the most in the world. Los Angeles is not just a city "not to be missed", it is THE city to see. The rest can be fit in as time allows. So by all means, come and enjoy our city, but I would recommend another guide to do it, (nice maps though).
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
