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Madeira: The 50 finest levada and mountain walks - Rother Walking Guide
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #295625 in Books
- Published on: 2009-06-01
- Original language: German
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Customer Reviews
Walking Madeira
It's impossible to choose THE best Madeira walking guide. Ideally, buy two or three, otherwise this may be the one.
It offers an extensive range of walks, with much practical information presented attractively. There are excellent supporting pictures that do not dominate the text. Very importantly, the book is well bound and eminently pocketable. Everything I look for in a walking guide.
If you can afford one or two more, go for the Cicerone book by Paddy Dillon, and consider the Sunflower Landscapes book by John and Pat Underwood. I prefer the former, but the latter does have good pictures, a useful map, and car tours as well as walks; unfortunately it is an awkward shape and the binding is not as good - the book does not like to stay open, and looks as though it may fall apart prematurely.
Directions not precise enough
At first glance this book seems attractive and useful. But in use, the walk descriptions are sometimes unclear or even misleading. Plus, the author tries to make each walk fit the same amount of space in the book! This is odd as some routes must require more space to describe them properly. It seems design might be of higher priority than content.
I like the Discovery Walking Guides book for Madeira, clear and well written.
Check what you get - but the old edition was good
We've found Rother guides generally useful, and the Madeira 2nd edition (2003)was no exception. The 3rd (2005) edition was updated, and the 4th (November 2008) appears (from the Rother.de website) to be revised again and with additional features (diagram of heights & times, useful phrases etc.) Sadly, although the 4th ed. is advertised on the Amazon site, they have twice supplied the 3rd edition in Jan 2009.
