No comments about Passport's Illustrated Travel Guide to Vancouver & British Columbia/from Thomas Cook (Passport's Illustrated Travel Guide).

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1 comments about Backroad Mapbook: Vancouver Island (Backroad Mapbooks).

1. I purchased this atlas for a bicycle trip on the logging roads around the Lake Cowichan area. There are no other published maps of these roads that I'm aware of.
   
   We approached the logging roads via the Galloping Goose trail near Leechtown and quickly learned that the map is very wrong. All of the points of interest are incorrectly mapped in this area. There are two markers for Leechtown, but neither points to the actual location of Leechtown. The location of Kapoor Regional Park is also incorrect (it is on the east side of the Sooke River, not the west side). And the vital part is that many of the logging roads shown on the map no longer seem to exist. We followed Leech Main (heading West) and found that it was completely washed out (we walked along it for a few hundred feet and couldn't find the other side) or may never have existed. The map was published in 2005, but the trees on the washout where 10' tall, so the washout was already fairly old.
   
   While riding on the logging roads we talked to a few other locals and all reported that this atlas had many other similar mistakes and could not be trusted for navigating the logging roads. I realize that logging roads change, but this book appears to contain much older data than the publishing date would have you believe.
   
   The text section in the first half of the book listing fishing spots, trails, and other points of interest is fairly unique among road atlases. It is inconsistent (for instance the atlas shows the Transcanada Trail on many pages but there is nothing about this in the text of the book) but sometimes helpful. It would be nice if this was published as a second book so that the maps could be carried seperately.
   
   For paved road travel this book is okay. The maps are normally easy to read but notes and points of interest markers can be difficult to read or incorrectly located. For dirt and logging road travel it should be avoided. For paved road travel I think most users could get away with a less detailed map.

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2 comments about Frommer's Vancouver & Victoria 2005 (Frommer's Complete).

1. Canada is so close to where I live, however, I don't know enough about the destination to truly feel that I will experience all that it has to offer. This guidebook helped me to plan out exactly what I felt would be worthwhile for me. I've got a great itinerary put together in anticipation of a great trip.



2. Having never been to Victoria before this book has been extremely helpful and informative. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is going to the beautiful City of Victoria or Vancouver Island.

1 comments about Victoria and Vancouver Island, 4th: A Personal Tour of an Almost Perfect Eden.

1. The book was lots of fun to read. The descriptions of the city using the vantage point of a walker up and down the specified streets was brilliant. Even though my trip to Victoria fell through, I can pick up the book and almost hear, smell and see this fascinating place I hope to visit someday.

1 comments about Frommers Vancouver & Victoria for Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)).

1. i referenced this book throughout my stay in vancouver. it came in very very handy during my stay there. before making any decisions, we checked to see what this book had to say

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