Guide to Guidebooks
- Posted by: Adam Leith Gollner
- on June 11, 2008 at 7:41 pm
There’s something reassuring about clutching a guidebook as you stumble from monument to monument through a foreign land, desperately seeking a public toilet (or at least an authentic meal). But with a new memoir by a former Lonely Planet author exposing fraudulence among travel writers, and the ever-increasing amount of unvetted travel information available online, are guidebooks becoming irrelevant? Not quite yet: City guides still feel more dependable than some shut-in with a Wikitravel avatar. GOOD compared five guidebook series you might take with you on your next jaunt. Here’s what we found.
