Berlitz Pocket Guides With more than 40 million copies sold worldwide, Berlitz Pocket Guides are the perfect choice for today's travelers. Whether It's your first trip and you're exploring new territory, or your third trip and you want to concentrate on those out-of-the-way places, these compact, complete, and dependable guides are the perfect travel companion.
Well, although I thought this would give me a good helping hand around Iceland, really the things I needed weren't in it, and what was in it could be gained from any resource, including just turning up in Iceland and booking a tour. So if you want a quick guide to the major sights, and to help you decide whether you want to do the north coast as well, then it's a useful pocket guide.
Maybe the era of the pocket guidebook is over. On the other hand, the Lonely Planet Pocket Venice was superb.