Around Reykjavik - Herb Lester Travel Guide

Around Reykjavik - Herb Lester Travel Guide available at American Swedish Institute.
Around Reykjavik - Herb Lester Travel Guide available at American Swedish Institute.
Around Reykjavik - Herb Lester Travel Guide available at American Swedish Institute.

Around Reykjavik - Herb Lester Travel Guide

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This is a city unlike others. Its 120,000 inhabitants sustain a thriving art and music scene and several book and record shops, all in an area that can be strolled across in 30 minutes. The locals' love of hotdogs is in keeping with other Nordic cities, but here they're all made from organic lamb. You can spot whales from its shores and they're on its menus too. And then there's the world beyond Reykjavik, an extraordinary and varied landscape dotted with geysers, glaciers, waterfalls and black sand beaches.

 

A3 (11-3/4 x 16-1/2 in) folded to A6 (4-1/8 x 5-7/8 in)

The maps are litho-printed in England on sustainably sourced paper. This is a slower and more costly process than digital printing, but the difference in quality makes it worthwhile.

Herb Lester’s unique guides steer visitors towards the unusual, the underrated, the hip, the historic.
They make their travel guides the old-fashioned way: They write and research in-house or with the assistance of trusted locals, reading old guide books and welcoming the opportunity to revive old friendships in far-flung locales in the quest for on-the-ground knowledge.

This is a time-consuming and costly process, for which they accept no advertising and no free meals. However, if the opportunity arises, they are glad of assistance with places to stay, since they do not cover hotels in their publications. All this means that what they include are the places and things they like and feel deserve attention.