DK Publishing

The world’s best-selling travel guide publisher, DK Eyewitness Travel, publishes over 400 guidebooks and Top 10 guides to destinations all over the world, as well as inspirational gift-books and phrasebooks.

Known as “the guides that show you what others only tell you,” DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations. DK also has digital travel guides including eBooks and iPhone applications. To purchase our books, visit your favorite bookseller and for more information, please visit us.dk.com. For sample itineraries and travel content from our Top 10 guidebook series, please visit traveldk.com.

Open up a DK Eyewitness Travel Guide and you’ll see: they really are the guides that show you what others only tell you.

Back Roads is the new driving guidebook series from DK Eyewitness Travel, the world’s best-selling travel guidebook publisher. Exploring Italy, Ireland, Spain, France, and Great Britain from behind the wheel, each guide allows visitors to unearth the true soul of each country.

How often do we fly in and out of a single city without exploring the landscapes and cultures that gave birth to it?  Discovering a country through the back roads and byways lets travelers slow down and savor the essence of a place through breathtaking scenery, historical treasures, local hospitality, and regional cuisine.

In each full-color guide, 25 leisurely drives, lasting between one and seven days, cover a remarkable variety of landscapes and themes. While some may take in world-famous cities and sights, others get truly off the beaten track. But whether it’s a 2-day exploration of Umbria’s gourmet villages or a 7-day coast-to-coast drive along the mountain passes of the Pyrenees, every tour is bursting with insider knowledge from DK’s locals-only authors.

What makes Back Roads newsworthy and, well, different? The series addresses—practically, and with DK’s signature aesthetic rigor—many current travel trends: the ever-more-popular slow travel movement, the perennial yen to find locals-only beaches, and the desire to engage more fully with a destination through artisanal foods and wines, and people. Also, the books’ format makes it easy and fun for travelers to chart their own route using the pull-out country map included in each guide, personalizing a trip to their schedule and interests.