It is difficult to view Insight Guides generally as the ideal travelling companions; one needs to travel with something more detailed to visit an unusual place like Sardinia properly, (and Insight's rather poor indexing does not help). Even so, this guide, like others in the series, does provide a great deal of essential background information about the culture and unique sights of the island. If the result is something which could appear to be neither fish nor fowl, it has to be said that the wildness and sense of a place apart that pervades Sardinia is something difficult to convey in a guide. Nuraghi, perhaps, are the most obvious manifestation of this, (unless you have a recording or Sardinian music), but examples of the other enigmatic sights - domus de janas, tombe di giganti, well temples and the like - are frequently difficult to reach. This is also true of some of the Pisan Romanesque churches which are as much a part of the place but in such contrast to the prehistory. All of this is perfectly adequately described and illustrated by the Insight Guide. Perhaps if one reads this as background before or after a visit and uses something with more detail to actually find one's way around the sights of Sardinia, one has the best compromise. ( )

If you have a perverse interest in local churches, and travels around the world mainly to see them all; then this book is aimed at you.
To me, who traveled the island by train and bus and who was more interested in natural vistas, nice small towns and the over all experience of going to a new place it was almost a waste. ( )