NEW YORK -- Considering a river cruise abroad? The editors of Insight Guides have just published a new book called "Great River Cruises: Europe & the Nile" ($23.95), and they've put together a list of the top 10 places to take a river cruise. They are:

The Wachau Valley, a stretch of the Danube River in Austria.

The Danube Bend, where the river runs past the Borzsony and Cserhat Hills to the north of Budapest, Hungary.

The Iron Gates, a gorge (also on the Danube) between Serbia and Romania.

The Rhine between Mainz and Koblenz, Germany.

The Elbe, south of Dresden, Germany.

The Rhone, from Vienne to Tournon in southern France.

The Douro, from Peso da Regua to Pinhao in northern Portugal.

The Caledonian Canal and Loch Ness, part of the Great Glen bisecting Scotland amid the Highlands.

Kizhi Island, in Lake Onega, a stop along a popular Russian cruise itinerary following various waterways from Moscow to St. Petersburg, including the Kovzha River, which flows into the lake.

The Nile between Aswan and Luxor in Upper Egypt.