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The Rough Guide to Cuba (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Customer Review: Not perfect - but as good as you’re likely to get
I’ve just used this book to help me in my travels round Cuba and while it’s not perfect, it was invaluable. The potted histories and local insights are all as well written as you would expect from the Rough Guides.
The book’s usefulness is, admittedly, limited by the rapidly changing nature of much of Cuba. Paladars (the privately run restaurants) open and close all the time, musicians spring up here and there and then vanish again apparently without warning. And such seems to be the way of things in Cuba at the moment - all part of the charm. You just have to go with the flow and sometimes you strike gold, other times you find that the gold has moved on.
This guide contains accurate maps (better than many tourist maps available in Cuba - one good reason to buy it) and fair assessments of the more stable attractions such as museums, hotels etc, and that’s about as good as you can hope for in a rapidly changing country.
To my knowledge the Rough Guide is currently a more recent edition than offered by its main competitors which in my opinion is a big selling point, given the changing nature of Cuba. If you’re going, I recommend it. Don’t rely solely on local maps and guidebooks which aren’t plentiful and also tend to be slanted to emphasise what the Cubans think we tourists want to see and what they want to show off.
Customer Review: A Rough Guide not quite up to usual standard
This guide book is not as reliable as others in this normally excellent series. It tends to over-rate some of the sights - such as the comically old-fashioned Camilo-Che room in the Museum of the Revolution, and the restaurant recommendations are often wayward. The text often contradicts itself, and among the unmissable recommendations at the beginning of the book there are sights which are hardly remarkable.
This being said it is the most thorough guide book for Cuba, and is awash with listings.
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South American Handbook (Footprint Travel Guide)
The South American Handbook was first produced in the 1920s, and has been an essential part of travellers’ luggage almost ever since. For the 2000 edition, the old hardback format has been replaced by a less weighty soft-cover version, and for the first time there is a range of superb photographs showing off South America at its best, together with all the old features which make The Handbook so special.
Perhaps because of its history, The Handbook manages to do justice to the complexities of history, economics and politics of a region, while at the same time providing the essentials which are the staple of most of its competitors. Most guidebooks trying to cover a land-mass as vast and varied as South America end up as garbled and piecemeal editions which totally fail to do justice to the area and are completely inadequate when it comes to any attraction which is off the beaten track. The Handbook, however, manages to provide crucial information listings and a broader range of accommodation and entertainment options than other guides possess, without losing its knack for leading you away from the favourite haunts of travellers to places which are genuinely remote.
This is far and away the leader for guides on the region, and has a position which will be very hard to challenge. If you are packing only one guidebook for your trip to South America, this is the one to take. –Toby Green
Customer Review: The Best Travel Guide to South America
I used the 2006 edition last year for six months of travelling the continent. Most of my travelling was done overland, without booking accommodation in advance. If you’re thinking of doing the same then this is the guidebook for you. Its accommodation listings are more comprehensive than any other guide to the region. Importantly, it tells you clearly how long journeys are likely to take. The history and cultural commentaries are always well written and informative. Recommendations are usually reliable. I only encountered two errors in 190 days - a business had closed down and a border post had changed its policy. Other than that everything was spot on and in my opinion, its maps were more accurate than RG’s and LP’s. The large area, colour maps were particularly useful in getting an overview of your journey ahead. You only have to compare Footprint’s page count with its competitors to realise it’ll be the best thing you pack before flying off to this amazing part of the world.
Customer Review: Comprehensive and easy to use - good value
This guide isn’t produced by one of the more obvious travel publishers (naming no names!) but that shouldn’t put you off as it’s just the best guidebook on South America there is. It’s accurate, as up to date as it’s possible to be with a print edition, the sections on culture and history help pass the time on buses, what more can you ask for? Not as many pretty pictures as some other guidebooks, but then that’s not what you buy it for, is it?
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The Rough Guide to France (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Customer Review: Detailed, up-to-date and consistently reliable
Initially, I thought that France couldn’t be summed up in one book and certainly would not go in to as much depth as separate publications on different parts of France (e.g. Rough Guide to the Loire etc.)- but this guide is one of the most detailed and reliable sources I’ve ever used.
Although information is condensed - the guide comprehensively covers both the large city areas (rigorously) and the smallest of villages (with useful information and pointers of where to find more information)
The format of the guide is the same as that of previous publications - which, is helpfully easy to navigate.
The book is thorough and up-to-date - with no mistakes (based on my trips since I have bought the book) and without doubt should be an essential part of your hand luggage!
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Travels with Herodotus
Customer Review: The Histories in the Modern World
This is an unusual book, a memoir of an extraordinary life on the cusp of world events, interwoven with the fabric of Herodotus’s Histories, a book given to the author early in his journalistic career. Kapuscinski has provided some of the most perceptive observations on the history of the second half of the 20th century and this beautifully written document provides us with an insight into his development from a young naive reporter in Poland to the alert instinctive scribe of his international reporting career. It seems that Herodotus, his constant companion, played a formative role in this progression. Herodotus’s Histories are written in an intriguing style in which many interleaving strands come to their natural conclusions at the end of each section and in which no seemingly insignificant detail is too slight to mention. Kapuscinski in some ways follows this stylistic approach with what appear frequently to be digressions from the main text demonstrating their profundity as you conclude the chapter. The descriptions of ordinary and extraordinary events in Kapuscinski’s life, Louis Armstrongs’s concert in Khartoum, being fleeced by a secret policeman in Cairo and his arrival at the epicentre of a coup in Algiers reflect the humanity of the writer at the centre of frequently appaling events. However, the perspective of Herodotus in placing man’s inhumanity in context is never far away from the centre of the narrative. Several themes predominate in his musings on the Histories. Firstly, the inability of great leaders to take good advice as frequently reflected in adverse decisions made by Persian emporors Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes in their attempts at world domination. Secondly, random events of outrageous cruelty perhaps best exemplified by the mutilation of Xerxes sister in law by his jealous wife and by Xerxes’s subsequent killing of his brother and his family. Thirdly, the seemingly random events on which the course of history depends - a hare darts out as the Scythian warriors prepare to defend their land from the Persians; the Scythians ignore the Persian army to chase the hare, spooking the Persians completely, so that they retreat. The requirement for slaves in the creation of this ancient world would of course have resonance for the writer of Imperium, which details at an early stage the forced deportations of so-called dissidents including his former school teacher from Poland. As this is Kapuscinski’s last work, it is tempting to speculate that perhaps the unstated message is that nothing has changed since The Histories and that he is subliminally tieing a thread between recent events in the world and the events detailed by Herodotus. This is a wonderful book, at one level deceptively easy to read but ultimately profoundly stimulating, provocative and immensely human, a cultural mirror in which much of the modern world is reflected.
Customer Review: A lovely final work
Ryszard Kapinscinski was made Poland’s journalist of the century in 1999 and judging by his writing must have been truly deserved. He wrote thrillingly of his travels as a foreign correspondant in the worlds toughest countries. Sadly ‘Travels’ is his final book due to his death in January this year.
Having recently read Shadow of the Sun I was eager to seek out more of his writing and was therefore delighted that this publication from 2004 has been translated. It does not disappoint.
This non fiction book covers three areas. His youth in post war Poland, his travels as a reporter for PAP in the 50s and early 60s and through out the book it is bulked up by his musings on the travels of the 3rd Century BC Greek Herodotus. All of this make fascinating and gripping reading.
RK always writes with humility and understanding of the hardship and bleak poverty he encounters. His empathy clearly stems from his childhood in Poland and he relates a moving story about himself at 10 years old with no shoes trying to fund a new pair for the cold winter by selling green home made soap door to door with very little luck. His stoicism in these harsh circumstances must have helped to give him his unique and intrepid personality. He goes forth with a sort of naive bravado setting foot in countries where there is civil war, disease and unbearable climate and in the begining at least unable to speak any language but Polish and Russian.
The stories of Herodotus are interspersed thorughout and are not always obviously relevant. Nevertheless it has made me want to read more about the Greek and I will be seeking a copy soon.
RK has perfected a simplicity of writing which is always interesting. He give the reader gold nuggets of information and insights into other worlds. His slightly gullible nature often leads to near misses including a close shave after being lured to the top of a ramshackle disused minaret in Egypt by a dodgy character.
This is a lovely final work by a great journalist.
From his thought of Herodotus - ‘His most important discovery and that one must learn about them, because these other worlds, these other cultures are mirrors in which we can see ourselves. Thanks to which we understand ourselves better - for we cannot define our own identity until having confronted that of others as comparison’.
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The Rough Guide to California: Includes Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Customer Review: missing key information
I was really disappointed with this book, as I have had great experience with Rough Guide's to other places in the past.
There's a lot of general observation without the useful information you need as a traveller, eg. it'll tell you that california's a good place to surf but doesn't include any info on where to hire equipment, take lessons etc.
Cross-referencing between maps and restaurants is in places non-existent which is pretty annoying as well.
Customer Review: An excellent guide to Calafornia, Grand Canyon and Las Vegas
A very informative guide to Calafornia, Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. This book includes all of the attractions of these areas, useful travel information and accomodation reccomendations.
A must have if you are visiting the areas covered.
The only downside of the Rough Guide being the layout is not as structured as the Lonely Planet Guides. However, this book is devoted to the above areas, a Lonely Planet Guide does not exist specifically for these areas.
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Travels in the Scriptorium
Customer Review: Metaficition, not better fiction
Paul Auster is capable of exquisite storytelling, but I found this one hard work.
Mr Blank finds himself in a locked room, unable to remember how he got there - or much else. Some of the objects in the room have written labels to indicate what they are called. (For those of you who don’t recall their Philosophy of Language 101 we’re being told to explore the relationship between the physical world and words - and blow me down, it gets even cleverer - occurring in a fictional universe, a construct of language and the author’s imagination!)
The cast of characters that visit Blank in his room are drawn from Auster’s previous works. Reviewers elsewhere with far more patience and application than me have listed the novels from whence they’ve all sprung. But essentially, we’ve got an exercise in self-referencing that may tickle the obsessive pedants amongst you, but will leave those hoping for a good yarn cold.
This should appeal to Auster readers that would list `The New York Trilogy’ as his best work (I wouldn’t). For me, various goings-on in a locked room have limited appeal, but the book is as well-crafted and readable as one expects from Auster. It also has the redeeming quality of being short: those who enjoy it may re-read it all the sooner and those who do not have little cause to rue too much misspent reading time.
(Anyone utterly captivated by the central conceit of this novel should try the work of John Barth, especially his doorstep-sized offering `Letters’.)
This one wasn’t quite my cup of tea, but I’ll still give Auster’s next novel a go - I just hope he’ll be letting his characters get out more.
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Gulliver’s Travels (Penguin Popular Classics)
Customer Review: About the bigness of a Bristol barrel
It has been suggested that only one reader in ten thousand can appreciate the full merit of Gulliver’s Travels as it is a satire on forgotten politics. Do not be misled, this is a timeless classic. The absolute relation to the past whether to politics or otherwise is not an essential premise for one’s amusement of this book. The novel operates on many levels and the reader can easily make a rudimentary guess (without but usually with the aid of notes) at the satire. Political history has a reoccurring theme and much of what Swift wrote three hundred years ago resoundingly rings true today. We can plainly identify repeating general patterns and specific examples of events from the last three hundred years which mirror exactly what Swift alluded to -we do of course have the advantage of retrospection to amplify or even reassign the meaning.
The literal reading and interpretation of little people, giants, a flying island and talking horses can be dazzling. No-kidding, great imagination, marvellous observation and juxtapositional brilliance. Highlights are the whole of Part II and references to the ‘Academy’ in Part III (definite ‘laugh out loud’ humour).
Swift makes arguments and counter arguments along with very credible undisputable criticisms of humankind without preaching in a work of genius. There are lessons for us all here, we can take delight in the book and take heart from the value of its reading.
Customer Review: A word about the edition.
The literary worth of this text is beyond doubt. Rather than extol its merits - beyond the fact that Swift’s prose is of unsurpasssed clarity and elegance - I will warn prospective buyers that, for serious, or even intelligent, reading, this edition is unsuitable. An understanding of its contextual allusions and references is necessary to appreciate the satire of Gulliver’s Travels, but this edition is lacking in notes. Of course, it is ideal for children, but readers searching beyond the surface fable should look elsewhere. (Oxford University Press or Penguin Classics, I suggest.)
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The Rough Guide to Cuba (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Customer Review: Important errandum
I have yet to test this book in Cuba, although thus far it seems to be as thorough as any other rough guide I have used.
That said, on p63, the book claims $1 CUC is worth roughly ?1.80 GDP. The Cuban CUC is currently worth around ?0.53 and has been (more or less) for the past year. Perhaps the author converted the currencies the wrong way. This lead me to believe that everything in the book cost 4 times what it actually does. And almost made me consider changing my entire plans.
I always use Rough Guides, so this schoolboy error is rather disappointing. I’ll reserve judgement until I return from Cuba.
Customer Review: Not perfect - but as good as you’re likely to get
I’ve just used this book to help me in my travels round Cuba and while it’s not perfect, it was invaluable. The potted histories and local insights are all as well written as you would expect from the Rough Guides.
The book’s usefulness is, admittedly, limited by the rapidly changing nature of much of Cuba. Paladars (the privately run restaurants) open and close all the time, musicians spring up here and there and then vanish again apparently without warning. And such seems to be the way of things in Cuba at the moment - all part of the charm. You just have to go with the flow and sometimes you strike gold, other times you find that the gold has moved on.
This guide contains accurate maps (better than many tourist maps available in Cuba - one good reason to buy it) and fair assessments of the more stable attractions such as museums, hotels etc, and that’s about as good as you can hope for in a rapidly changing country.
To my knowledge the Rough Guide is currently a more recent edition than offered by its main competitors which in my opinion is a big selling point, given the changing nature of Cuba. If you’re going, I recommend it. Don’t rely solely on local maps and guidebooks which aren’t plentiful and also tend to be slanted to emphasise what the Cubans think we tourists want to see and what they want to show off.
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The Rough Guide to India (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Customer Review: Better than Lonley
My friends and I spent 3 months in India with both the Lonely Planet and the Rough Guide and 9 times out of 10 we referred to the Rough Guide. Fewer people carry the Rough Guide which means that the ‘unspoilt’ stuff remains less spoiled. The information is more reliable, the accomodation reviews are more accurate, and it’s lighter to carry.
Customer Review: A comprehensive guide to India
The Rough Guide to India (Rough Guide Travel Guides) is a comprehensive guide to India, a country which is diverse and boosts an ancient civiliisation dating millions years ago. The country is an experience of a lifetime for anyone who wants to visit a place filled with history, wide natural scenery (mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, beaches), arts, varied attractions and a diverse culture. Something you will treasure as a fond memory and breathtaking experience. The country at its present state is a fine blend of traditional and contemporary features. For example the Bollywood and the booming IT industry are a crucial part of India’s modern culture. The palaces and temples are a valuable part of India’s rich history and heritage.
The Rough guide equipped you with much information as possible about the country, main attractions, travel tips, visas, shopping, restaurant & bars, accommodation, transport and an insight into the main areas of India. There is so much to do and see in India, as clearly indicated in the guide. The guide is simple and well laid out with concise text, complimented by pictures and diagrams. Although English is widely spoken in India, it is useful if you can speak Hindi in India. There are some everyday phrases that is used in the daily lives of India people in the book.
Overall, this guide proved to be a valuable aid for my trip to India in February. All the information I need is available in the guide. What better way to kick start a trip to India. I could not ask for any more.
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