Travel Egypt Nile Cruise
Customer Review: Invaluable Information
I bought this book when i first booked my holiday. Read it and put it to one side. Remembered to pack it but didn’t look at it again. On the way home (14 February 2008) i remembered i had it and reread it………..my goodness this lady was on our cruise ship! Absolutely everything she said happened and her tips on fighting off the persistant sellers were spot-on!!! I would TOTALLY recommend this book if you are considering a Nile cruise - but don’t do what i did - buy it, read it, and take her at her word - everything she says is true. Have a fantastic holiday!

Customer Review: Good book for first time cruiser
I used the book in Egypt and found it an invaluable guide for any first-time traveller who is booked on a Nile Cruise. I found the information accurate and up-to-date and it saved me a lot of hassle. The author explains things in an easy to understand way and offers many helpful tips, especially with regarding to dealing with the more persistent Egyptians that work the tourist areas. And believe me I encountered more than my fair share of them! However as this is a specialised book, dealing specifically with a Nile Cruise I would suggest you use it in conjunction with one of the more general Egyptian travel guides such as Lonely Planet or the Rough Guide. Overall I found it an excellent book that was easily carried around in my bag and definitely helped me on my hols to Egypt!

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Jerusalem and the Holy Land (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Customer Review: Stunning guide to a stunning country
I love these guides - they’re the sort that I keep long after I have travelled to a place rather than discarding them as I do with many other brands (that seem to easily become dated and look dog-eared).

The Eyewitness guides are stunning books with plenty of beautiful photos and detailed writing about not just the areas but also the history and culture of places. Infact, I have bought some just because I am interested in looking at and learning about a place even if I haven’t been there yet.

With regards to this edition, I did live in Israel for 2 years (back in the early 90’s, after Uni) and so I bought this copy as I still have a passion for the region. I can’t comment on the accuracy of this recent edition as it is a long time since I was there, but going from memory, the detail confirms most of what I remember and I’m sure that there have been many changes and additions since then. Even so, I would highly recommend this book for the visuals alone. These are the sort of travel guides that you can treasure and look through without having to be planning a day out or a restaurant trip etc. I, personally, have got my moneys worth for the times I have looked through my copy (and reminissed).

Highly recommended.

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Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes from
Customer Review: Scattergun approach only just pays off.
I have enjoyed previous books by Fred Pearce, especially “When the rivers run dry”. This book is a mish mash affair, the author dotting around the world trying to find the background to where all that makes up his “stuff” comes from. Some of the stories are exteremely thought provoking - watch out for an impending world banana shortage by the way - and I learnt a lot about eco related issues that I hadn’t seen anywhere else, but the book itself somehow left me a bit cold. It appears to be a hurriedly put together collection of shorter pieces - at one stage the same bits of information are repeated on consecutive pages, and the M & S brand is Blue Harbour, not Blue Horizon. These are minor quibbles but serve to undermine the message being put across. I am not sure if this is meant to be a travel book, a collection of political essays or an anti-capitalist rant. No it’s definitely not a rant, because Mr Pearce comes across as a genuinely likeable sort of bloke with very similar tastes as mine in matters beer and whisky related! And therein perhaps lies the problem. A book that flits from discussions on whisky production, to coffee production in Kenya, to the sweatshops of Bangladesh is almost by definition going to either be too detailed to read or to be a bit of a hit and miss affair.

The bottom line, and the message of this book is, be aware of all, and Mr Pearce means ALL, the costs that go into subsidising our western way of life and ask yourself if you are prepared to pay them, because ultimately what ever you/we pay, our children will be paying an awful lot more.

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Prague Top 10 (Eyewitness Top Ten Travel Guides)
Customer Review: We Would Have Been Lost Without It
The thing I loved about this book was that we didn’t have to trawl through loads of writing to find out simple information. It made our visit to Prague stress free. Before our visit I knew nothing at all about Prague but once we were there we followed the book and got to see some amazing sites.

I would definately buy another Top 10 city guide.

Customer Review: A top 10 read but a top 1 must have
This is the second ‘Top 10′ book I have bought (the first being Chicago), and it is a must have if you need to know ‘the’ places to visit. Packed with top ten’s of almost every activity, it is well written without feeling the need to waffle.

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The Rough Guide to India (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Customer Review: a rough guide ….
Despite the inferior quality of the photo reproduction I’ve always thought that Rough Guide is better value than Lonely Planet. It is generally more informative, more erudite, and the style is arguably geared to a wider readership, while LP leans more towards backpackers and gap-year students. I also think LP is more prone to hyperbole while Rough Guide is normally unflinchingly honest about places. It’s perceived negativity is for me a bonus as it is often better to travel with lower or at least realistic expectations. As it says in the opening gambit, many travellers head for India expecting to ‘encounter a timeless ascetic wonderland and are surprised to find one of the most materialistic societies on the planet’. I think this is pretty spot-on. There is no point in going to India and not being prepared for the filth, pollution, traffic chaos and inequality otherwise you will quickly need to reevaluate your trip on arrival.

A couple of criticisms: Rough Guide hotel information can be a little out of date by the time of your visit. Research on updating hotel email addresses and websites should be more thorough, although the publishing schedules for books of this sort make it almost impossible to keep up with the rate of change in a country like India. Also, I think that Rough Guide would benefit more from a Le Routard-style rating system for monuments and cities. Although travelling is highly subjective, more editorial guidance would be helpful for the traveller to distinguish between cities like, for instance, Jodphur and Jaipur. Empirically, there is a massive difference, Jodphur is a much calmer, better-maintained, less-polluted and more hassle-free destination, but you can’t really predict this from the guide. Furthermore, this guide describes the lakes at Updaipur as “half-full” and a “trash-strewn puddle”. At the time of writing the lakes had been fully replenished by monsoon rains and are certainly an essential stop on any Rajasthan itinerary. Nevertheless, this is still the best product of its kind on the market and a must for all visitors.

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.

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The Art of Travel
The urge to be somewhere else is one of the abiding traits of human nature; in The Art of Travel author Alain de Botton (The Consolations of Philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life) sets out to discover why in his own inimitably witty and discursive way.

Of course, the proximate reasons we travel are many and various: as de Botton explains. Using the travel experiences of great writers and artists, like Van Gogh, Ruskin, Huysmans and Wordsworth (in Provence, Venice, Belgium and the Lake District respectively), de Botton shows that men will travel to see beautiful buildings, or climb beautiful mountains, or make love to beautiful (and comparatively amoral) women. But, using the same artists, de Botton also shows that there is an underlying theme to all travel: the urge for difference, for the rhapsody of change. That this is an urge more often disappointed than gratified only makes the condition more poignant. One of de Botton’s best chapters, on Flaubert, amplifies this tragicomic point: the French novelist spent enervating years in genteel Normandy longing for the sensual splendours of Egypt, then, when he finally reached the pyramids, he promptly lapsed into maudlin nostalgia for rainy, bourgeois Rouen.

If there are flaws in this, de Botton’s latest and perhaps most readable book, they are the usual suspects: just occasionally the author comes across as a bit long-winded and self-regarding. However, this is such a pleasant and effortless read even these flaws can be taken as endearing characteristics–like the lizards who kip in the bath in your otherwise idyllic holiday villa.–Sean Thomas

Customer Review: Even a happy traveller should enjoy Art of Travel
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Unlike De Botton, I’m seldom disappointed with my travels, but I share his curiosity about considering why we want to travel in the first place.

De Botton achieves this by reflections on the thoughts and experiences of other travellers, whether explorers, writers or other artists. What make The Art of Travel particularly enjoyable is the realisation that many before have gone through the trials and rewards of travelling.

Perhaps not surprisingly, De Botton identifies more with the trials. But he is a fine writer, and even the perpetually happy traveller should read this book.

Customer Review: Change your life (or alternatively easier just to change the way you look at it)
To anyone who watched the BBC coverage of Glastonbury 2007 (or been there), or who has had a less-than-perfect experience on a paradise-island beach this book is tip-top.

To anyone who has seen an awesome senset from 26,000ft- or met an interesting person on a train. Or seen an couple, or a house, or a scene from the window of your carriage and wondered about what lay beyond.

Try this book. It may reset your expectations of what you’re looking for and where to realistically find it, or show you new joy in daily travel.

Light-heared, touching and occasionally really meaningful. A gentle classic..

Iain

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