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Title: India by Geof Crowther, Geoff Crowther, Tony Wheeler ISBN: 0-86442-081-1 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (30 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: the hippie's bible for India
Comment: It's both amazing and pathetic how many rucksack travelers to India follow every word of this book as if it were some holy scripture. So many travelers spend their all of their time with their noses in this book, trying to fill every last moment following each and every step recommended by the book. In the meantime, all too often, they fail to experience India itself. Such devotion to a travel guide is a bizarre phenomenon. Without a doubt, this book is an indispensible guide for those who truly need assistance in knowing on which Bombay street corner they should tie their shoe laces. There's too much chit chat and lame humour in this book (although, granted, it evidently appeals to some). To the book's credit, there are some nice city layouts and state maps. However, for travelers who prefer information without all of the weak attempts at humor and for those who prefer to make their own opinions rather than to blindly follow someone else's words, I would wholeheartedly recommend Robert Bradnock's India Handbook. I've traveled India with both books, and clearly Bradnock's is, in my opinion, the superior of the two.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read it all before you go (but don't take it all with you)
Comment: I used the 98 edition while travelling in Sept/Oct 99 and found it extremely informative even though the prices were outdated. Prices may change overnight but 1,000 year-old temple ruins probably won't. It did seem as though every other traveler (and hotel owner and rickshaw driver...) owned a copy, yet it provided an excellent orientation to the places I visited and served as a great reference tool for further exploration.
The maps were better than anything I found locally and the cultural info was very helpful.
The book is bulky/heavy but tearing out key sections can easily solve this. I cut my book in half this way and got lots of envious stares from others lugging their entire LP or Rough Guide around and actually referring to maybe a third of it.
Get this book, get the LP Hindi-Urdu phrase book, but skip the LP travel atlas unless you want to walk across India.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent resource
Comment: Anyone planning a trip to India would be wise to take this book along. Start reading it a couple months before the trip (it's a thick book) and take it with you everywhere you go in India. I promise, any question you have, it will answer. Anytime I needed some information on language, customs, curiosities, cuisine, health issues, or even what time the local museum opens (I visited the Orissa State Museum in Bhubaneshwar), I found the info I needed. I like to refer back to it every now and then to dazzle my Indian friends with my knowledge of India and her culture (sometimes I even know more than they do!)
And I learned it all from this book. This is the 9th edition; in my opinion the 10th edition has a prettier picture on the cover. But the info in this one is reliable and insightful.
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Title: Eyewitness Travel Guides: India (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Abha Narain Lamba, Dorling Kindersley Publishing ISBN: 0789483955 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Nepal (LONELY PLANET NEPAL) by Bradley Mayhew, Lindsay Brown, Wanda Vivequin ISBN: 1740594223 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Culture Shock: India (Culture Shock! Guides) by Gitanjal Kolanad, Gitanjali Kolanad ISBN: 1558686193 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Hindi & Urdu Phrasebook (2nd Ed) by Richard Delacy ISBN: 0864424256 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Thailand (Thailand, 10th Ed) by Joe Cummings, Sandra Bao, Steven Martin, China Williams ISBN: 1740593561 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.99 |
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