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Title: Lonely Planet Walking in Spain (2nd Ed) by Miles Roddis, Jose Placer, Nancy Frey, Nancy Frey, Matthew R. Fletcher, Matt Fletcher ISBN: 0-86442-543-0 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great and lightweight
Comment: I think some of the reviewers' comments below are probably correct but none of them are serious drawbacks. True, the maps in this guide are not EXTREMELY detailed, but if you want a really detailed topographical map, you can always get one. The actual trail descriptions in this book are painstakingly detailed -- it even gets tedious. So if you can't find every tree along your route marked on the maps here, just use your imagination a little and wing it.
"Walking in Spain" describes thirty or so of the best trails in Spain, highlighting trails in Mallorca, the Alpujarras Mountains of Andalusia, the area around Valencia, Castile's Sierra de Gredos and Sierra de Guadarrama, the Spanish Pyrenees, Galicia, and the Cordillera Cantábrica. Hikes vary from longer hauls like the 23-day Pyrenean traverse and the month-long Camino de Santiago to shorter 5- and 6-day hikes and walks you can do in less than a day.
I've used the guide to get some great ideas for an upcoming hiking trip to the Alpujarras Mountains and the Sierra Nevada and have found it extremely useful. It lists numerous places to stay, ranging from 30- and 40-euro "pensiones" to dirt-cheap hikers' "albergues". You're not going to find a list of every single cheap place to crash your head here (if you did, you would have a book twice as big as this one), but you won't find yourself stranded. There's also a bunch of affordable eating places listed in this book.
A plus for hikers who want to tackle all or part of the famous St. James pilgrimage route is that the guide's recommended day-to-day itinerary drops you off at the end of each day in towns where you can get food and water. A chart also shows the distance between each official "albergue" and the next.
This book comes up a little short on cultural information, but you can always take a look at Lonely Planet's general guide to Spain. Recommended. Five stars.
Rating: 4
Summary: For Camino de Santiago, still excellent info in 37 pages
Comment: I walked the Camino in 2001, using the 36 pages of the 2nd edition guide, in conjuction with the Confraternity of St. James Camino Frances. I found a large amount of excellent info in the 36 pages, and have been recommending it on our Camino web page ever since. The refugios change so rapidly that you shouldn't rely just on one guide. When I saw the recent negative review from a 2003 pilgrim, I went out and bought the 3rd edition, to see if there were drastic changes. The changes were few, and were all improvements - a list of refugios at the beginning, bolder print on the maps, so they are easier to read, slight rewording of some of the text. The authors of the Camino segment are still Nancy Frey and Jose Placer. Nancy has a PhD from University of California, Berkeley, and has written a well respected book on the Camino: Pilgrim Stories. The two of them own the On Foot In Spain adventure company and personally lead walks on the Camino and other treks in Spain. The history in the Lonely Planet segment is authentic, though necessarily condensed. I stand by my original recommendation. In addition to these 37 pages, get the Confraternity Camino Frances guide, and get either Davies and Cole's guide or John Brierley's guide.
You will find some errors or changes needed in all of these guides, due to conditions changing on the trail, overlooked typos, etc. When you do, help future pilgrims by sending an email to the publication's website so that they can revise the next edition.
Rating: 1
Summary: Lonely Planet's Worst Offering
Comment: I am walking the Camino de Santiago now and can only comment on the Lonely Planet in this context. Day after day I become more convinced that Lonely Planet's researchers have never been on the Camino. They make much of the albergues or refugios but all this information is printed on the back of pilgrims' credencial (price one euro not 25 cents as LP claim). All of the other places where one might stay are hardly mentioned if at all. Punte Reina is described as a one street village, absolutely wrong! The trail leaving the same town is totally mis-described and all the trail mythology plagiarised from other sources takes up space that might be given over to hard facts. Distances are frequently misleading because of sloppy language. A typical example, is something like ¨"start from the crossroads, you'll pass x, y and z and continue for 5 kms to reach a crossroads¨." So where does the 5 kms start, at the crossroads or is it x,y and z? Whichever you choose you'll be wrong, there's no consistency. It happens time after time. An iron bridge near Estella is described as wooden. All small errors you may say but it just piles up day after day. Do not waste money on this useless book. What you need to know is what awaits you at the end of each day when you struugle into the next place after 20 or 30 kms only to read more vague errors from this.
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Title: Walking the Camino de Santiago by Bethan Davies, Ben Cole ISBN: 097316980X Publisher: Pili Pala Press Pub. Date: 03 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago : The Complete Cultural Handbook by David M. Gitlitz, Linda Kay Davidson ISBN: 0312254164 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago De Compostela by William Melczer ISBN: 0934977259 Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: A Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino Frances: From St. Jean Pied De Port to Santiago De Compostela by John Brierley ISBN: 1844090108 Publisher: Findhorn Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Spain (Spain, 4th Ed) by Damien Simonis, Fiona Adams, Susan Forsyth, John Noble, Miles Roddis, Elizabeth Swan, Lonely Planet ISBN: 1740593375 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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