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Title: Lonely Planet India (India, 10th Ed) by Sarina Singh, Arnold Barkhordarian, Charlotte Beech ISBN: 1-74059-421-5 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (30 reviews)
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I used the 98 edition while travelling in Sept/Oct 99 and found it extremely informative even though the prices were outdated.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: 4
Summary: An excellent accomplishment, heavy but well worth it
Comment: This edition of "Lonely Planet India" is better than the previous one, which was very very good itself. Despite the immensity of India and the numberless topics and regions that therefore have to be covered, the authors have done an excellent job indeed. Some weaknesses are inevitable, and this is perhaps why this is not one of LP's masterpieces, but it is indeed inevitable for travel guidebooks to be the better, the smaller the region they cover - this is why this book should perhaps be complemented with the individual LP guides to different Indian regions. But in itself, this book does cover most of what a visitor will need or want to know. And in a place that is chaotic and tough for foreigners like India, this may indeed be an essential tool for the less experienced travellers. The coverage of places to stay and eat is absolutely excellent, not just for the major cities but also for minor towns and sites (the authors would indeed seem to have been on every single square foot of land in India !). The section on permits and other legal matters is of immense value to anyone, and well up-to-date. And of course, the sections and special chapters on history, culture, religion, are extremely well written, great for the traveller and the armchair reader alike. Even though the best discoveries are those a traveller will make herself / himself, this guidebook is surely a great tool and help in anyone's discovery of this wonderful land. All in all, a masterpiece despite its limitations. A weakness is of course that things being as they are in India, information is subject to change, and some may have become out-of-date by the time this book was printed. But this is of course inevitable, and it simply means that - as in any country - a traveller should not rely on only a guidebook, but make a considerable effort to grasp as much as possible of current circumstances on her / his own.
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: 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: 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 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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