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Title: Lonely Planet Mongolia by Robert Storey, Bradley Mayhew ISBN: 1-86450-064-6 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A sad exercise in ethnocentricity.
Comment: Lonely Planet guides are targeted at your average traveller interested in the usual attractions. Happily enough for them, their guides satisfy a good 80% of visitors to a said country. More intrepid travellers would be found wanting.
Sadly enough, the average visitor to Mongolia is likely to be more adventurous than those to other destinations. Herein lies the failure of applying the same formulaic approach when writing a guide on Mongolia. The tone of the book assumes that the reader has to be dragged kicking and screaming into this "God-forsaken" land of fermented milk and crumbling post-soviet era apartment blocks.
Taking into account varying degrees of "tolerence" to the harsh weather and unfamiliar cuisines seems to be an ongoing theme. The writers forget that some 70 odd years of Soviet influence has introduced western style breads, jams, pickled vegetables etc, which are readily available at most aimag capitals. Indeed, the market in Bulgan city was very well stocked. (at least in the summer and fall).
Granted that the country is ever-changing as it is thrust into the 21st Century, but one would expect that the approach to writing this guide would address this as well. Food options in UB are plentiful. Where there had been a handful of chinese restaurants as little as 2 years ago, at least 50 can be listed today.
So leave this guide at home, or better yet, bring it along so your Mongolian friends can share a good laugh.
Rating: 3
Summary: Could be better
Comment: There are some major problems with this book. It takes a condescending tone towards Mongolian culture/food/attractions from the average expectations for such things if you weren't in Mongolia. Lonely Planet compares Mongolia to the, say, average European country. The average traveler to Mongolia is not looking for an average European country. Taking this mode to guiding you through the country, cheapens the experience with unecessary and biased opinions. I found the maps to be pretty useful, and a good base for finding your way around the country. In the absence of other guide books to Mongolia, Lonely Planet is not a bad choice, if read with a grain of salt.
Rating: 1
Summary: This is very poor!
Comment: After the first disasterous edition of this book, which was loaded with facetious and patronizing remarks and riddled with errors, and then the second edition, which was still very negative and still riddled with errors, I would have thought the third edition would be better. I was wrong. Has Lonely Planet ever considered getting a Mongolian to write their guide to Mongolia? I am sure there are a lot of Mongolians who could do a better job than these two clowns.
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Title: Lonely Planet Mongolian Phrasebook (Mongolian Phrasebook) by Alan J.K. Sanders, J. Bat-Ireediu ISBN: 086442308X Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Mongolia: Empire of the Steppes (Odyssey Illustrated Guides) by Claire Sermier, Helen Loveday ISBN: 9622176895 Publisher: Odyssey Publications Pub. Date: 20 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway: A Classic Overland Route (Trans-Siberian Railway, 1st Ed) by Simon Richmond, Mara Vorhees ISBN: 1864503351 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Trans-Siberian Handbook, 6th: Includes Rail Route Guide and 25 City Guides by Bryn Thomas ISBN: 1873756704 Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: In The Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History by Stanley Stewart ISBN: 1585747033 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 18 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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