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Puerto Rico Insight Guide by: Langenscheidt List Price: CDN$ 26.95 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 16.98 You Save: CDN$9.97 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Turtleback Dewey Decimal Number: 917 EAN: 9789812586797 ISBN: 9812586792 Label: Langenscheidt Manufacturer: Langenscheidt Number Of Pages: 296 Publication Date: December 15, 2007 Publisher: Langenscheidt Studio: Langenscheidt Sales Rank: 51358 Browse for similar items by category:
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 Rating: - The guide I recommend for my travel course to P.R.I was a professor at the Univ. of Puerto Rico during the 1980s, and return occasionally for scientific work. I also teach a Tropical Biology course every other year that includes spring break in Puerto Rico. I've read about eight guides to Puerto Rico and nearby islands, and I think this is the best in terms of accurately reviewing history, culture, and some of the biology and geology. The photographs are extraordinary, and really capture the island in all its facets. This Guide also gives the best information about each town's history and points of interest. It probably devotes the least space to casinos and cruise ship information, but I see that as a strength. I want my students to develop some understanding of the history and culture of ... Read More: Rating: - Pictorial Tour of the Island of EnchantmentKnown for their numerous photographs, researched facts, and great coverage of historical and cultural items, the "Insight Guides" series has covered almost every nation on earth with wonderfully. Their "Insight Guide to Puerto Rico" was especially much more fascinating to me since they covered a lot of things and places I did not know about my homeland. Beautifully binded, full of colorful photographs and drawings, and informative, this guide allowed me to explore more towns, sites, and places that are usually off the beaten track for a normal tourist. Their coverage of Puerto Rico's satellite islands: Vieques, Culebra, and Mona, was very interesting, and I was happy to see Mona in photographs, because it is rarely ... Read More: |
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