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Russia and Belarus (Lonely Planet Country Guide) by: Patrick Horton, Steve Kokker, John Noble, Louis Regis, Mark Elliott, Mara Vorhees, Simon Richmond List Price: £19.99 City Travel Guides Price: £9.99 You Save: £10.00 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914.70486 EAN: 9781741042917 ISBN: 1741042917 Label: Lonely Planet Publications Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 792 Publication Date: March 01, 2006 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Studio: Lonely Planet Publications Sales Rank: 78112 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Synopsis: Part of the Lonely Planet Country Guide Series. Best-selling guide to Russia, and increasingly popular travel destination packed with tips on activities and culture. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Notice that the other reviews apply to the old editionThe three reviews below refer to the old edition of this book. The new version has been entirely rewritten and re-researched. As part of the team who helped write it I should leave the reviews to other people, but I think the criticism of not including Ukraine is quite unfair given that the book never claims to do so! Rating:  - IgnominiousA few days ago I bought "Russia & Belarus". The guide is "technically" good (it has lots of useful information about these two great countries), but I'm completely dissaponted with my adquisition because: 1.- It seems that authors think that they are still living in "cold war times", and that Russia is the enemy. For example: "The first stations are so deep because they were designed to double as bomb shelters (you'll notice the newer stations aren't as deep after it was realised you just couldn't dig down far enough to escape a hail of American nuclear bombs)". Incredible! 2.- It seems that author think that russians are "wild people", beeing american and british people the only civilized ... Read More: Rating: - Russia and Belarus sortedThis book is excellant it covers comprehensivly Russia and Belarus. It has great depth covering Siberia, the Russian Far East and the ural region as well as the population centers of Western Russia. There is a seperate lonely planet book covering exclusivly the Ukraine as well as it being in the Eastern Europe book. Rating:  - Do go to Kiev, but not with this bookKiev is wonderful but for the Lonely Planet's latest edition the section on the Ukraine is missing- Ukraine is now in the East Europe Lonely Planet |
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