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.The Rough Guide to Australia (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

by: Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, David Leffman, Chris Scott

September 06, 2007
This guide book is the best I've read. The advice was invaluable and I trusted the recommendations, especially when it came to accommodation. It very quickly became my travelling companion and I followed its advice as much as I could. Don't leave home without it!
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.The Rough Guide to China (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

by: David Leffman, Simon Lewis

April 01, 2008
This guide book is the best I've read. The advice was invaluable and I trusted the recommendations, especially when it came to accommodation. It very quickly became my travelling companion and I followed its advice as much as I could. Don't leave home without it!
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.The Rough Guide to East Coast Australia

by: Emma Gregg, David Leffman, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Chris Scott

October 01, 2008
This guide book is the best I've read. The advice was invaluable and I trusted the recommendations, especially when it came to accommodation. It very quickly became my travelling companion and I followed its advice as much as I could. Don't leave home without it!
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.The Rough Guide to Iceland (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

by: David Leffman, James Proctor

March 29, 2007
We bought or borrowed various guidebooks to bring to Iceland but this was the one we used most as we travelled around the country.

It has a nice mix of practical details and interesting background. The maps are clear and the descriptions of places are accurate. The "highlights" at the start of each chapter are well chosen.

If you are only bringing one guidebook on your trip to Iceland, this is the one to have.
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.Rough Guide to Australia (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

by: Margo Daly, David Leffman, Anne Dehne, Chris Scott

November 06, 2003
bought my book from the book depository book excellent BUT in very poor condition top of the book was damaged and the last 300+ pages stuck together so spoils the look of the book.
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.The Rough Guide to China - 4th Edition

by: David Leffman, Simon Lewis

October 27, 2005
The guide was accurate and worth carrying around, but the maps were weak; low in detail and with place and street names only in English. This made them limited in usefulness when asking directions as most Chinese people can only read their native language. Cab drivers would just shrug their shoulders when shown a particular point on a map. The guide is also not as culturally savvy as Time Out guides or as to the point as DK travel guides I have used in the past. It's obviously written by early 20 somethings perceiving a place from the outside. My native Chinese friends ridiculed some of the cultural hints as being childish and irrelevant.

Overall I was pleased by this guide, just be aware of its limitations.
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.The Rough Guide to Australia (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

by: Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, David Leffman, Chris Scott

September 29, 2005
bought my book from the book depository book excellent BUT in very poor condition top of the book was damaged and the last 300+ pages stuck together so spoils the look of the book.
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.Hong Kong and Macau (Rough Guide DIRECTIONS)

by: David Leffman, Jules Brown

March 01, 2007
A neat, pocket sized guide that covers the essentials for a weekend; but really falls short on the mapping. It has very small local maps included in the text, but these are difficult to follow when walking as they omit many streets, only name some streets and do not join up.
It also seemed out of date, a couple of restaurants had vanished and new roads built, but of course Hong Kong is changing so quickly that this must be a problem that any guide faces.
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.China (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

by: Jeremy Atiyah, David Leffman, Simon Lewis

April 24, 2003
I am currently in china using this travel guide. It is not up to the usual standard of rough guides - much is out of date and the places it recommends are rarely anything special. A lot of places it says are "a great place to watch the chinese" - which is a lot less than the only thing I would want from a region. I recently went to Shanghai and there used the time out guide and found that the rough guide had barely touched the surface of the city. I have found China a lot less interesting and fun that elsewhere in Asia, and this guide certainly hasn't helped to change that view. Would recommend against this one - hopefully the new edition is much much better....
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.The Rough Guide to Australia (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

by: Margo Daly, Chris Scott, David Leffman, Anne Dehne

October 25, 2001
bought my book from the book depository book excellent BUT in very poor condition top of the book was damaged and the last 300+ pages stuck together so spoils the look of the book.
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