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.Croatia (The Bradt Travel Guide) (The Bradt Travel Guide)

by: Piers Letcher

May 15, 2007
I found this Bradt travel guide more comprehensive and accurate than many of the Lonely Planet or Rough Guides I've purchased in the past. The author seems genuinely interested in the country and I enjoyed reading the funny accounts of his experiences - both good and bad. The Practical Information section is particularly useful (I did't realise I needed vaccinations to visit Croatia until I'd read this!)
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.Zagreb (The Bradt City Guide) (The Bradt City Guide)

by: Piers Letcher, Sarah Parkes

April 15, 2007

My niece Sophie recently travelled to Zagreb, and this book was with her every minute (I recommended it to her before she left). Don't leave home (for Zagreb anyway) without it!!
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.Dubrovnik (The Bradt City Guide) (The Bradt City Guide)

by: Piers Letcher

May 15, 2007
Pocket-sized this guide undoubtedly is, but the Bradt City Guide to Dubrovnik struck me more as an over-priced pamphlet than as a book. Although it contains a few nuggets here and there, I found much of the information in it obvious and/or less than interesting.
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.Croatia (The Bradt Travel Guide)

by: Piers Letcher

March 31, 2005
We have just returned from a week's holiday in the Kornati archipelago in the Croatian Adriatic, taking this book with us. We found it an excellent companion, helpful and illuminating on everything from Croatia's history to the abrasiveness of the limestone rock which makes up the islands. The maps are excellent and very clear. Above all the author's affection for the country shines through and is very infectious.
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.Dubrovnik (Bradt Mini Guides)

by: Piers Letcher

2005-02
This is a must have for anyone holidaying in beautiful Dubrovnik.Piers Letcher is an excellent author,his reviews of local places to eat were spot on.He didn't shirk from describing the places to avoid either.
There are a few suggested tours to follow which I found very helpful.My girlfriend and I would definetely buy a guide from this author again.
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.Eccentric France (Bradt Travel Guide Eccentric France)

by: Piers Letcher

May 22, 2003
I once recommended this book to Eddie Izzard, but - more fool him - he didn't take up my recommendation there and then. "Why should I read it?" he asked me, thinking perhaps I was some strange, maybe eccentric person myself who was trying to foist something unpleasant on him just because he is famous. "Because," I said, "it's full of the most bizarre stuff, a perfect starting point for one of your flights of fancy." (My choice of phrase was influenced by my having just read Letcher's account of the last journey of the pioneering aviator Charles Nungesser, who on May 8th, 1927 set off from Le Bourget in a Levasseur biplane: "On the side was painted... a black heart containing a skull and crossbones, a coffin and two candles." He was never seen again. "What ... Read More:
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.Croatia (The Bradt Travel Guide)

by: Piers Letcher

February 20, 2003
The line betwen an excellent travel guide and an excellent piece of travel writing can be superbly erased at times. This book does that. I have read it from cover to cover at home just for the pleasure of reading it - that's the way it is with this writer's books. If, on a winter's night, a traveller finds himself sitting at home wishing he had a blazing fire to dream away the hours to, but he only has gas, then being whisked away by a guide who knows his stuff is perhaps the next best thing.

And Letcher knows his stuff. Because he has done the hard miles around this dramatic country, and shares his knowledge in a diverting, modern style which updates the works he cites as references and establishes this book as the new standard.

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.Step by Step Programming Z. X. Spectrum Plus: Graphics Bk. 4 (Screen Shot)

by: Piers Letcher

April 18, 1985
The line betwen an excellent travel guide and an excellent piece of travel writing can be superbly erased at times. This book does that. I have read it from cover to cover at home just for the pleasure of reading it - that's the way it is with this writer's books. If, on a winter's night, a traveller finds himself sitting at home wishing he had a blazing fire to dream away the hours to, but he only has gas, then being whisked away by a guide who knows his stuff is perhaps the next best thing.

And Letcher knows his stuff. Because he has done the hard miles around this dramatic country, and shares his knowledge in a diverting, modern style which updates the works he cites as references and establishes this book as the new standard.

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.Step by Step Programming Z. X. Spectrum Plus: Graphics Bk. 3 (Screen Shot)

by: Piers Letcher

April 18, 1985
The line betwen an excellent travel guide and an excellent piece of travel writing can be superbly erased at times. This book does that. I have read it from cover to cover at home just for the pleasure of reading it - that's the way it is with this writer's books. If, on a winter's night, a traveller finds himself sitting at home wishing he had a blazing fire to dream away the hours to, but he only has gas, then being whisked away by a guide who knows his stuff is perhaps the next best thing.

And Letcher knows his stuff. Because he has done the hard miles around this dramatic country, and shares his knowledge in a diverting, modern style which updates the works he cites as references and establishes this book as the new standard.

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.Yugoslavia: Mountain Walks and Historical Sites

by: Piers Letcher

1989-03
The line betwen an excellent travel guide and an excellent piece of travel writing can be superbly erased at times. This book does that. I have read it from cover to cover at home just for the pleasure of reading it - that's the way it is with this writer's books. If, on a winter's night, a traveller finds himself sitting at home wishing he had a blazing fire to dream away the hours to, but he only has gas, then being whisked away by a guide who knows his stuff is perhaps the next best thing.

And Letcher knows his stuff. Because he has done the hard miles around this dramatic country, and shares his knowledge in a diverting, modern style which updates the works he cites as references and establishes this book as the new standard.

I have ... Read More:
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