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.Galapagos Islands (Lonely Planet Watching Wildlife)
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by: David Andrew

November 01, 2005
Excellent read.
A must for pre trip reading.
Great details on locations of individual species.

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.The Rough Guide to the Caribbean: More Than 50 Islands, Including the Bahamas (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
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by: J. P. Anderson, Undeleeb Din, Natalie Folster

October 27, 2005
Excellent read.
A must for pre trip reading.
Great details on locations of individual species.

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.Mexico and Central America: 25 Ultimate Experiences (Rough Guide 25)
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by: Rough Guides

May 03, 2007
Excellent read.
A must for pre trip reading.
Great details on locations of individual species.

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.The Rough Guide to Peru (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
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by: Dilwyn Jenkins

September 28, 2006
I carried both this Rough Guide and the Footprint guide with me on a recent trip to Peru. In comparison, I found that the Rough Guide contained lots of annoying small editorial errors, e.g. a map printed the wrong way up, and was also often factually a bit out of date. However, the descriptions of the sights are covered in much more detail, as is the background info to Peru. It seems to me that the Rough Guide editors have done their homework on Peru, but perhaps not so much "fieldwork", meaning they don't seem to have checked the facts on the ground very thoroughly.

In the end I found it useful to have both guides: the Footprint for accurate travel info and the Rough Guide for more detailed descriptions of the sights.
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.Costa Rica (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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by: Christopher Baker

August 01, 2008
I carried both this Rough Guide and the Footprint guide with me on a recent trip to Peru. In comparison, I found that the Rough Guide contained lots of annoying small editorial errors, e.g. a map printed the wrong way up, and was also often factually a bit out of date. However, the descriptions of the sights are covered in much more detail, as is the background info to Peru. It seems to me that the Rough Guide editors have done their homework on Peru, but perhaps not so much "fieldwork", meaning they don't seem to have checked the facts on the ground very thoroughly.

In the end I found it useful to have both guides: the Footprint for accurate travel info and the Rough Guide for more detailed descriptions of the sights.
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."Time Out" Rio De Janeiro (Time Out Rio de Janeiro)
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by: Time Out Guides Ltd

October 04, 2007
I carried both this Rough Guide and the Footprint guide with me on a recent trip to Peru. In comparison, I found that the Rough Guide contained lots of annoying small editorial errors, e.g. a map printed the wrong way up, and was also often factually a bit out of date. However, the descriptions of the sights are covered in much more detail, as is the background info to Peru. It seems to me that the Rough Guide editors have done their homework on Peru, but perhaps not so much "fieldwork", meaning they don't seem to have checked the facts on the ground very thoroughly.

In the end I found it useful to have both guides: the Footprint for accurate travel info and the Rough Guide for more detailed descriptions of the sights.
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.Rand Mcnally Road Atlas: USA, Canada, Mexico (Rand McNally Road Atlas)
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from: Rand McNally & Company

May 15, 2008
I carried both this Rough Guide and the Footprint guide with me on a recent trip to Peru. In comparison, I found that the Rough Guide contained lots of annoying small editorial errors, e.g. a map printed the wrong way up, and was also often factually a bit out of date. However, the descriptions of the sights are covered in much more detail, as is the background info to Peru. It seems to me that the Rough Guide editors have done their homework on Peru, but perhaps not so much "fieldwork", meaning they don't seem to have checked the facts on the ground very thoroughly.

In the end I found it useful to have both guides: the Footprint for accurate travel info and the Rough Guide for more detailed descriptions of the sights.
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.Bandit Roads: Into the Lawless Heart of Mexico
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by: Richard Grant

June 05, 2008
There is one chapter in Bandit Roads( actually it's split over two chapters book ending the narrative) that is as tense, compelling and exciting as anything you will read in a thriller. This is mainly because it's the type of scenario you might read in a thriller except this actually happened. Even the fact that the reader knows the outcome doesn't lessen it's impact . I will not elucidate further (even though the books jacket and no doubt corresponding promotional blurb will do so) for fear of giving too many details away . The rest of the book , not too surprisingly ,struggles to match the beginning and conclusions visceral thrills yet despite this Bandit Roads is an engaging and educational read.
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.The Trail to Titicaca: A Journey Through South America (Summersdale Travel)
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by: Rupert John Attlee

November 29, 2001
I first read this book in early 2004 just a few months before I went travelling for the first time. It rare for me to read a book that lasts so long in the memory, I love reading travel books but this one is different, its funny, well written, caring and shows both sides of travel not just the glamourous side.
Everyone I travelled with I made read it and not one person had a bad comment to make about it. Whether your a big fan of South America or not just so long as you have even a small interest in travel and other countries you should read this book.
Amazing, buy it NOW!!!! You won`t regret it.
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.My Father's Island: A Galapagos Quest (Pelican Press): A Galapagos Quest
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by: Johanna Angermeyer

January 01, 2007
The author never knew her father, Hans Angermeyer, nor was she familiar with the circumstances of his last years or death. He was one of five brothers who left Nazi Germany in 1935, sailing to the Galapagos Islands to make a new home. In Ecuador, he married an American widow, Emmasha, who had a small son. They had one child and another on the way when war came. Emmasha and the children returned to the U.S.; Hans, a German national, was denied admittance. When the author was 13, the family returned to Ecuador and to the Galapagos for a meeting with relatives. Living on the island--even without amenities and with its perils--was paradise. Angermeyer learned to hunt, fish and enjoy a Robinson Crusoe-like existence. She gives an engaging account of ... Read More:
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