1. ISBN13: 9781400007233
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Editorial Review :

Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Kaua’i!

•Your vacation never looked better. This Fodor’s full-color guide paints an unforgettable picture of Kaua’i with vibrant maps, vividly illustrated features, and stunning color photos.

•Updated frequently, Fodor’s Kaua’i, 2nd Edition, provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

•Fodor’s Kaua’i, 2nd Edition features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Kaua’i.

Experience Kaua’i like a local! Fodor’s Kaua’i, 2nd Edition,includes unique photo-features that impart the island’s culture, covering the Napali Coast, the secluded beaches of the North Shore, the spectacular Waimea Canyon, and much more!

•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.

•Full-color pullout map

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Great

This book is very helpful. The book is very easy to use. Includes all addresses and phone numbers so you can call ahead. Also has great suggestons for daily activities, restaurants, hotels, and beaches. Worth every penny!

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Highly recommended

Very useful and only book to read n take to the trip includes all aspects of the trip u can think of. Great pictures and resourceful color map.

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Review of the service from shipper

WE did not get the book on the time, it was sent to us very late. We need to return the book.

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Good reference

Eyewitness always does a great job. Nice reference, but too big and heavy to carry on the trip.

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Eyewitness Australia

I love these "Eyewitness" books, and always like to buy them prior to traveling to a new country.
Mary

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Lots of Info?

This book has a great deal of good information for travel in Australia. Unfortunately, as is the case in most travel books. if the area you are interested in is one "less traveled" you may be disappointed in the scanty information supplied. In this case my chosen destination is the Northern Territories, particularly Darwin.

Once again my observation holds true. The descriptions are brief and limited. Not surprising. Not even my Aussie friends have traveled into the area. Wish buying a book would supply the info I seek. It really does require deeper research which on it's own can be fun.

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Australia (Eyewitness Travel Guide)

I'm planning a trip to Australia in Spring and wanted to learn as much as I could before I go. This book provides suggestions on restaurants, accommodations, shopping and entertainment, and includes maps, pictures and illustrations listing important sights to see. It also has a section entitled "Practical Information" which contains useful information on banking & currency, personal security & health, and Australian telephone & postal systems. I highly recommend this book as a 'must-have' for anyone planning a trip to Australia!

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1. ISBN13: 9781741047936
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Editorial Review :

Nobody knows Fiji like Lonely Planet, and our 8th edition offers the best of these island paradises. Whether that's surfing world-class breaks in the Mamanucas, island hopping in search of your perfect Yasawa beach, exploring the lush interior of Taveuni or discovering Suva's best nightspots - you decide.

Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.

In This Guide:

Sailing information for yachties and tips on how to join as crew
Color highlights help you plan your trip
Green Index to help make your travels ecofriendly

Customer Review :

Finally, Lonely Planet gets back to where it belongs as the best of travel books

I've been thinking about going to Fiji for a number of years now, and despite Lonely Planet's stumbling as of late with the quality of their travel books, I feel this is back to meeting the standards which we expect for Lonely Planet. There's a wealth of information, and on my quick spotchecks of hotels, how to get from A to B and activities, the information was accurate.

I'm quite impressed with the depth of the book, and instead of a high-level overview dedicated to tourists who will never venture off the beaten path, it seems that the authors really did their homework. I feel confident that I can use this book as a primary source of information and my "go to" reference.

Now comes the bad part: Actually having to save up for the trip to Fiji.

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Awesome!

Great book, gave us a lot of information about where we were staying and where to travel!

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Editorial Review :

DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip.

Each guide is packed with the up-to-date, reliable destination information every traveler needs, including extensive hotel and restaurant listings, themed itineraries, lush photography, and numerous maps.

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A Gift from the Gods... Bali and Lombok

Bali and Lombok are just two islands in the Indonesian archipelago... and one of the most popular tourst destination. This book is crammed with wonderful information as well as photographs by well known photographers, maps, drawing etc... of Bali and Lombok. I found it very wonderful that it covered both aspects of Bali and Lombok's culture regarding religion, music, dance etc... The book is much different from Lonely Planet with maps in colour with icons regarding the village and what the villages are well known for. For example the village of Taro in central Bali in Gianyar Regency is famous for it's white breed of Cattle and there is a little bit of information talking about that village. The book covers all of Bali as well as Lombok.

Denpasar Bali's capital contains many sections like the Museum... the market and so many places of interest. For Kuta its beaches which are popular with many Australians and well known for the surfs... Gianyar regency in central Bali was well known for it's cultural and artistic creation. The famous village of Sebatu and Peliatan are famous for their Legong Kraton dancers... wonderful and graceful like butterflies or heavenly nymphs... Klungkung regency in east Bali was home to the powerful rulers with the title of "Agung Dewa" and most revered... Klungkung was a historical city and site where the golen age of Balinese history began the mass exodus of many Hindu-Javanese fleeing Islam came to the royal court bringing their traditions and tansplanting it in Bali while the ancient art form disappeared from the island of Java as a whole...

Lombok hasn't been developed to tourism yet but it is slowly starting to. The island is very lovely with it's lush green rice fields and wonderful people who are of Balinese race and Sasak origin... They produce wonderful crafts like clay jars, pots, weaving etc... If you want to know more you will need to read or grab hold of the book yourself...

There is even a section on food and the types of food eaten with lovely photographs of food and things to buy in Bali... This is great and I guess it is too good to be true too... Excellent work and research I must say went into making this book...

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Surprisingly Good, Very Practical

Colorful guidebook has marvelous images that create an immediate illustration of Bali and Lombok.

While the practical references are a bit truncated (foreign embassies listed are only Australia and USA; hotel & restaurant listings are scanty), the cultural & special interest tips are excellent.

The guide works its magic by tying photos to text. The reader can zero in on an image and immediately see the relevant text. This is a highly practical format, leaving no mystery as to whether some place or item may be of real interest to the individual reader. Therefore, reader can figure out what he/she wants to see & do without slogging through chapter upon chapter of text.

I spend a lot of time in Bali and I think this is probably the most useful guide for the average traveler to Bali & Lombok. It has quite a few entries....

If you have a limited amount of time in Bali, and an even more limited amount of time to prepare for it, this guide will suit you very well indeed!

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The Next Best Thing to Being in Bali

I grew up in California, and continue to love the scenary and the people there. I thought it was the best place on earth, until I made it to Hawaii. Wow! Do I love Hawaii! I was convinced it, too, was the greatest, until I arrived in Tahiti. Now there's a really awesome place!! When I got back, I spoke with my cousin, the world traveler. She said, "You'll really love Bali, it's much more beautiful than Tahiti." So far, I haven't been able to test her views, but this book certainly helped me to see the many beauties of Bali and the neighboring island of Lombok (which she didn't tell me about).

The scenery, animals, arts, temples, crafts, costumes, and dance are vivid, colorful, intricate, and involved. This guide to the two islands features over 700 color photographs that give you a sense of this beauty in very many ways. Even the smallest images are crisp and distinct.

The book is also a good size to slip into a pocket while traveling, so that you don't have to be burdened with excess weight or bulk. That will help, because this guide has many details of streets, restaurants, and the insides of temples that you will wish to refer to when you are in Bali or Lombok.

This guide has the details of all of the festivals on the two islands, which are reportedly a high point of any visit there. You also get lots of detail on local history and traditions (which will be unfamiliar to many in the United States).

The book breaks the two islands into regions so you can get a flavor of how being in one area compares to another. For example, you can go as an eco-tourist, as a cultural tourist, a scuba tourist, or a plain old beach tourist (but there is good surf for those who like surfing and wind surfing). Bali offers lots of variety for those with different tastes and preferences, and the guide makes it clear how to plan for each. Golf has even made its way to Bali.

I was also glad to see that the book contained many website addresses to obtain additional information.

I cannot report on the accuracy of what is here, because I have not been to Bali. On the other hand, the information made sense in terms of what I know about other islands, and Hindu and Moslem countries.

This guide is so rich in photographs and detail that I can have quite a few "trips" just by reviewing the material here. So even if I don't make it to Bali for a few more years, I will have enjoyed some of the wonders of this wonderful island. I hope you will have the same opportunity.

After you finish enjoying this delightful guide, I suggest that you think about where else you know little about and might like to see. If your time and budget do not permit much travel, you could perhaps use these DK Eyewitness Travel Guides to provide pleasant diversions in the meantime. Then, when you are ready to go to a new place, you'll have an informed view of which one to pick.

Grasp the potential all around you, with all of your senses!

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Good for an overview of Bali's attractions

The Guide is great to get an overview over the many attractions in Bali - lots of pictures and some nice overview maps of the island's regions. However, the descriptions are on the short side and it does not contain detailed street maps that could be useful for orientation. But overall a nice introduction!

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Editorial Review :

This is the Operator's Manual for Australia. This book covers the basic and essential information the author and his family learned in order to survive their first few years living in Australia. It will help you avoid making the same embarrassing mistakes and asking the same dumb questions they did. Includes a 1,500 word Australian-American Dictionary. An essential tool for tourists, business travelers and migrants.

Customer Review :

Some decent information, but much is incorrect, missing, or offensive

As other reviews have found, there is useful information here, but I really rather wish I'd gone elsewhere for it. The Survival Guide is presented in a very down-to-earth sort of way, which makes for a nicely casual read. While this is great for people who want information and don't particularly care about clarity, it hops subjects with no basic sense of structure, only bolded headings followed by text in a list throughout the entire book. There's a Table of Contents to direct you, but the rest is a large block of words with spaces to separate subjects for well over 200 pages - a little jarring, not to mention confusing.

Also, if you have ever been to the UK or, actually, ever seen a BBC miniseries, you already know half the book. Many, MANY things Geller seems to think are peculiar Australian and thus incredibly bizarre are in fact common in Britain and can be very easily traced to British culture, usage, and tastes. Some of this is linguistic, but actually the dictionary was the only truly unique and useful part of the whole book, in my experience.

I also found the extreme number of typos and incorrect punctuation to be a large problem. Many books have one or two missed apostrophes or smushed words that an editor didn't catch, but I really wonder if the Survival Guide was proofread at all, as there are large chunks where there is a terribly obvious typo on nearly every page. It was distracting as a reader, and it certainly detracted from the sense of authority with which Geller was attempting to speak.

My main issue, however, was the inaccuracy and insensitivity here - often perhaps unintentionally implied by Geller's laid-back tone, but sometimes just plain wrong. Immigration (especially non-British and non-white immigration), Aboriginal history and current multi-cultural tensions are all glossed over, the first two with platitudes and an incredible diminution of how these issues seriously affect the latter in modern Australian society, the latter with the rather insipid suggestions that "these things tend to work themselves out." (I'm struggling to name a single multi-cultural society that has shown this capacity. Anyone?) Geller also seems to assume that his audience is all-white - those of Indian, Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, etc. descent often have a very different experience in Australia, especially outside city limits.

Moreover, stating that a general disdain for authority can be traced back to Australia's convict heritage is not only incorrect, it's just rude. Actual numbers of convicts transported to Australia were dwarfed by the numbers of free settlers who came after transportation was ended, and reducing an entire population's modern 'attitude' to a historical trope 150 years stale - and until extremely recently, a major taboo in local conversation - is hardly a great way to help outsiders understand the complex nature of the country today, much less its complicated and sometimes culturally-sensitive history.

Likewise lightly thrown aside is any discussion of how Americans are truly perceived abroad at present. Geller makes mention of 9/11 and other things that have had an impact on this, but he seems to have somehow gotten the idea that the US and Australia are not only political buddies, but that it has been a smooth relationship with no hiccups at all. The idea that Americans will still be enough of a "novelty" to amuse Australians, regardless of all else, ignores a history in which the US has constantly battered Australia politically and interfered not a little in Australian affairs, often to Australia's detriment, especially recently. To give only one example, well over half of Australians were and are against involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan (one recent survey suggests as much as 80%), and current deployments are an extremely contentious issue. Giving the impression that the stars and stripes open all doors is NOT one that will help you survive socially in Australia.

Added together, by the time I was 54 pages in I had pretty well given up on the book. The following quote didn't help. In reference to inexpensive sit-down restaurants being scarce in Australia:

"The only exception seems to be Chinese restaurants, which are usually family-run and seem to have an abundance of just-off-the-boat relatives."

I don't know about you, but I'd rather my guidebooks NOT come with built-in racist remarks.

All in all, be prepared for the gaps in knowledge and punctuation, enjoy the information here - if nothing else it's very detailed, and there are a few tips I haven't found elsewhere - but whatever you do, do NOT use this as your one and only resource. Get a wider perspective than Geller has to offer, because his has some problems, and could cause you some.


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Perfect Gift

This was a Christmas gift for a college girl, going "Down Under" as an exchange student. We all got a kick out of it!

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Must Have Guide for Expats

We are moving to Australia from the U.S. and bought this book to help prepare. It's full of useful information- like how to use the phone, when to go shopping, etc. The dictionary is great! Even though they speak English there are ALOT of different words. This is a great book and I would highly recommend it to US expats planning to live in Australia.

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Very helpful!

I received this as a gift before relocating to Australia, and it was very helpful. Even after living here for over 6 months, I still return to it for "translations."
Everyday subjects are discussed, such as the Post & how they only deliver, not pick up from your mailbox. How else would I have known this? And the phone numbers, that was helpful as well.
Great read, easy & quick.

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Great Book! Very informative.

I purchased this book to help us prepare for our move to Australia. It is so insightful! I have learned so much about things that I hadn't even thought about. It has made me re-think decisions on what to take and what to leave here, and I know that once we actually get there, I will be using this book as a reference, over and over again. Thank you, Rusty Geller, for writing this book and helping me to be much more informed about the new experiences that await us!

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