1. ISBN13: 9780470470640
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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• Completely updated every year, Frommer's Bahamas features gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you.
• Our authors hit all the highlights, including the best beaches; shopping from luxury boutiques to local markets; and scuba diving and adrenaline adventures. They've checked out the best resorts, hotels, and restaurants, and offer authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget.
• You'll also get a detailed walking tour of Nassau's historic sites; up-to-the-minute nightlife coverage; accurate neighborhood maps; and advice on planning a successful family vacation.

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There are much better travel books for the Bahamas!!

A disappointing book. I've been to the Bahamas many times and needed up-to-date info on changes since my last visit in 2003. This book was of little help.

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The Cruising Guide to Abaco, Bahamas: 2010
by Steve Dodge, assisted by Jeff and Jon Dodge This twenty-first edition of the only annually updated cruising guide to Abaco includes one brand new chart and updates for 20 of the 64 navigational charts and marina maps in the book. The accurate easy-to-read color charts are based on original hydrographic research and local knowledge. The book also includes recent color aerial photographs of all principal harbours and a proven system of GPS waypoints. Its organization makes it easy to use it is the clear choice of most cruisers and the best selling guide to Abaco. Includes tide tables for 2010, detailed snorkeling/diving charts, up-dated business directories for Abaco, articles on fishing, an offshore bathymetric fishing chart, a new lunar calendar, a guide to the dolphins and whales of Abaco, a brief history of Abaco, and helpful local advertising. 8½ x 11 208 pp. ISBN 978 0932265883

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1. ISBN13: 9781400008445
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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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 the Bahamas!

•Updated annually, Fodor’s Bahamas provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

•Fodor’s Bahamas 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 the Bahamas.

•Experience the Bahamas like a local! Fodor’s Bahamasincludes choices for every traveler, from exploring deserted cays to bar hopping and boutique shopping, 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.

Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

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Getting the most your tropical Holiday!

I bought this book as birthday gift for my son-in-law. I looked through the guide before I sent it to him. My impression was very positive, but no where near the rave reviews that Steve had for it. This guide to tropical fish should be a must for anyone taking a tropical vacation.

Dick

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The Best, As Always

The Audubon Field Guides are the best there are. Every category of book is well documented and the glossy photos are fabulous. I buy these books for my 11 year old son. He enjoys reading them so much that I count his time spent as credit for our homeschool science course.

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OK, But Paul Humann's Book is Much Better

A few years ago, I bought the Audubon Society Field Guide to Tropical Marine Fishes and found when I tried to use it in the Florida Keys that there were many fish I couldn't identify. People recommended I buy Paul Humann's book, "Reef Fish Identification." The book is more expensive, but I found it to be far more comprehensive and user friendly. For example, many fish look entirely different when in their "juvenile," "initial" or "terminal" phase, and the "Reef Fish Identification" book has clear photos of each of the three stages shown beside each other, and frequently includes photos of alternate color phases as well. The Audubon book usually just shows a picture of the fish in just one phase, and often not a terribly good photo at that. Next to each photo in the Humann book is an excellent line drawing of the fish, highlighting and labeling which features of a fish are most dependable for identification. The Audubon book includes no such diagrams to aid identification. Finally, the Humann book is based upon both an extensive bibliography and collaboration with field biologists, and if the detailed descriptions in his book of definitive features for discriminating species of fish are correct (and experienced scuba divers tell me they are correct) then some of the pictures in the Audubon guide are actually even misidentified as to species. For example, the Audubon picture labeled as a "Leopard Goby" is almost certainly a picture of an "Orange-sided Goby" (if the Humann book is correct about dark lines outlining the orange rectangles being a reliable discriminating feature). If there were no other reef fish identification book available, I would have given the Audubon book more stars, I am usually a great fan of the Audubon Field Guide series, but in comparison with the Humann book it just doesn't rate very well. I should add that I have never met, nor have any private or professional association with, the author of either of these books, so my opinion is not biased by any such affiliation.
Finally, I should add that I am pleased nevertheless to own both of these books because, for many species of fish, fish of the same species can be found in a wide variety of colors and patterns, so you can never study too many photos to get a handle on the range of appearances possible for any given species. Buy the Humann book if you can just afford one book, but owning both books is even better!

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Good for general info

I bought this book for my husband to prevent him from telling me about "that yellow fish" he saw when we were diving. It is good because it has a lot of variety of different types of fish, but it is by no ways all encompassing reference. It has only a few varieties of each type of fish (ie only a few angel fish shown, not all of the types). So, it is good, but not exactly what I was looking for.

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disappointing

Although there are many fishes accounted for, it has quite a few that are missing, and it would be helpful if more showed pictures of the difference between adult and juveniles.

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1. ISBN13: 9781906261627
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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