Culture Smart! India: A Quick Guide to Customs & Etiquette [Paperback]

Nicki Grihault (Author)

Book Description

Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture | Publication Date: March 1, 2003

Whether your customers are traveling in luxury or with just a pack on their back, it's important that they have a safe, fun, and easy-going trip. Bad etiquette and a misunderstanding about customs can put an otherwise very exciting trip on hold faster than a bad case of food poisoning. Readers are going to want to know about the Culture Smart! customs and etiquette series and will find them as indispensable as their passports. The Culture Smart! titles are not your basic travel guides: they are consistently updated customs and etiquette references for more than twenty-five countries, with six new titles available this fall. Now more than ever, travelers are more than just sightseers and tourists; they're ambassadors making impressions of the United States wherever they go. Readers will find these to be invaluable for pointing them on their way to a safe and fun trip abroad.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Culture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers, Sunday Times Travel - ...the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries, Global Travel - ...full of fascinating, as well as common sense, tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas, Observer - ...as useful as they are entertaining, Easy Jet Magazine - ...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world, New York Times. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Nicki Grihault spent her childhood as an expatriate's daughter in Africa and subsequently lived in America, Australia, India and Italy. Now based in London, she has been a freelance travel writer and photographer since 1993. Having started her career with a guidebook, with Thomas Cook Travellers Ecuador & The Galapagos Islands she is returning to her roots.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155868705X
• ISBN-13: 978-1558687059
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,223,504 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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53 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Culture Smart, India, June 17, 2003

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This review is from: Culture Smart! India: A Quick Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Paperback)

This is the kind of book every first-time traveler to India needs! It is short and to-the-point, and gives a very concise guide to customs and etiquette that is required learning for Westerners. Other version of the Culture Smart series are available, so if you're traveling outside the U.S., be sure to get one of these incredibly handy guides. These books are small enough to take with you to for a quick refresher course, too!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A quick review of Indian customs, May 14, 2007

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Narahari Mahadevan "Tamil-Telugu Deshi" (Cincinnati, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: India - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture (Paperback)

I find this book very informative and a quick reference for Indian customs. Although, you cannot touch on every aspect of a culture in a small handbook, the author has taken great pains to explain ways and means. The only caveat to avoid faux paus is to actually memorize the customs before you visit.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some additional information, August 16, 2007

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Arleen (Fayetteville, NC United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: India - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture (Paperback)

I agree with the other reviewers, but I wanted to let readers know that much of this book is repeated, verbatim, in __Customs & Etiquette Of India (Simple Guides Customs & Etiquette)__ by Venika Kingsland. (Not sure who plagiarized whom...) Culturesmart India is worth the extra few dollars.