Footprint Cambodia Handbook: The Travel Guide [Paperback]

Joshua Eliot (Author), John Colet (Author), Dinah Gardner (Author)

Book Description

Series: Cambodia Handbook 1999 | Publication Date: February 2000

Angkor, the ancient capital of the powerful Khmer Empire, is one of the archaeological gems of Asia and the spiritual and cultural heart of Cambodia. All aspects of visiting this ‘wonder of the world’ are covered in this guide written by a leading Southeast Asia expert. It includes highlights of Cambodia illustrated with colour photography, comprehensive background information on ancient and modern history, culture and politics, the latest visa information and entry requirements, coverage of the exciting minority districts of Cambodia’s remote northwest and valuable information on newly opened overland routes from Thailand, unique colour maps to help plan the trip

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From the Publisher

Dear Fellow Traveller thank you for checking out the Cambodia Handbook. Footprint are an independent British publisher (based in Bath). We specialise in providing travellers with guide books that are second to none in terms of accuracy, recency and especially coverage. You will find that most of our guides are simply the most comprehensive availble with in-depth information on history, culture and customs as well as practical travel information. Our major titles are updated ANNUALLY to ensure you have the best information to hand. If there are no reviews for this particular title we recommend you check out the reader reviews on the Peru and South American Handbooks which give a good flavour of how useful our guides are. You might like to know that we also publish Laos, Thailand and Vietnam Handbooks and an extremely useful general guide to travelling: The Traveller's Handbook. Finally, whichever guidebook you choose, we would like to wish you an exciting, illuminating and above all enjoyable trip! Best wishes Footprint

About the Author

Joshua was born in India, brought up in Hong Kong and has spent the last two decades studying and working in the countries of Southeast Asia. John is an English writer living in Vietnam. Since 1991 he has been a frequent visitor to Cambodia. He is particularly fascinated by, and has thoroughly enjoyed travelling to those parts of Cambodia that were previously 'no-go zones' – areas as yet largely unexplored by outsides but full of interest.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Passport Books; 2nd edition (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0658000675
• ISBN-13: 978-0658000676
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 4.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,255,986 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Authors' Affection Seen, November 17, 2001

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"melissakuo" (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Footprint Cambodia Handbook : The Travel Guide (Paperback)

I have never read a travel guide book like this. It gives you the overall and detailed picture on Cambodia. Besides history, politics, peoples, places of interests and the information any travel offers, the authors, gives abundant knowledge related to Cambodia, like Buddha's footprint, Pol Pot's life, ruby and saphire... The Ankor area map is the most detailed i have ever seen. Without deep affection to Cambodia, it is impossible to write such an detailed travel guide book.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, January 13, 2002

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Matt Ebiner (Covina, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Footprint Cambodia Handbook : The Travel Guide (Paperback)

I've been very happy with other Footprint Handbooks, particularly the Pakistan Handbook, but this one falls short of the mark. Maybe it is because this is only the 2nd edition and there has been too little feedback from users. The background info is very well done (that part is worth 4.5 stars) regarding history and religion, but the description of sights is only mediocre. I thought Lonely Planet described things better, and the Moon Handbook was the best of the three. I could have done without bringing this guidebook.

2.0 out of 5 stars Whose footprint?, August 19, 2003

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D. Gordon Longmuir "DGL" (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Footprint Cambodia Handbook (Paperback)

Compared to the excellent Lonely Planet guide and even the rough guide, the Footprint book on Cambodia leaves much to be desired... it is full of errors of history and fact, and even gives wrong coordinates on its maps, especially its important map of Phnom Penh. If you buy one guidebook to Cambodia, let it be Lonely Planet, not this very disappointing Footprint guide, no matter how pretty the pictures are.

D.G. Longmuir
former Canadian Ambassador to Cambodia