Footprint India Handbook 2001: The Travel Guide (Footprint Handbooks) [Paperback]

Robert Bradnock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2001 | Series: Footprint Handbooks

Written by experts, this comprehensive travel guide to India contains updated ideas on where to go, suggested itineries and highlights, both on and off the beaten track. The book provides background information on culture, religion, history, art, architecture, wildlife, music and dance. Practical information is included on accommodation, shopping and eating out, as well as hints on climate, the best time to visit and how to stay healthy. Fully indexed colour maps are designed for planning and travelling.

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Seriously well-researched, the best of the lot. -- The Observer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Dear Fellow Traveller

Thank you for checking out the India Handbook 2001. 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 available 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 for 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 Goa, Pakistan and Sri Lanka Handbooks and an extremely useful general guide to travelling: The Traveller's Handbook. Finally, whichever guide book you choose, we would like to wish you an exciting, illuminating and above all enj! oyable trip.

Best wishes
Footprint --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1426 pages
• Publisher: Footprint Handbooks; 10th edition (January 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1900949644
• ISBN-13: 978-1900949644
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.1 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,547,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bye-bye Let's Go, Hello Footprint, January 5, 2001

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B. Surkan (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Footprint India Handbook 2001: The Travel Guide (Paperback)

We started our five week tour of India with Let's Go India Nepal, and found the Footprint guide four weeks into our tour. After looking it over, we quickly realized how much detail, clarity, and completeness we were missing. We didn't open Let's Go again, other than to retrieve our bookmark.

Some of the telephone numbers were slightly off, but that is par for the course in India. The correct numbers were easily located via directory assistance, which the book informed us of.

We stayed at two of the highly recommended hotels between US$5 and US$6 a piece and were delighted by the overall quality and cleanliness we found.

Its descriptions of some of the sights surpassed even that of our tour guide.

We liked this guide so much that we now use Footprint guides for our travels wherever they are available and up to date.

WARNING: The guide warns that the prices for many tourist attractions will go up on Jan 1, 2001. They actually went up on October 18, 2000. Now at most major tourist sites in India, foreigners pay the same number of dollars as Indian's pay rupees.