Footprint Morocco Handbook: The Travel Guide [Paperback]

Justin McGuinness (Author)

Book Description

Series: Morocco Handbook, 2nd ed | Publication Date: August 1999

Whether you seek the grandeur of the imperial cities or the remoteness of an atlantic fortress town, the splendour and serenity of the Atlas mountains or the bustle of a souk, this guide will help you make the most of a country that has fascinated travellers for centuries. It includes itineraries for short breaks and longer stays off the beaten track, background information on Arab and Berber culture, coverage of contemporary Moroccan life, music, food and architecture and extensive listings of where to stay and eat.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Excellent - stands apart from the rest. -- Traveller

Footprint Handbooks, the best of the best. -- Le Monde

From the Publisher

Dear Fellow Traveller

Thank you for checking out the Morocco Handbook. Footprint are an independent British publisher (based in Bath). We specialise in providing travellers with guidebooks 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 Andalucia, Egypt and East Africa 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

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Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Ntc Pub Group; 2nd edition (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844221325
• ISBN-13: 978-0844221328
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 4.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,160,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Traveler's Bible, October 30, 2000

By A Customer

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

I spent two weeks travelling in Morocco and this guide book was indispensible! I found it far superior to the standard Let's Go and Lonely Planet guides for a number of reasons, among them the overall durability of the book - the cover and binding are designed to stay in one piece, and they did even though we referred to it many many times a day - something that definitely did not happen with my Lonely Planet guides. Also, the warning section was straightforward without being overwhelming, which is to say I knew what I was getting into but it didn't scare me away from going. Every time I had a question, no matter how far out I thought it was, I found an answer in this book. My only complaint - the maps are not as detailed as they could be (understandable considering the complexities of many Moroccan cities). If you're travelling to Morocco be sure to pick up a detailed map of each city as soon as you arrive - and have a fabulous time!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't judge a book by its cover, January 14, 2005

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Jared A. Cohee (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Morocco, 4th (Footprint - Travel Guides) (Paperback)

It is interesting to me that this is the 4th edition of the Footprint Morocco guide. It reads and suggests much like a first edition. The package and organization of Footprint guides are very well done, the cover holds up well, the pages are easy to read, and information is easy to find when you understand their system. That being said, the guide is misleading over and over. I am surprised to read the reviews of commendation that precede me, for my travel in Morocco was not complimented by this book. The basics were covered, sure, but bus and train times, quantities, and trip lengths were way off at times, and written directions were just plain wrong on occassion. The city maps can be overlooked, because mapping a medina is an obvious difficulty, but written instructions (take second right, then first left) were almost always wrong. I am good at following directions, but the landmarks and routes given were flawed. The Footprint South America is a good tool, so I will in no way criticize the whole series, but the Morocco book can get you going in the wrong direction. I don't recommend it.