Footprint Tunisia Handbook [Paperback]

Justin McGuinness (Author)

Book Description

Series: Footprint Tunisia Handbook | Publication Date: October 2002

Tunisia is compact in area, intriguingly exotic and varied in scenery and landscape. This updated handbook is a comprehensive guide for all visitors. Containing background and travel information, it includes: coverage of Tunis and the major cities in detail - bazaars, shopping, architecture, where to stay and where to eat; guidance on how to make the most of some of the best beaches in the southern Mediterranean - water sports and recreational facilities; excursions into Libya; and practical details on the less well-known activities and areas of the country such as exploring the great Chotts in the south by four-wheel-drive.

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If the essence of real travel is what you have been secretly yearning for all these years then Footprint are for you. -- Under 26, London --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Publisher

Dear Fellow Traveller

Thank you for checking out the Tunisia 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 Morocco, 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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Footprint Handbooks; 3 edition (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1903471281
• ISBN-13: 978-1903471289
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,457,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #19 in Books > Travel > Africa > Libya
  • #33 in Books > Travel > Africa > Tunisia

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Footprint Tunisia, June 20, 2000

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Thomas H. Amos - See all my reviews

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

Footprint Tunisia is without question the best travel book I've ever used. It's information was accurate to the letter in every case. Background history of the country and it's ancient colonizers was exhaustive compared to the standards of most guide books. Perhaps most impressive is the pertinence of the information to every type of traveller, budget to luxe. The clever and pointed opinions were always on target. The writer did not hesitate to give sly negative reviews where applicable. "Lonely Planet" and "Let's Go" both offer good information but have target readers and leave out the needs of many of us as well as frequently providing only rudimentary information. With Footprint you can throw out all the other guidebooks or just avoid buying them entirely, that's how exhaustive I found the Tunisia entries to be. I've used many guide books, Eyewitness, Access (awesome in the original versions, especially for walking tours and architectural sites,food and shops)and Fodor's but these all pale in comparison to Footprint. Where have they been hiding? I've yet to see them on the shelves of those big bookstores in my neighborhood. Bravo to Amazon for carrying them all.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Footprint Tunisia Handbook-Fantastic Book, November 17, 2002

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Vaughn Martin (middle Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews

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

You can't imagine how much detail and information there is in this book. It must have taken this gentleman several lifetimes to actually visit all of the places about which he so accurately describes. This is far better than the Lonely Planet book on Tunisia in my opinion, especially for people who hope to travel to this progressive nation that is very "American friendly" and quite a bargain in most ways.