Footprint Venezuela Handbook: The Travel Guide [Paperback]

Alan Murphy (Author), Mick Day (Author)

Book Description

Series: Venezuela Handbook, 2nd ed | Publication Date: September 2000

Footprint’s Venezuela Handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide available for this most beautiful of South American countries. From Angel Falls to the Caribbean, Venezuela’s many and varied attractions are covered in depth for the independently-minded traveller. It includes highlights of Venezuela illustrated with colour photography, practical advice on outdoor activities from scuba diving and white-water rafting to climbing hills and watching whales, comprehensive practical information on where to eat, what to eat and drink and keeping healthy plus unique colour maps to help plan a trip.

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No-nonsense, succinct, authoritative. -- National Geographic Traveller

From the Publisher

Dear Fellow Traveller

Thank you for checking out the Venezuela 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 Mexico & Central America, Brazil and Colombia 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: 405 pages
• Publisher: Passport Books; 2nd edition (September 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0658006592
• ISBN-13: 978-0658006593
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 4.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,836,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Offers objective and tested recommendations, October 10, 2003

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Footprint Venezuela Handbook (Paperback)

Now in a thoroughly updated and expanded third edition, Venezuela Handbook offers objective and tested recommendations of where to stay (including the best ecotourism ranches); informative and entertaining insights into the Venezuelan people and culture; full color "highlights" maps; and an improved Contents and Index pages for easy and rapid accessibility. The collaborative effort of Venezuelan experts Alan Murphy and Dan Green, the Venezuela Handbook is an invaluable resource for planning a business or vacation in this South American country so especially noted for its superb beaches, high-rise waterfalls, and exuberant wildlife.

2 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars useful info, no color pictures, hardcover, lightweight, October 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Venezuela Handbook (Footprint Venezuela Handbook) (Hardcover)

500 pages, all B&W [not color]; hardcover, but light [~12 oz?], 4.5x7x1. Good intro section, 80 pages. maps are within the book, some full page, some smaller for details of city center, etc. Divided by geographical regions: Lima, 40pgs; North of Lima 40pg; Northern Peru, 70 pg; Arequipa & south, 35 pg; Lake Titicaca area 20 pg; Cusco area [includes Macchu Piccu etc, all the main Inca sites around Cusco] 45 pg; Central highlands 40pg; Amazon area, 30 pg. Travel tips, 25 pgs, good index of topics & maps. "tinted boxes" are little "essays" that are inserted into the flow of the more practical details, which are generally entertaining & informative. They may be as important as a "big picture" discussion of Macchu Picchu, to the fact that Pisac is known for a great place to buy beaded necklaces. I had no interest in the details on accomodations [hotels, eating, etc], as I was on an organized tour; but there are such things in there. also reviewed: Lonely Planet Peru, Rough guide Peru, and Insight guide Peru.