Goa Handbook (Footprint Goa Handbook) [Hardcover]

Robert Bradnock (Author), Roma Bradnock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1998 | Series: Footprint Goa Handbook

An updated guidebook to Goa, an ideal destination for first-time travellers to India. With some of India's finest beaches, it has long been popular as a place for relaxation, with a reputation for being free and easy. Information is included on: Goan beaches and coastal resorts; getting to know India; accommodation to suit every budget; up-to-date information on beaches and resorts; a guide to getting around easily by using hire cars, taxies and buses; the Portugese heritage and its cultural and day-to-day impact, for example on food; and a guide to Bombay, the gateway to Goa. Goa is also ideal for those who want to explore the easily-reached neighbouring states of Maharashstra and Karnataka.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Dear Fellow Traveller

Thank you for checking out the Goa 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 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 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 an India Handbook 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 enjoyable trip! Best wishes Footprint --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Robert Bradnock is an international authority on India. He was born in India in 1943 and went back overland in 1966 as a research student at Cambridge to live in South India for a year. That journey was the first of many visits living and working throughout the sub-continent. He is a senior lecturer at the University of London's world famous School of Oriental and African Studies. Roma Das Bradnock, a Bengali by birth, was brough up in Calcutta where she graduated in English. Roma's Hindi and Bengali and Robert's basic Tamil see them through even remote corners comfortably. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Ntc Pub Group (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084424807X
• ISBN-13: 978-0844248073
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,269,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide to an interesting part of India, April 17, 1999

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

We have spent the last week or so exploring Goa. The Goa Handbook has certainly allowed us to get to places that we would not have got to. For example we spent a night at the excellent Tirecol Heritage Hotel. This is in an old Portuguese Fort right in the north of teh state and only reachable by crossing two major rivers by ferry. Very atmospheric and excellent value. Also accurately desribed were the sites of Old Goa and the fantactically guady but very touristy Anjuna market.