India, 15th (Footprint - Travel Guides) [Paperback]

Annie Dare (Author), David Stott (Author)

Book Description

Series: Footprint - Travel Guides | Publication Date: November 1, 2007

From the freezing heights of the Himalaya to the warm waters of the Andaman sea, Footprint's India provides the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to this fascinating land. Experience snowfields, deserts, beaches and backwaters, the Red Fort, the Golden Temple and the Blue Mountain Railway, eat thalis in Gujarat and sip tea in Darjeeling. Footprint's highly acclaimed guide has been fully revised and updated to provide the essentials on how to get the most from this amazingly diverse and complex country.

Editorial Reviews

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"Packed with in-depth information" The Express; "Footprint's India Handbook is invaluable - informative, easy to read and well presented. It told me everything from the history of the region to where to get the best curry." Jennie Bond. BBC Royal Correspondent" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1408 pages
• Publisher: Footprint Handbooks; Fifteenth edition (November 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1906098050
• ISBN-13: 978-1906098056
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 4.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,856,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Footprint gets you around, January 11, 2007

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Steven G. (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Footprint India, 14 Edition (Footprint India Handbook) (Paperback)

My wife and I checked almost every India travel guide book that is sold in the USA. We took three travel guides with us to India but the footpring was the only one to return.

Its descriptions aids the reader in visting a site. It guides you as a (semi) independent travel in exploring the sites and how to navigate through them. Other travel guides have similar descriptions of the sites, but they do not tell the travelar where to go. This works fine if you have a guide (but then why bother with a travel guide book), but is not helpful as an independent travelar.

It also had great pre-prep suggestions on who to contact for booking your independent trip.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Footprint is still the best guidebook!, August 16, 2010

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Technical Information Transport Systems (Boca Raton, FL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Footprint India, 14 Edition (Footprint India Handbook) (Paperback)

Make no mistake, this is a brick--nearly 1400 pages and a couple pounds. It would behoove you to cut out the sections for where you'll be traveling and just take those with you, or simply read it exhaustively and make notes before your trip.
As far as guidebooks go, Footprint titles seem to be the best for a few reasons:
1) You'll rarely find yourself in the typical line of gawking tourists with noses glued to a lonely planet. You'll actually find interesting and informative reviews.
2) It is geared just a bit above the backpacker tourist--meaning, for the most part, that it's a bit classier, but by no means will you miss out on finding the cheap and interesting.
3) It is exhaustive, almost to a fault. I've never seen another guidebook series that is so in-depth and remarkably up-to-date as any of the Footprint line, especially for a place like India (I ended up living here for several years).

Worth the price and then some.