Lonely Planet Russia: Moscow [Kindle Edition]

Mara Vorhees (Author)

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Discover Russia. Includes FREE planning and background information. Moscow is a city of superlatives: it’s the priciest and (according to one poll) the rudest city in the world, boasts the most billionaires, the most expensive cup of coffee and – coming soon – the most colossal building. No wonder, then, that a popular nightclub is called simply The Most. Moscow may occupy the top spot, but these lists hardly capture its reality – or vitality. Free (relatively) from the strictures of censorship and hardship, Russia’s capital is experiencing a burst of creative energy. Former factories and warehouses are now edgy art galleries, while classic venues such as the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum are expanding and experimenting. Tchaikovsky and Chekhov remain well-represented at Moscow’s theatres, but you can also see world premieres by up-and-coming composers and choreographers. Foodies flock to wine bars, coffee bars, sushi bars and even beer bars, while night owls enjoy a dynamic scene of exclusive nightclubs, bohemian art cafés, underground blues bars and drink-up dives.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 3438 KB
• Print Length: 524 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet - A (March 1, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002RI9ZGI
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #208,269 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #16 in Books > Travel > Asia > Russia > Moscow

More About the Author

It was 1988 when Mara first travelled abroad, spending a summer in Scandinavia with a side trip into the Soviet Union. The high-school summer exchange program would shape her life, as it inspired her to learn to speak Russian and to try to end the Cold War.

As a student, she further broadened her horizons, circling the globe on a research fellowship from the Circumnavigators' Foundation. This trip took her from Belize to Budapest, from Senegal to Singapore, comparing the successes and failures of international development projects.

Despite the draw of many foreign lands, she still found herself returning to the former Soviet Union time and time again. Before the Soviet collapse, she taught English in Kyiv, Ukraine, for a year; and during the most tumultuous transition years, she worked on a foreign aid project in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

The pen-wielding traveller has since taken to seeing and saving the world by other means, writing guidebooks for Lonely Planet. Mara has also written for National Geographic Traveler, Executive Travel, the Boston Globe and the LA Times, amongst others. She is an on-line travel expert at Triporati.com and Tripsketch.com. When not traipsing around the planet, she lives in a pink house in Somerville, Massachusetts. Follow her adventures at www.maravorhees.com.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been so much better if LP gave it a little more effort, November 27, 2011

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MTL (Burlington, VT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lonely Planet Russia: Moscow (Kindle Edition)

This review is about the Kindle edition.

I use my Kindle a lot and am thrilled LP has a bunch of books available, both country guides (like LP Turkey, Russia...) and city guides (like LP Istanbul, Moscow...)

However, I must say that LP is doing a half-assed job with the city guides. Why? Because they're not proper city guides.

One would expect a city guide to have more detail about the city than a country guide. However, LP's Kindle city guides are just the chapter of the city that's covered in the country guide. so it's not the kind of in-depth info one finds in LP's own paper city guide. It's adequate information, but a let-down compared to what LP sells in print.

ON top of that, LP lazily copied all the introduction stuff from the country guide into the so-called city guide. Lots of information I don;t need, plus several pages with itineraries for the whole country, covering sights and destinations that are not even covered in the city guide. And an index that doesn't work (not hyper-linked).

This is what I mean- half-assed. LP has the content available- why don't they transfer it to Kindle format? Instead, they're doing this lazy copy-paste job that leaves much to be desired.

I have the LP Moscow print edition and wanted to replace it by the Kindle edition- but that has so much less information that i returned it and used my paper version instead. Frustrating and unnecessary.