Uganda, 5th: The Bradt Travel Guide [Paperback]

Philip Briggs (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2007 | Series: Bradt Travel Guide

Bradt's Uganda has been thoroughly revised and updated to keep up with the country's fast pace of development. This fifth edition includes a more in-depth look at the booming tourism activities at East Africa's center of adventure, including whitewater rafting, an aerial runway, bungee jumping, quad biking, and horseriding.

 

Features include:

 

*Gorilla tracking--details of all available locations to see the endangered mountain gorilla including new sites at Nkuringo (Bwindi forest) and Democratic Republic of Congo

 

*Up-to-date information on activities, reserves, camps, and restaurants

 

*Extensive coverage of all the national parks

Editorial Reviews

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"If seeing gorillas in the mist appeals, this is the book for you. Primarily concerned with wildlife viewing opportunitites, it gives formidable in-depth information on native mammals and birds." The Times "We had a successful filming trip, and the guide was great. I found it full of useful information, it was relevant, up to date and comprehensive. A good reference for anyone visiting Uganda with loads of interesting background information and tips." Emma Richards, Smith & Watson Productions, UK "The most comprehensive and best current guide." Traveller

From the Back Cover

This fourth edition of the Bradt guide to Uganda has been updated and considerably expanded to include not just every aspect of the country's tourist infrastructure, but also far more detailed coverage of the cultural and environmental issues that are Uganda's greatest asset.
This guide contains: in depth information on natural history and conservation; getting there, getting around and other practical information; comprehensive coverage of history and culture; in and around Kampala; communicating in Swahili; 45 maps and town plans and much more.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides; 5th edition (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184162182X
• ISBN-13: 978-1841621821
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #778,609 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #22 in Books > Travel > Africa > Rwanda & Uganda

More About the Author

African travel specialist Philip Briggs has been exploring the highways, byways and backwaters of the world's most challenging and exciting continent since 1986, when he spent several months backpacking on a shoestring from Nairobi to Cape Town. In 1991, he wrote the Bradt Guide to South Africa, the first such guidebook to be published internationally after the release of Nelson Mandela.

Over the rest of the 1990s, Philip wrote a series of pioneering Bradt Guides to destinations that were then - and in some cases still are - otherwise practically uncharted by the travel publishing industry. These included the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana and Rwanda (co-authored with Janice Booth), all of which are now in their 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th edition.

Philip has visited more than two dozen African countries, and written about most of them, whether it be for guidebook publishers such as AA, APA-Insight, Berlitz, Camerapix, Dorling Kindersley, Frommers, Struik-New Holland and 30 Degrees South, or for specialist travel and wildlife magazines including Africa Birds & Birding, Africa Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Travel Africa and Wanderlust.

He still spends at least four months on the road every year, and spends his rest of the time battering away at a keyboard in the sleepy dorp of Bergville, in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg region of South Africa. He is married to the travel photographer Ariadne Van Zandbergen and lives with three dogs and a cat. When not obssessing over some or other aspect of African history, culture, wildlife or travel, Philip's interests include music, reading and walking.

Customer Reviews

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best travel guides ever, August 28, 2004

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This review is from: Uganda, 4th: The Bradt Travel Guide (Paperback)

I've traveled to over 40 countries in the past 15 years and read between 1-3 travel guides before going to each country.

This is one of the best travel guides I've ever read. Very detailed, current, no superficiality. Strong on history, sights and culture. I really can't think of how this book could have been improved.

And read Abyssinian Chronicles before you go to Uganda. Wonderful character development and a Ugandan's perspective on history and culture in that country.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Uganda: the Bradt Travel Guide (4th edition), December 1, 2003

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Derek Schuurman (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uganda, 4th: The Bradt Travel Guide (Paperback)

Philip Briggs has produced a masterpiece with his 4th edition of 'Uganda: the Bradt Travel Guide'. As a specialist tour operator who has visited Uganda before, I am familiar with other Uganda guidebooks and Bradt's latest edition is without a doubt, the best around. Everything the prospective visitor needs to know about Uganda is contained in this superb book. Briggs has done an exceptionally thorough job of updating the guide and I am confident that it will enable readers not only to see the best of the country, but also to understand it.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bradt Guide to Uganda, 4th Edition, November 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Uganda, 4th: The Bradt Travel Guide (Paperback)

This is a very well written and comprehensive guide.
It provides excellent information on wildlife as well
as culture, history, and politics. The book is full of
details on these, and other, subjects, but is consistently
lively and interesting. It is also very well balanced, pointing
out both the delights and difficulties of travel in Uganda.
I am quite familiar with Uganda and with the various tour guides, and this is by far the best guide to the country
which I have yet seen.