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Title: Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling Bahamas (Diving and Snorkeling Guides) by Michael Lawrence ISBN: 1-86450-181-2 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: and where might I find these dive sites?
Comment: Agree with the "pretty but shallow" assessment below. On a recent trip to the Abacos, found it completely useless without map coordinates. There must be a market out there for dive guides without maps or GPS coordinates (people who don't actually want to dive? the clairvoyant?) but...
Rating: 5
Summary: Well organized and thorough
Comment: I've just used the new dive guide by Lonely Planet on my recent dive trip to the Bahamas (Eleuthera). It was an excellent resource - solid dive site descriptions of 108 sites, which were organized by dive region. For someone not familiar with the Bahamas prior to going there, I found the book an invaluable tool for helping me plan where to go.The sidebars were entertaining to read as well (and useful), and the color photos are pretty inspiring too. Recommended highly!
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretty, but too shallow...
Comment: There's some good things about this book: in typical Lonely Planet style you've got great general travel information for the area (which if I really wanted, I'd buy a general travel book).
It does also cover a large number of sites - though is still far from comprehensive.
And it has some nice additional information occasionally through the book.
Two main peeves though. And they're killers:
- Each description is a paragraph, or two at most. You can't tell me very much about a dive site in so few words.
- There are no maps / diagrams for specific dive sites (just area overview maps) - a dive guide fails totally without these.
It's a pretty book, but to be any use you need to include maps and more detail per site (if this was done it could be forgiven for not being totally comprehensive).
In short, it's nice, but it's no use as a tool for researching a dive holiday.
What'S further is I now own two of these (Red Sea and Bahamas) - I certainly will not buy another.
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Title: The Dive Sites of the Bahamas by Lawson Wood ISBN: 0844201405 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Diving & Snorkeling Florida Keys (Diving and Snorkeling Guides) by William Harrigan ISBN: 0864427743 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Bahamas, Turks and Caicos (Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, 2nd Ed) by Christopher P. Baker ISBN: 1864501995 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Frommer's Bahamas 2004 by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince ISBN: 0764537342 Publisher: Frommer Pub. Date: 04 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Exuma Guide: A Cruising Guide to the Exuma Cays: Approaches, Routes, Anchorages, Dive Sights, Flora, Fauna, History, and Lore of the Exuma Cays by Stephen J. Pavlidis ISBN: 0963956671 Publisher: Seaworthy Publications Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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