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Title: Lonely Planet Bolivia (Bolivia, 4th Ed) by Deanna Swaney ISBN: 0-86442-668-2 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Just plain bad - with no redeeming features
Comment: I will not be able to add much to what other reviewers have said, but welcome to another opus from Lonely Planet's worst writer, Deanna Swaney. This lady has earned herself a bad name through writing which is more appropriate for an anti-capitalist leaflet and total lack of objectivity.
Outdated? Yes, even more so than the guide to Russia. Biased? Yes, pretty much on par with Iceland and Greenland guide. Inaccurate? You bet.
Recommendation: Don't touch this with a barge-pole, even if you are a die-hard LP fan.
Rating: 2
Summary: Lonely Planet Bolivia, 4th edition
Comment: This latest edition of the Lonely Planet Bolivia book is decidedly retrograde compared to past editions. Lonely Planet has been famous and widely appreciated for its detailed insider information drawn from the "grassroots" - local people, as well as people who use the book. This book seems to be reversal from this tradition to a significant extent. For example, in the section on Bolivian Amazonia covering Madidi National Park, only one multi-national provider of guide and visitor services is mentioned. In fact there are several, some of which are very good, and even superior in some respects - depending on what you're looking for. Such resources for the region were covered in past editions but not in this one. It leads one to wonder what either the author or Lonely Planet was really trying to achieve when they published the 4th edition.
Rating: 2
Summary: out of date, but helpful for maps
Comment: There are a few good maps to get you oriented with La Paz before you go to Bolivia. Most of the restaurants do not exist anymore in this book and the stores do not either.
Since there are not many travel books on Bolivia, this one is one fo the better ones, but it's a shame that there are not any better ones.
Although this book is a good introduction to Bolivia and La Paz, it's definentely not going to help you much when you get there.
Very outdated!
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Title: Lonely Planet Peru (Lonely Planet Peru, 4th Ed) by Rob Rachowiecki ISBN: 0864427107 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Argentina Uruguay and Paraguay (Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, 4th Ed) by Sandra Bao, Ben Greensfelder, Carolyn Hubbard ISBN: 1740590279 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Rough Guide to Bolivia by James Read, Rough Guides ISBN: 1858288479 Publisher: Rough Guides Pub. Date: 12 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, 6th Ed) by Rob Rachowiecki, Danny Palmerlee ISBN: 1740594649 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Bolivia Travel Map by David Sami ISBN: 1553411404 Publisher: ITMB Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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