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Title: Yucatan & Mayan Mexico, 2nd by Nick Rider ISBN: 1-86011-821-6 Publisher: Cadogan Guides Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Jam Packed with Great Information
Comment: This book is jam packed with in-depth information about the Yucatan including a full chapter on the Maya, another chapter on the history of the region, on top of all the important travel-related information that you usually see in travel books. I have a few books on the region and I think this is one of the best!
Rating: 4
Summary: Very good book for the independent minded travler!
Comment: I spent 3 weeks in the Yucatan this fall and this book helped make my trip very enjoyable. I traveled to Merida, campeche, cozmel, cancun, plus many of the ruin sites and this book proved to be an acurate and reliable friend! If you like to travel on your own and seek out those outta the way places this is the book for you. I also enjoyed "Tourist in the Yucatan" fun thriller adventure novel set in the yucatan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best guide book on the Maya region
Comment: Nick Rider's travel guide is by far the best book for visiting Maya/Toltec sites in this region. I always use a Cadogan guide when one is available. They are the most intelligently written and informative of all the guide books currently on the market.
Although they can be a bit dry, they are normally written by people who really know their subject well. Rough Guide/Lonely Planet/Let's Go guides, for example, are heavy and filled with reams of irrelevant pages you will never look at if you have ever ventured outside the safety of your living room. Cadogan guides assume you have a brain and you want to find out as much about the local area as possible - while still providing the essential travel tips.
This one covers the Mayan region of Southern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Where it excels is its descriptions of the amazing archaeological sites you will encounter, their history and the relationship between indigenous Maya people and those descended from the Conquistadors.
The author was a postgraduate in Mesoamerican studies and provides - what I think - is one of the best introductions to Mayan culture, architecture and its famous calendar that I have encountered. For those who are interested there's also a list of further Maya reading, a great food section and loads of stuff on towns/cities, travel timetables and dinky places to stay.
Armed with this book, you'll really feel you are being accompanied by a knowledgeable guide who isn't there solely to relieve you of your money. On many occasions I found the book more insightful than hiring a local.
Thankfully, Cadogan have revamped the cover and it looks much better.
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Title: Hidden Cancun & the Yucatan: Including Cozumel, Tulum, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, and Merida (Hidden Cancun and the Yucatan, 3rd Ed) by Richard Harris ISBN: 1569752923 Publisher: Ulysses Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Yucatan (Yucatan, 2nd Ed) by Ben Greensfelder ISBN: 1740594568 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Frommer's Cancun, Cozumel and the Yucatan 2004 by David Baird, Lynne Bairstow ISBN: 0764537350 Publisher: Frommer Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Yucatan (Yucatan, 1st Ed) by Scott Doggett ISBN: 1864501030 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Cancún, Cozumel & The Riviera Maya Alive! by Bruce Conord, June Conord ISBN: 1588431231 Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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