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Title: Lonely Planet Panama (LONELY PLANET PANAMA) by Scott Doggett ISBN: 1-86450-307-6 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Invaluable!!!
Comment: We spent 7 days in Panama and the LonelyPlanet Panama book was our bible. I don't know what more we could have wanted from a guidebook, this one seems to have it all. As impoverished college students we were primarily looking at the cheapest way to do things and this book was deffinitely oriented around that type of travel. I really don't understand what some of the other reviewers are talking about when they say this book is written for people with lots of money to spend, that was not our experience at all. We went everywhere by bus and taxi and we saved so much money on transportation and lodging that we felt free to splurge in a couple of places. This book has just the right amount of detail so that your trip doesn't lose the element of surprise. I appreciated the range of accommodations described in this book allowing us to pick our own priorities in terms of how much we wanted to spend to stay somewhere or do something. I also appreciated the background and historical information that made the whole trip that much richer. This book is ubiquitous among the english-speaking tourist crowd and we saw people toting it around everywhere. It was a great conversation starter.
Rating: 5
Summary: The little green "traveling bible"
Comment: I was a little skeptic about the accuracy of any travel book of Panama. I was born and raised there and found that this book had much more information that I even knew about!! It definitely was accurate, interesting and helpful. After 10 years of absence, visiting Panama with this book made my trip an experience I will never forget. Scott Doggett depicted a place full of wonders but also took the time to "warn" you of the "do's" and "dont's" which was very important to us. This book was a wealth of information and it helped us appreciate our travels much better.. and use our time and resources wisely!!
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Guide, but Politicized and Ethnocentric.
Comment: Lonely Planet, probably has the most up-to-date, comprehensive, practical guide for Panama, currently available. Would I recommend it? Absolutely! Unfortunately, Lonely Planet, failed to edit the author's crude, narrow-minded, self-righteous, self-serving commentary. The author also glosses over or totaly ignores pertinent information. Personal politics and self-aggrandizement have little, if any place in a travel guide, and when it exists in such a publication, it suggests a lack of empathy for, and or understanding of, other people and their cultures. The shortcomings of Lonely Planet's guide, noted above, mar an otherwise excellent publication. For the typical "Ugly American" wanting to "Do" Panama, the Lonely Planet guide should prove more than adaquate. If on the other hand, you are an open-minded traveler capable of independent thought, you might consider, also obtaining, "Getting to know PANAMA" by Michele Labrut, a former press attache to the French Embassy in Panama. Written with class, mature intelligence and a sense of respect for Panama and it's People, "Getting to know PANAMA", not only fills the gaps in the previous guide, it is also an excellent travel guide in it's own right and an outstanding source for unbiased information.
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Title: Adventures in Nature Panama (Adventures in Nature Series) by William Friar, Bill Friar ISBN: 1566912407 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Getting to know Panama by Michèle Labrut ISBN: 9589527647 Publisher: Focus Publications (Int), S.A. Pub. Date: 15 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Panama Map ISBN: 1553413598 Publisher: ITMB Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Panama Guide-Map by Treaty Oak, Editorial Escudo De Oro, S. A." "Editorial Escudo de Oro ISBN: 8437818109 Publisher: Treaty Oak Pub. Date: 30 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Costa Rica (LONELY PLANET COSTA RICA) by Rob Rachowiecki ISBN: 1740591186 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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