The book has everything you need to know about doing some off-piste motorcycling. It makes some amazing trips sound vaguely feasible. Even for more mundane trips around the UK and Europe it has loads of good stuff about selection of gear and bike. It has loads of good biking stories too.
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Stedman's trekking guide to Kilimanjaro really is a gem of a guide. It provides just about all the information you might need to help you conquer Africa's great white peak. A mine of practical information that will help take you from planning your trip to the summit and which you will probably find you take with you on your way up the mountain.Certainly when I turned Kilimanjaro into Kili half the party I was with had a copy of this book with them!
Henry Stedman covers his subject very methodically taking you from the early planning of which tour companies to use or if you arrange your trek on arrival which trekking agencies to use. The equipment you will need and the health precautions you should take. He progresses through the ... Read More:
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If you are planning to take a trip on the Trans-Siberian, Trans-Mongolian or Trans-Manchurian railway, I URGE you to purchase this book! I cannot express how invaluable this book was to me during my trip.
The book contains a wealth of important information. It helps you to book your trip with suggestions of companies to go through as well as informing you of any complications that may arise such as visas, vaccinations. It has a stop-by-stop guide of the entire length of the railway for all 3 journies as well as kilometre markings and places of interest along the route outside of stops, for photo opportunities and such.
Inside of stops, for the bigger towns along the way it contains a map (very valuable) marking out places ... Read More:
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This is a very good book if you've done little or no touring: there is a lot of good, sensible advice on equipment etc.
The book's coverage seems to be very good on Asia, but for other parts of the world it seems cursory and under-researched. The UK, Ireland, and Italy are not mentioned at all.
We are going to walk the inca trail later this year, and have so far found this book great, although there are only a handful of photos.If we want to know anything we turn to our little guide.So far I've looked up advice on what innoculations you need, what to watch out for with insurance,altitude sickness, what to pack,the route and maps, and i've hardly explored this little book that's as big as my hand.
There is still chapters on Route Options (including vilcamba Trail, classic trail, Mollepata trek), What to Take ( clothes, medical, internet sites,etc)Pre Departure Health Preparations, Peru facts about the country (gegraphical background, historical outline, culture, flora and fauna, visas, accomodation etc)The incas (Mastercraftsmen,Inca Government, ... Read More:
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In fact you only this book period because it tells you how to get around as well as defining what there is to detain a rail traveller in any particular place. We found it absolutely brilliant. I left my other guide books at home and slowly discarded brochures from JNTO as largely redundant.
The phrases in the back of the book were more helpful than a 3 month night school of Japanese 1 and the timetables are still fairly accurate. You can check these locally, on the internet before you leave, when you are there or have your nice Nagoya Hotel do that for you (Hotel Astria). All JR stations will help as well!
Back to the book however, what it doesn't tell you is really not worth knowing. We visited 2 listed steam attractions; the Locomotive ... Read More:
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I have to commend this book to anyone contemplating a trip to the desert; there's a lot in here even if "your desert" is not in North Africa. This is a first class work, and invaluable information is contained within. As an old desert-hand myself, it made an interesting read, and proved that you can teach an old dog new tricks!
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This is really, as one of the other comments mentioned, the only book yu'll need on your walk from Walls end to Bowness. It's light to carry, easy to navigate in, and extremely detailed maps - hand drawn - you can almost recognize every sheep or cow from the maps :)
There is a new, updated version (2008) of this, but we used the last one (this one). Check out the new version, as there are some mistakes in this one, although they are few and mostly good ("be ware of bulls" -fields not containging bulls anymore).
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This is really, as one of the other comments mentioned, the only book yu'll need on your walk from Walls end to Bowness. It's light to carry, easy to navigate in, and extremely detailed maps - hand drawn - you can almost recognize every sheep or cow from the maps :)
There is a new, updated version (2008) of this, but we used the last one (this one). Check out the new version, as there are some mistakes in this one, although they are few and mostly good ("be ware of bulls" -fields not containging bulls anymore).
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I, and 2 pals, used this book to walk the entire SDW last Month and found it to be an invaluable guide to the route. With accurate timings, great detailed maps and even the odd off-beat funny comment, it was easy to navigate and follow the route from it. The detail on planning was also excellent and we planned the whole trip from detail in this book - even refering to it during the trip to change our plans! OK a couple of telephone numbers have changed, but a quick look on the net produced the correct ones without problem. Of course the trip was made much better by not having to get the waterproofs out once, but I don't think this book was responsible for the weather!
A great walking guide that is a must for anyone doing the South Downs Way!
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