|
Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Bradt Travel Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Tim Clancy
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
Buy Used: $4.69
You Save: $17.26 (79%)
New (11) Used (11) from $4.69
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 821095
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 280
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1841620947
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9781841620947
ASIN: 1841620947
Publication Date: July 1, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Good; Really Good Condition Softcover, **EX-LIBRARY Book, with minimal stickers, stamps, and no pocket** -- Exactly as pictured -- EXACT ISBN MATCH -- No writing in the text at all. Tight and well bound. Cover has minor shelf wear at edges. No Spine Creasing. Ships Quickly - IN STOCK - Satisfaction Guaranteed!
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This one-of-a-kind comprehensive guide to Bosnia and Herzegovina covers the natural wonders of the area, history and culture, Sarajevo festivals and nightlife, and practical information for travelers.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Post War BiH tourism? August 12, 2005
Susan (Lindenhurst, IL USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
In July '05, I visited BiH and Croatia for the first time and used the Brandt guide to help me traverse BiH. BiH has many amazing cities and sites to visit, but they are difficult to find and not marked. The travel guide was helpful in that it served mostly to inform me of many of the sites. BiH is not very commercial and I found local assistance a necessity, but that was not stated in the book. For instance, I attempted to find some Illyrian ruins highly recommended in the book, needless to say, we got lost and even the locals could not help guide us to the reference found in the book. In Mostar, we went to look at one of the oldest Ottoman houses that was mentioned in the book and the owner was taken by suprise when we began looking at the house. Finally, street signs are difficult to find in some cities and maybe this explains why the maps in the travel guide were at times incomplete.
Overall, this book begins to expose many amazing BiH sites for travel, and as time passes and the wounds of war begin to heal, more tourists will again realized the history that lies in this beautiful country.
B&H well worth a visit September 2, 2005
Milo XIII (Warsaw, Poland)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's about time someone produced a travel guide dedicated to Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a fascinating and beautiful country steeped in a complex and captivating history. And it is in desperate need of income from any legitimate source, so why not tourism? Like the author, I am particularly fond of Herzegovina, partly due to having lived in Mostar for two years in the 90s. I will attempt a fuller review of the book later, but most wanted to comment on two shortcomings in this mostly wonderful book that leapt out at me.
The first is that the Mostar restaurant guide section consists almost entirely of East Mostar locales. While I cannot disagree with the descriptions of the restaurants listed, I can't help but wonder what happened to Hrvoje, Admiral, Stela, and other standout restaurants in the area.
The other is the short shrift given to some of the wineries in the area. While some large wineries produce utter mediocrity, near Citluk and Medjurgoje are some rather good wineries, the best of which is Andrija. This winery is known for excellent whites and rose's, and also had a delightful cherry-flavored liquor made from grapes. While the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia is deservedly well known for its reds and rose's, the finer Herzegovinian whites must not be overlooked where available!
I might also add that, rather than staying and eating in Neum, it is well worth your while to head to Mali Ston, a few kilometers east in Croatia. The Kapitanova Kuca is one of the best restaurants in either Bosnia and Herzegovina or Croatia.
Good book in changing times August 17, 2005
Pinimage.com (Israel)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Things are changing fast in BiH. Roads that describe as footpaths can now be reached by car (village of Lukomir )
Even though this book is the only one available for the traveler in Bosnia & Hercegovina.
The book is updated to year 2004 and this is quite good.
I also lack the names of places to be writen in kerilic letters like in other books.
Well You Do Not Have Much of a Choice September 8, 2006
Emin Ozgur (Istanbul, Turkey)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the only updated guide on the area so there it might be pointless to comment on it. I'd definitely buy it because the region is quite poor on information anyway. But a lot of time the book is limited and the maps are usually quite useless.
I tried doing to walking tour in Mostar and also looked for some locations mentioned in Sarajevo in vain. Sometimes the author mentions streetnames which are not usually marked, some locations he talks about are impossible to find without asking people.
On the positive side, the author is not some dude with a backpack visiting the country. He lives in BiH and has a lot of first hand information. I wish he would share more of it with us.
Bosnia and Herzegovina : The Bradt Travel Guide (Bradt Travel Guide) May 9, 2006
N. Tosic (Sydney, NSW AUSTRALIA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well researched and impartial guide to a beautiful place with an incredibly turbulent history. Very insightful and honest. BiH's tourism infrastructure may not be the well oiled machine that your find in other European destinations - but that just increases the joys of travelling the paths less travelled and very soon, this too will change. I would have appreciated more information on travel times between towns/cities. For a first time traveller to the region, this book has proven invaluable. Overall: 4.5 stars!
|
|
|
|
| |
