- Paperback: 1084 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet; 10th Revised edition edition (Mar 15 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1740594622
- ISBN-13: 978-1740594622
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 4.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1 Kg
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At Lonely Planet, we see our job as inspiring and enabling travelers to connect with the world for their own benefit and for the benefit of the world at large.
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We believe that travel leads to a deeper cultural understanding and compassion and therefore a better world.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
At Lonely Planet, we see our job as inspiring and enabling travelers to connect with the world for their own benefit and for the benefit of the world at large.
What We Do
- We offer travelers the world's richest travel advice, informed by the collective wisdom of over 350 Lonely Planet authors living in 37 countries and fluent in 70 languages.
- We are relentless in finding the special, the unique and the different for travellers wherever they are.
-We update our guidebooks by visiting thousands of places in person to get the details right and tell it as it is.
- We always offer the trusted filter for those who are curious, open minded and independent.
- We challenge our growing community of travelers; leading debate and discussion about travel and the world.
- We tell it like it is without fear or favor in service of the travelers; not clouded by any other motive.
What We Believe
We believe that travel leads to a deeper cultural understanding and compassion and therefore a better world.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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This new volume covers the entire continent, including Madagascar. Numerous handy maps and practical visa plus border crossing information offer a range of transportation options from flight to foot. Also includes valuable health, safety, and language tips.
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Africa is the Mother of Civilisation and North Africa her regal head. Read the first page
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3.9 out of 5 stars (19 customer reviews)
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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Don't head for Africa without Africa on a Shoestring in your pack, Sep 5 2005
By Jason Brown "Africaddict" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lonely Planet Africa on a Shoestring (Paperback)
As someone who just returned from a solo tour(via local buses, trains and hitch-hiking) through Botswana, Zambia and Namibia with this book in my pack I feel I can review it more fairly than those who have simply looked it over while dreaming about a future trip.While no single book can give an indepth look at every country, this one gives you all the information you need to travel through Africa on a budget. Best of all it is small enough to fit in your pack and well built enough to make it through the trip in one piece. I will be going back next year and this book will be coming along.
As you can guess, with only about twenty five pages per country, some info is glossed over or left out all together. Due to space constraints Lonely Planet left out some of the "where to go and what to see" advice but they made sure to include all the information relevant to transportation and lodging. If you need more indepth information you should buy one of the individual guides that cover each country you plan to visit along with Africa on a Shoestring.
My one gripe with this book is that it seems a bit too focused on the backpacker/camper type lodging. I personally prefere to travel like the locals and stay in guest-houses and cheap hotels and at times this book skips right over this information. The worst way to save three dollars a night is to pitch a tent on the ground instead of booking into a local guest house. When you stay at one of the urban campsites the only "culture" you are going to experience is provided by the young, loud, drunken tourists. Not my idea of fun.
If you are looking for a book that will make traveling in Africa trouble free you are going to be disspointed, that book does not exist and never will. In Africa almost nothing is easy and that includes travel. But that is part of the adventure.
If you want to see Africa without all the hassle then you need to talk to one of the travel agents who offer all inclusive tours for small groups in large overland trucks. You will get some nice photos but you won't really be traveling "in" Africa, you will be traveling "over" it, and you don't need any book for that.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not as detailed as the previous edition, July 21 2007
By M. Tran - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Africa 11th Ed.: 11th Edition (Paperback)
I was traveling with the LP Africa on a Shoestring 6 months ago. I purchased this new edition to see how LP has updated it and I'm not impressed. I don't think they did much for the Southern Africa section except remove a few things like places to stay and cities that they didn't feel tourists would get to (ex: Barra in Mozambique, Nata and Ghanzi in Botswana). Don't even think about just taking this book when you're traveling (and I have seen travelers with only this book!). If you're planning just to do Southern Africa and/or East Africa, get the books LP has out for these two regions because they will be more detailed and meet friends along the way for more recent advice/info. I was surprised to find that some of the places I visited and enjoyed in Southern Africa were no longer in the new edition. The general country info and other advice in this book are still as good as the last edition (with more current events added) and I recommend it to anyone thinking about doing a multi-country trip to Africa. It is great for planning your travel destinations.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Travel collections will find this a popular pick, Oct 15 2010
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lonely Planet Africa 12th Ed.: 12th Edition (Paperback)
Anthony Ham's AFRICA packs in over 250 detailed small maps and is the only guide for independent travelers to cover the entire continent. Fast facts, tips on where to see local culture and wildlife alike, and plenty of town-by-town descriptions for accommodations, food and more make this a thick but welcome take-along tote. Travel collections will find this a popular pick.
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