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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN num: 9781741044812
ISBN number: 1741044812
Label: Lonely Planet
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 292
Printing Date: June 01, 2008
Publishing house: Lonely Planet
Sale Popularity Level: 184395
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Discover Ukraine
Feast your eyes on Scythian gold and mummified monks at Kyiv's Caves Monastery
Descend to the underground control room for a former Soviet missile base
Jump over a fire with your beloved to test in your love will last
Tuck into a bowl of borshch with sausage or marinated apples
In This Guide:
Two authors; 15 weeks of in-country research; over 15 years' travel experience in Ukraine
Expanded coverage of western Ukraine and the Carpathians
Novelist Andrey Kurkov, a Carpathian rapper and a Tatar elder discuss life in Ukraine
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It's hard to judge a travel guide before the actual travel, but this guide is verbose and useful. There are recommended places to stay and good tips what to see.
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This is probably the worst travel guide I've ever read. It completely misses the point of travel in Ukraine. It's constantly referring to the sub-standard quality of virtually everything and trashes all but three or four destinations. I can't tell you how many times I read descriptions of places I've visited an scoffed at how offhandedly they were dismissed.
People don't visit Ukraine for a relaxing week of 5-star hotels and Western European-style tourism. If not looking for family or engaging in business, people come to Ukraine for a decidedly different tourist experience. Yes, it's an experience that is a little rough around the edges. But it's also filled with cheap and convenient travel, incredibly hospitable and authentic people, and a surprisingly rich and diverse country that mixes snowy birch forests and rocky sub-tropical beaches, as well as European and Soviet history. However, this book is content to write off entire regions of Ukraine.
The LP folks were recently back in Ukraine doing research for the new edition, but I'm not all that hopeful much of this can be salvaged. Go with the Bradt Guide, it's the best guide to Ukraine available.
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I recently used this book on a 2 week trip to Ukraine, we spent most of our time in Eastern Ukraine and a few days in Kiev. The coverage of Eastern Ukraine is sparse, to say the least. Kharkov, for instance, is a huge city but there is very little coverage. The practical information that is presented is useful, however, I feel that it has a very negative connotation (watch out! this country is dangerous! kids will hate it!) and the author approaches it with more fear/caution than sense of adventure and exploration.
The historical/cultural information that is presented is interesting to read, and the author makes some great recommendations for future reading about Ukraine.
I'm glad that we had this book with us, but we found the Bradt guide much, much more detailed and useful for use while in Ukraine.
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This little book is packed with information. I would say this book is essential if you know nothing about Ukraine, and very useful if you know some Ukrainian or Russian. Despite the fact that almost everyone in Ukraine speaks Russian, and in some areas they speak only Russian, all the sample translations in this book are in Ukrainian. It would be useful to have both Ukrainian and Russian translations in the book.
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I gave this book as a gift to a family member who was going to the Ukraine, and we found it to be very informative and useful.
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