Footprint’s Sumatra Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of this Indonesian island, including popular destinations like Lake Toba, Bukittinggi and the Riau archipelago, as well as lesser visited places off the beaten track. It includes highlights of Sumatra illustrated with colour photography, its new travel-proof paperback format fits easily into a travel bag. The guide has practical advice on everything from haggling to hiking, fascinating background information on every aspect of the island’s heritage plus unique colour maps to help plan a visit.

Footprint Sumatra Handbook: The Travel Guide

Travel

Eliot, Joshua

Bickersteth, Jane

Asia

Passport Books

Describes the area, discusses its history, and provides information on accommodations, dining, attractions, and activities

Thailand Handbook (Footprint Handbooks Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Describes the area, discusses its history, and provides information on accommodations, dining, attractions, and activities

Cambodia Handbook (Footprint Handbooks Series)

Colet, John

Africa

Eliot, Joshua, Bickersteth, Jane, Morrison, Tamsin

Footprint Malaysia & Singapore Handbook: The Travel Guide

Morrison, Tamsin

NTC Pub. Group

A travel guide covering all the nation's major regions. Information on accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, and food is included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Footprint Indonesia Handbook: The Travel Guide

Capaldi, Liz

Aglionby, John

Sumatra is a natural wonderland of luxuriant forests, fast-flowing rivers, vast swamps, cool highland lakes and imposing volcanoes. It encompasses a panoply of trees, flowers, mammals, birds, reptiles and insects to satisfy the most demanding naturalist - among them the world's largest flower, the 'Rafflesia', the orang-utan, Asian elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros and tiger, the sunbear, three species of gibbon, ten species of hornbill and the (occasionally) man-eating estuarine crocodile. But the island's fascination lies in its interplay of nature and culture. Strikingly beautiful, Sumatra is also home to an array of cultures that have maintained their identity even in the face of Jakarta's modernizing tendencies

Footprint Sumatra (Footprint Handbooks)

Footprint Handbooks

Thailand is an Asian cliché. Exotic, inscrutable, hot, Oriental, delicate, sumptuous... Take the first few hours of an average visitor's arrival in Bangkok. Off the plane and into a gleaming new airport terminal. Lilting Thai voices, and a strange alphabet. Into the city along an elevated highway in the company of an apparently deranged taxi driver with a magic diagram inscribed on the roof of his car, a picture of a long-dead king lodged reverently in the tachometer, a cheap gold Buddha glued to the top of the dashboard, and a garland of plastic frangipani hanging from the rear-view mirror. Out of the taxi and into a quiet, cool hotel with copies of the Asian Wall Street Journal artfully arranged in reception and CNN in the bedrooms. Or into a small guesthouse run by a Thai bobbing to Bob Marley and offering sweltering rooms the size of chicken coops for the price of a dozen eggs. While most people do touch base in effervescent Bangkok, and some grow to love the city, for many it is just a means to an end, a way station en route to the islands, beaches and towns of the south. With 2,614 km of coastline, there's a lot of potential. But, while many come to Thailand in search of a simple hut on a quiet beach, the challenge is to find one before the next person - or the next 10,000 people - get there. The pace of change is sometimes bewildering. Bear in mind that in the early 1970s Phuket was a forgotten backwater. But it is still possible to find simple bungalow accommodation for a couple of dollars a night, and probably a quiet beach, clear waters and an empty hammock.

Bangkok & the Beaches Handbook (Footprint - Travel Guides)

Singapore is an unlikely place. It has been engineered to unexpected economic success and 'imagineered' into an entertainment playground for the historically and ecologically impaired citizens of Singapore, whose government once implored them to 'have spontaneous fun'. A report in The Economist judged Singapore to be the most boring city in the world. For those who fail to venture beyond the plazas that line Orchard Road, or spend their time on coach trips to the ersatz cultural extravaganzas, this is not surprising. But, despite its brash consumerism and toy-town mentality, Singapore is certainly not without its charm.

Footprint Pocket Guide Singapore

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