Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Guidebooks    3. Malawi    4. Travel    5. Travel - Foreign   

Reviews (2)

The perfect Malawi guide book.
This book rocks. After eight trips to Malawi I know never to go without it because I now know I can rely on it. The book is well organized, up-to-date, and gives accurate and practical advice. It's also tightly organized and so it's smaller and more easily portable than most but packed with good information. The publisher has anticipated what we need to know most and there are numerous subjects highlighted in boxed sections, easy to find--health tips, ferry schedules, driving rules, sample itineraries, special sites to visit in each region, etc. The opening section on history and culture is particularly good. Maps, throughout the book, are clear and useful. The photos are wonderful. The lodging and eating recommendations are excellent and, again, reliable. If you're going, get this one.

Lonely Planet Malawi
Having previously been to Malawi and with the intention of going back to see more of the country, I found this book very helpful. It gives a nice range of accomidations and travel methods and is very realistic about what to expect from each. More so helpful is the political and cultural history the book gives so that one knows what is and is not acceptable from a foreigner traveling within the country. This book indicates that Malawi is a great place to start an African adventure and additionally gives info about getting to the countries surrounding Malawi (i.e. Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique) and what to expect from them. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Travel    3. Travel - Foreign    4. Malawi    5. Travel & holiday guides   

Subjects:  1. Malawi    2. Travel / road maps & atlases   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Travel    3. Travel - Foreign    4. Malawi    5. Travel & holiday guides    6. Travel / Africa   

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Verbose and superficial: a waste of money
...I bought this book to make plans for a trip to Zambia but the chapter about this country is only 40 pages long, both verbose and superficial.Don't get fooled by the "Adventuring" in the title, unless your idea of adventure is to hop by plane from lodge to lodge at $200 or $300 a night.More importantly, except for the park entrance fees, this book doesn't list any price at all (I got them from two other, excellent, travel guides).Comments on cheaper accomodations are few and disenchanted.The maps are equally few and over-simplified (the roads don't even appear!...)Finally, I looked at the chapters about the other countries and it certainly didn't change my opinion about this book.Note also that the date of the last edition (October 97) makes it relatively outdated.

Outstanding and thorough book about South Africa
This book is an outstanding resource to be read prior to traveling to South Africa.It covers many different aspects of what the experience will entail.These include the history, etiquette, positives and negatives ofeach type of travel, various diseases and safety precautions one shouldtake.In addition, he thoroughly delivers every aspect of each southafrican country...ie. countryside, animals, weather, and history.Thisbook in interesting, exciting, and educational!

Outstanding and thorough book about South Africa
This book is an outstanding resource to be read prior to traveling to South Africa.It covers many different aspects of what the experience will entail.These include the history, etiquette, positives and negatives ofeach type of travel, various diseases and safety precautions one shouldtake.In addition, he thoroughly delivers every aspect of each southafrican country...ie. countryside, animals, weather, and history.Thisbook in interesting, exciting, and educational! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Africa, Southern    3. Guidebooks    4. Safaris    5. Travel    6. Travel - Foreign    7. Wildlife watching    8. Active outdoor pursuits    9. Southern Africa    10. Sports & Recreation / General    11. Travel & holiday guides   

Subjects:  1. Description and travel    2. Rhodesia and Nyasaland   

Subjects:  1. Hunting    2. Mozambique    3. Rhodesia and Nyasaland   

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Mountsafarisadventure Trekking in Kenya is Good.
To the auther , davidelse/ david wenk.
Mountsafarisadventure Trekking in Kenya.
To the auther , davidelse/ david wenk.
Good introduction, but not enough on the trekking peaks
I found this book a good introduction to anyone expecting to go trekking in East Africa.It goes over, in substantial detail, all the factors you may face (medicine, visas, hotels, transportation, tours, trails, etc.).However, there is very little on the trekking peaks, which I thought would be the most interesting portion of the book.For example, on Mt Kilimanjaro there are only maybe 5-6 pages, with only an overview description of the routes.If you are looking for overall trekking in East Africa, this is good book, but if you are looking for info on the trekking peaks, there are other, more specific guides, that may be more helpful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Africa, East    3. Guidebooks    4. Hiking    5. Travel    6. Travel - Foreign    7. Walking    8. Kenya    9. Malawi    10. Tanzania    11. Travel & holiday guides    12. Uganda    13. Walking, hiking, trekking    14. Zambia   

Subjects:  1. Guidebooks    2. Malawi   

Subjects:  1. African    2. American - General    3. General    4. Malawi    5. Poetry    6. Prisons    7. Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -   

Subjects:  1. Africa, Central    2. Bantu-speaking peoples    3. Description and travel    4. Liberia    5. Malawi    6. Mozambique   

Subjects:  1. Asia - General    2. Travel    3. Travel - Foreign    4. ASIA    5. Area / regional studies    6. Places & peoples: general interest    7. Reference works   

Subjects:  1. Travel   

Reviews (1)

Thoughful, Philosophical, Introspective Story of Expedition
Just after World War II, Van der Post was sent by the British government to explore and report on two little known and little inhabited regions of British Nyasaland (later Malawi).These two areas are highlands andmountainous, rather atypical of Africa.With the help of colonial officersand numerous African guides and porters he completed the assignment, filedhis report and later wrote this short book.Read more

Subjects:  1. Botswana    2. Malawi    3. Travel writing   

Subjects:  1. African    2. Malawi    3. Poetry    4. Self-Help    5. Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -   

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malawi suffered insilence
Toallthosewhohelpintakingpower fromDr Banda I have tohandittothemforajobwelldone. This bookproves howDrBanda andhissocalledgovernmenttreatedpeopleinMalawi and howAfricadictators aresogreedyand havelackofhumanrespect. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Mapsu, Sam    2. Political imprisonment   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Travel - Foreign    3. Malawi    4. Travel & holiday guides   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Description and travel