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Great preparation
We have read this book front to back and though we don't leave for a few weeks we feel so much more informed about opportunities within and country and tips to be better prepared. Great resource!

One of the best travel guides ever
I've traveled to over 40 countries in the past 15 years and read between 1-3 travel guides before going to each country.
Uganda: the Bradt Travel Guide (4th edition)
Philip Briggs has produced a masterpiece with his 4th edition of 'Uganda: the Bradt Travel Guide'. As a specialist tour operator who has visited Uganda before, I am familiar with other Uganda guidebooks and Bradt's latest edition is without a doubt, the best around. Everything the prospective visitor needs to know about Uganda is contained in this superb book. Briggs has done an exceptionally thorough job of updating the guide and I am confident that it will enable readers not only to see the best of the country, but also to understand it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Guidebooks    3. Travel    4. Travel - Foreign    5. Uganda    6. Travel & holiday guides    7. Travel / Africa   

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Great resource
This map is packed with our carry ons. It is a great resource! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction    2. General    3. Travel / road maps & atlases    4. Uganda   

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Beautiful memoir!
Through this well written memoir you get to learn a lot about Africa, specially about Rwandas history. Rosamund's life story is very interesting, the choices she made, the oportunities life offered to her and that she took. It's great to see all the good deeds she made and the things she achieved inspite of all the caos Rwanda has gone through in the last decades. She takes care of lots of orphan kids and shelters them at her property. She does her best to help these kids become the best they can be even they live surrounded by danger. I enjoyed the book very much and learned more about Africa and about humanity as well.

50 years are artfully packed into this memoir
What a well-written book! It reads like the memoir that it is, and memoirs require special storytelling skills when they cover an entire 50 years.And this is what the book does--covers 50 years of the author's life and Rwandan history.
Fascinating look into Rwanda's history
My interest in Rwanda was spurred by watching the movie "Hotel Rwanda" and reading "The Poisonwood Bible" (which is set in next door Congo).This book follows the life of a young woman that marries an African adventurer and goes there at a fairly young age.She winds up spending practically the rest of her life there, and provides a unique and interesting perspective on Rwanda's history.Watching "Hotel Rwanda" gave me only a snapshot - leading me to think that Hutus were crazy blood thirsty savages going after Tutsis.Well, many of them were, but this book gave me a little of the background as to why the Hutus are so crazy and militant.Rwanda certainly has had a turbulent history.
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Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Ethnic Cultures - General    4. Travelers    5. Women    6. Biography & Autobiography / General    7. Biography: general    8. Rwanda   

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Real African adventure
Most of this book is about true encounters with amazing animals in East Africa. The stories took me back to my own safari experiences in another part of Africa. If you've never been on safari and are thinking about going, this book will give you a good idea of what to expect. As implied in the title, beauty is also sometimes dangerous. The last part of the book is about an awful incident in which he and two of his clients were taken hostage by rebels who crossed the border from a nearby country. The area they were in should have been safe. Mark did all he could to take care of his clients, but in such a chaotic situation, no one can control what happens. Sadly, the couple who had been on safari with him several times was killed. It may have only been chance that he survived himself. I admire how he has honestly shared his feelings of loss and helplessness and also how he is trying to reconcile his love of Africa with what happened. Reading this book scared me but it also made me want to return to Africa to see more of this amazing continent.

Warning:This Book Will Whet Your Appetite for Safari!
I picked up Dangerous Beauty as an antidote to my post-safari blues upon returning home from my first trip to East Africa.By chapter one, I was so impressed by Mr. Ross' approach to safari and his passion for wildlife, especially the predators, that I just knew I had to weasel my way onto one of his future safaris, which I was lucky enough to do in the Summer of 2004.
Great stories from Africa
Dangerous Beauty is a great storybook. Mark C. Ross shares his incredible life stories in this book, and their fascinating. The way he encounters the same animals again and again and creates special bonds with them, even babysitting their children, to me is amazing. The book is impossible to put down because there is a new story with every five pages or so. The book leaves you breathless, wanting more. It's an awesome book, read it! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Africa, Eastern    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park    6. Crimes against    7. Essays & Travelogues    8. Literary    9. Safaris    10. Tourists    11. Travel - General    12. Travelers    13. Uganda    14. Wildlife watching    15. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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an enriching guide to Rwanda
Janice Booth's Rwanda guide not only is the most updated travel guidebook on Rwanda, but it also goes culturally/historically where the other guidebooks do not go. I spent several weeks in Rwanda in 2003, finding almost all the information in other guidebooks almost completely useless or irrelevant.Due to the genocide, and subsequent arrival of international aid, the entire infrastructure of the country, especially Kigali, had changed, and so the nuts and bolts information of hotels, transport, and other practicalities found in the Bradt guide were of great use. A great guide to Rwanda
The Bradt Guide is by far the most comprehensive guide to Rwanda that I was able to find.I don't know what I would have done on my trip without it.The book is a mix of background info and travel tips.One good thing to know is that Kigali has added a "5" in front of all the phone numbers since the guide was published.

For all going to Rwanda this guide is a must have!
To travel to Africa without a guide, paper or flesh, is a bit looney.But, this month, I found myself in Rwanda in said (and sad) condition. For the first few days I managed to blunder along, until I found and bought this great guide at a hotel side store (of course at a significant mark up).Read more

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

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Naipaul's glance at post-Colonial Africa
Shiva Naipaul's _North of South: An African Journey_ is the most cynical book I've ever read.It is a travelogue of the author's visit to three postcolonial African countries in the 1970s: Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.Naipaul is a Hindu, born in Trinidad, and he pays attention to the role (and plight) of South Asians (Hindus, Pakistanis, Sikhs, Parsees, etc) in East Africa.He also focuses on the black-white relations in Africa as well.Naipaul gives Africa and everyone involved in its affairs (whites, blacks and Asians) no credit whatsoever.Declining European colonial powers gave their African colonies political independence in the 1960s and a variety of demagogues like and Julius Nyerre in Tanzania who took power spouting third world varieties of socialism and Marxism.Despite claims of social and economic progress, Africa remains as backward as ever. Naipaul freely writes of his disgust with the countries and its deceived leadership from the first page of the book until the last.This book, like another reviewer noted below, certainly is not going to make it into a black studies program anytime soon.It is a relief from portraits of Africa that classify it as a tropical paradise, a land of innocents exploited by evil Europeans, or conversely an AIDS infested human disaster.Naipaul's cynicism shows Africa the way it really is-struggling, corrupt, deceived, but at the same time Afroca is chugging along optimistically in some areas, with idealism and occasional realism, and attempting to do as well as it can to develop itself.No dry textbook prose here; the book is short, easy to read, engaging and very well written.

Sadly neglected and misunderstood masterpiece
This is a wonderfully written book; Naipaul's proses flows effortlessly across the page, the connexion between thought and word is seemless.The comparatively small body of work Naipaul produced before his tragic early death has been neglected in favour of that of his less talented, but longer lived, brother (a Nobel Prizewinner).However in this one work, Naipaul's prosody surpasses anything produced either by his brother, or by other twentieth century travel writers like Thoreau.That said, some of the other reviews here are ludicrously jaundiced and do a disservice to the book itself.This is no crude work of 'anti-pc' nonsense (an American political term that the archly European Naipaul would have shuddered at).The prose is not illiberal (in the American sense of the term) but rather aristocratic, in the best tradition of Evelyn Waugh (the writer Naipaul most resembles).Like Waugh, Naipaul's caustic observations rip into the heart of human weakness and frailty, exposing the hypocrisy and cant from all sides.The pretensions of ghastly businessmen disgust him as much as the crudity of the black 'socialists'.Those who seek to defend either Marxism or any form of business enterprise system face Naipaul's perfectly expressed derision.I personally found Naipaul's lack of human feeling at the extent of Africa's poverty a little shocking but it is a rapturous pleasure to be so shocked.

Tragic, funny account of the Way We Were ....
North of South describes Shiva Naipaul's journey through Eastern Africa as it emerged from colonialism several decades ago. Optimism and energy prevailed alongside a blind faith in imported philosophies which pundits failed to translate meaningfully to the impoverished, illiterate masses around them.
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Subjects:  1. 20th Century Description And Travel    2. Africa    3. Description and travel    4. Essays & Travelogues    5. Kenya    6. Naipaul, Shiva,    7. Social Situations And Conditions    8. Tanzania    9. Travel    10. Travel - General    11. Zambia    12. Development studies    13. Journeys    14. Mozambique    15. Naipaul, Shiva    16. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    17. Travel / Essays & Travelogues    18. Travel writing    19. Uganda   

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

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The Bradt guide gives you a lot of really usable information
Last year I went to Uganda. The information given in the book was veryuseful for me. When you want to go to Uganda it is really necessary to buythis book. The first chapters of this book are about religion, history,polical and other general things about the "pearl of Africa". Inthe following chapters he crosses the whole country. All national parks areexplained in this chapters.Correct and accurate information is givenabout hotels where you can stay and about the quality of the hotels. Forexample he explains how get everywhere in the country. When you knownothing about "The pearl of Africa" or you know a lot aboutUganda, it will always be a very interesting book. Try it! ... Read more

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

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Dated but interesting travel up the Nile
I was lead to this book by Stanley Stewart's successive work "The Empire of Gengis Kahn" which I had found very amusing. This delightful travel book was written more than 10 years ago and this probably explains why it is a little bit outdated and difficult to find. But, we are still reading Robert Byron's "The Road to Oxiana", so that wouldn't be a problem. SS has planned a long trip up to the sources of the White Nile (the longer one) and gets there traveling through Egypt, Sudan and Uganda. He is taking along a girlfriend which is beatiful and proficient in Arabic (who could ask for more?). The trip is "on the rode", so felucas, barges, trains, and lorries are used and planes are reserved only for otherwise unbridgable tracts.
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Subjects:  1. Travel    2. Africa    3. Egypt    4. Sudan    5. Travel writing    6. Uganda   

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Good Photo Safari Book
Very good book.Deals with photographic safaris.There is only one page on hunting.There are very good descriptions of the different parks and the native people of the region.Information on visas is out of date. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Africa, East    3. Congo (Democratic Republic)    4. Geography (General)    5. Guidebooks    6. Safaris    7. Travel    8. Travel - Foreign    9. Wildlife watching   

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Solid and informative
The book is well organized and relatively recent.I don't know of any guides out that contain information gathered in 1999 and given that reality, this guide is very serviceable.Not as in depth as one would likebut seems better than the VERY outdated alternatives. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. General    3. Travel    4. Travel - Foreign    5. Travel & holiday guides    6. Travel / Africa    7. Uganda   

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an adventure in faith
This was a compelling story of a life changing experience in africa. It is a must read for any business type anticipating a trip to rural E Africa. Brehm shares invaluable lessons about far away cultures and a coming to faith without losing a self depreciating sense of humour.Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Africa, Northeast    3. Christianity - Christian Life - Business    4. Description and travel    5. Humanitarian assistance    6. Kenya    7. Missions & Missionary Work    8. Social conditions    9. Travel    10. Travel - Foreign    11. Uganda   

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Best East Africa Travel Guide
I am planning a trip to Africa and have scoured many bookstores and shelves for THE BOOK.Footprints provides a wonderful book for those who really want to know EVERYTHING in preparation for their trip--from tippingguides to safari ratings to hotel guides to crime and embassyinformation--ad infinitim. This book is wealth of practical information andprovides maps, history, culture and language information and even has abuilt in glossy color wildlife section on theflora and fauna one willencounter whilst in East Africa. Having a comprehensive guide in a smallpackage (~6x4 in) is essential since travellers are limited to backageweight restrictions. (Books taken are thusly limited).This book willprovides excellent reading material (as well as a travel resource) for allthings East African before, during and after travel.Restaurants andhotels are rated by $ and quality, as are safari companies.Each page isdouble columned in small print, absolutely LOADED with essentialinformation. The version offered for 1999 has a hardbinding, which is aplus.Unfortuantely, all post-1999 Footprint editions are now softcover.If you can take only one book, this is it. This one will be one of twobooks in my bag. The other one will be Hemingway's 'Green Hills of Africa.' ... Read more

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

Subjects:  1. Travel    2. Kenya    3. Tanzania    4. Travel / road maps & atlases    5. Uganda   

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Never again with footprint
Luckily we had a two year old lonely planet book about east Africa as well. The footprint isunreliable, maps are wrong, addresses are wrong, hotels non exist, ....Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. HotelsInnsetc.    3. Museums, Tours, Points of Interest    4. Travel    5. Travel - Foreign    6. Travel & holiday guides    7. Uganda   

Subjects:  1. 1971-1979    2. Description and travel    3. Politics and government    4. Social life and customs    5. Uganda   

Subjects:  1. 20th Century Description And Travel    2. Africa    3. Africa, East    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Churchill, Winston,    7. Description and travel    8. General    9. Nile River Valley    10. Uganda    11. Churchill, Winston    12. Journeys   

Subjects:  1. Rwanda    2. Tanzania    3. Travel / road maps & atlases   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Exports & Imports    5. Industries - General    6. International - General    7. Reference - Directories    8. International business    9. TRAVEL & HOLIDAY