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Insight Guide Chile includes a section detailing Chile's history, 7 features covering the country's life and culture, ranging from its pure Cabernet Sauvnon vines to its excellent huaso horsemanship, a region by region visitor's guide to the Insights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus 14 maps and many magnificent photographs.
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Love this series of books.......2007-01-10
As a seasoned traveler, the Insight Guides series have become my favorite travel companion. They are not the traditional guides that tell you the cheap places to stay and eat, rather they are detailed guides to the history, culture and things to see in the countries you will be visiting, complete with great photos. They are well researched and I learn things about the country that even the natives don't know. If you are looking for a "where to sleep" kind of guide, you will have to purchase a second, more traditional travel book (like Lonely Planet, etc.). I personally would not think about visiting a country without first reading the "Insite Guide."
Must have for the Chile novice!.......2006-01-14
This guide together with the "Chile Footprint" is the perfect combo for the first-time Chile traveler. Why? This guide will quickly and informatively bring you close to Chile's geography, history, culture, ethnic groups and most all aspects important to know when travelling there for the first time. It is not too "scientific", nor is it too superficial. Just right.
It is a colorful and high quality book (Discovery Channel) that I was not able to put down until I went through it all.
NOTE: This guide however does not suffice to give specific direction for restaurants, hotels and other facilities or locations needed by travellers. Therefore by itself it is insufficient. For the travel agenda detail you need to get "Footprint Chile". A perfect Chile guide just like a Frommer's. Both books together are the perfect combo !!
good good chile reference.......2003-02-09
good but not truly useful reference for chile
wish there was a more comprehensive listing of hotels and restaurants but i guess thats where the lonlely planet books excel. this book has excellent photos and is a very easy read and i would make it of of three travlel book to this country i would take with me
From an ex-Lonely Planet reader.......2002-06-07
What's the first thing you want to know about a country? Why do I want to visit. For answering this question Insight guides do an excellent job. Interesting descriptions complemented by pictures get you interested in Chile and what the country has to offer. Comparably Lonely planet guides are like a phone book. There is more information in them - often out of date - but little effort or detail is put in about the features of the country itself. My only problem with Insight is that its informational section is lacking. My suggestion is read insight, determine where and when you want to visit and then seek out up to date information on hotels, etc. from another source.
Pretty book, useful to learn but not to help you travel.......2000-09-25
This is a nice book to own and to use at home, but not a book I'd use valuable backpack real estate to tote on a trip. It will give you good background on the history, geaography, and culture of the country and has better pictures than the other guides, but isn't strong on telling you where to eat, what route to use, where to stay, how to get along. I bought mine to show people what Chile is like, and it's great for that.
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More user-friendly and small enough to fit into your pocket or purse, the informative Insight Compact Guides are the perfect on-the-spot travel guide. .Full-colour photos throughout .Top ten sights and recommended tours and excursions .Topics of interest and useful phrases .Travel tips section and map locator icons
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Chile Insight Guide (Insight Guides)
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- this book lies...
- Insight Guide to Chile
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Insight Guide to Chile (2nd ed)
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Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library)
ASIN: 0395774586 |
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this book lies..........2001-06-10
This is a terrible book. For someone who has lived in Chile and knows what is actually like there, I can say that the only thing this book really shows is what Americans want to see (poor but not upset about it, "evolving" but not quite there yet, etc.). I don't think the Insight Guides actually sent a photographer to Chile for this second edition. The photographs are very out of date. This book upset me, but it angered a lot of my Chilean friends. The picture of the band on page 81 is Ilapu, not Inti-Illimani. I'm an anthropology student who is writing a review of the Insight Guides. None of them are any better than this one. Don't buy them. If you need to travel with guides or gear, don't travel. Chile is not deepest, darkest Africa. Even in deepest, darkest Africa (as well as in Chile) there are people just like you who live there, who will tell you everything you need to know about where they live. The Insight Guides imply that there is some incredible difference, that just dosen't exist. They lie.
Insight Guide to Chile.......2000-07-23
An excellent, and informative guide, providing more than just typical "tourist" info. This volume also covered the history of the region as well as aspects of culture and daily life covering the range of regions in the country. I found the volume extremely helpful and am planning a trip to the area in the near future.
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Chile Insight Compact Guide
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Chile Insight Compact Guide (Insight Compact Guides)
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- The perfect gift for Father's Day and any day!
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A Father's Journal
Terry Kretzer-Malvehy
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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers
ASIN: 087358712X |
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The perfect gift for Father's Day and any day!.......2000-05-13
This is a gift from the heart for both the giver and the receiver. Every father or father-to-be should take the time to enter "his" story in this journal written just for fathers by Linda Kranz. As in her four previous journals, Linda provides "thought-starters" that lead the writer through the journaling process. This journal is divided into two sections, the first and larger, encourages fathers to share memories about their lives such as their first job, learning to drive, family/holiday traditions, and other facets of their growing up. The second focuses on the father's experiences with his children and their time together. A copy of "A Father's Journal" should be put in the hands of every new father and all fathers of growing and grown children. This is a true record of a father's family history and should be shared and passed down through the family over and over again.
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Sitting Bull Remembers
Ann Turner
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As a renowned Lakota Sioux chief and shaman, Sitting Bull's dedication to the survival of his people earned him both the respect and fear of allies and enemies alike. Readers will marvel at this bold leader and warrior whose abilities were put to the test in a series of violent confrontations with the U.S. government. From his life as a young warrior to his tragic death,
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The Sitting Bull You Never Knew
James Lincoln Collier
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Once upon the Little Big Horn
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
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- CUSTER AND CRAZY HORSE
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- Not for me; probably not for you
- Lacking
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The River and the Horsemen: A Novel of the Little Bighorn
Robert Skimin
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CUSTER AND CRAZY HORSE.......2007-06-30
Two of the greatest figures in historical history are put under the microscope. Not only do we learn and walk in the lives of George Armstrong Custer but with General Crazy Horse, an almost Christ-like figure of humility and master of warfare. Crazy Horse fought for his people and their right to their land. Custer was a very complex character who loved his wife and his country, however, he believed he could never be defeated, a modern day warrior with Caesar complex. Robert Skimin has the skill and ability to present these two great leaders warts and all.
What exactly led to the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It's inside these pages.
From the author.......2007-06-03
In reading the attacks on this book, I'm reminded that there will always be naysayers about historical novels...and any other book. One reviewer criticized the typo mixing of Miles and Myles, yet used the term "fictional novel" as he chopped away. Has anyone ever heard of a novel that wasn't fictional? Also critcized was a jocular exchange between Custer and Libbie--who always had fun. And why does the idea of some sex in the tipi upset anyone? Did the Sioux reproduce by artificial insemination? Another axe grinder didn't like the Civil War photo of Custer being on the cover. First of all, authors don't pick cover art and secondly, does this guy have anything constructive to do? The knowledgeable and highly respected LBH historians, such as the now deceased Brian Pohanka, liked the book. And in its new trade paper edition, more readers unfamiliar with the famous battle, will learn much.
Not for me; probably not for you.......2002-02-15
Mr. Skimin's book is not for people who have in-depth knowledge of the Little Big Horn; but I don't think it's for people who don't know much about it, either.
There is too much low-skill novelizing. Too many real people brought in just to make a book, mixed in with invented folk who read like cliches. The true and known stories from 1876 are strong enough without inventing sex in the tipi (Indian side), the jocular inventions in the Bismark brothel (soldier side), and the invented conversations between the Custers (tho fortunately Skimin does draw the veil with Autie and Libbie). And why use a real person's name and make him a racist/sadist if you're going to invent a Jewish victim? Why not invent the sadist too? That didn't seem fair to the real sergeant. Mr. Skimin willingly invented half a dozen Indians and gave them leading roles. Why not the sadist?
Aside from mixing up Miles and Myles, at the end of the book the man we've come to know and admire as Frederick Benteen suddenly becomes Thomas Benteen. Fred's brother was there? Clearly there was no editor on this project, but Mr. Skimin must have been napping when he read the galleys.
Mr. Skimin did a very good job of building a narrative around Custer's last winter. This may be the first time I can tell you where he was from December to May 1876, and I've read everyone from van de Water to Utley.
But I didn't appreciate the fictionalized last stand, with Keogh or Keough being run through by our Indian hero, nor the detailed inventions of how many times Tom Custer was shot or that Cooke was shot twice and also hit with an arrow. The book just isn't written well enough to make that stuff work. For someone who did that fine, try Hoffman Birney's "The Dice of God."
You can tell this book by it's cover. The photo of Custer is from the Civil War. He was photographed many times on the frontier. Why not use a photo more appropriate to the book? I don't know.
Lacking.......2000-06-12
I was compelled to buy this book because of my long-standing interest in the conflicts between the whites and the Indians. This fictional novel, based on historical events, was found to be extremely light. Robert Skimin fleshed out characters, at times, in odd ways. I especially disliked the way real people were saddled with sexual, sadistic, and/or prejudicial characteristics. At times characters seemed to be introduced in a helter skelter manner just to add to the list of real people that he included in the novel. In places, I felt, he mixed combinations of traits just to add a new twist. For example, he had a former Jewish Russian solder, who was a black belt in Judo, defend himself against a sadistic, bigoted and not too bright sargent. Robert Skimin did stay with the historical facts surrounding General Custer and the events that led up to his defeat at the Little Bighorn but as a whole any grade school history student could have easily gotten the same information about the Sioux, Cheyenne, and the 7th Calvary.
Also recommended: Custer's Luck, Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas, Killing Custer, Black Elk Speaks, The Road to the Little Big Horn-and Beyond,
Disappointing.......1999-12-21
This book is a blend of fiction and history, but works better as history than as fiction. The dialogue is stilted. An example: Custer says to his wife Libbie, "You are uncommonly wanton, Madame." Libbie responds, "I like that term, you handsome devil, but you didn't answer me." (p 5) In addition, the characters are little more than caricatures, so the reader does not really get involved with them.
As history, the book demonstrates that Custer's decisions were arguably defensible based on the information he had--in one sense, "Custer's luck" had simply run out and the fates worked against him. All things considerred, though, Custer was responsible for the disaster because he was an egomaniac who, thinking he was invincible, recklessly entered into a battle he could not win. Although the book does a decent job of presenting the catastrophe from various perspectives, the book shows signs of carelessness. A minor but telling example is that the spelling constantly alternates between "Miles" and "Myles" Keough.
The River and the Horsemen will appeal to people interested in Custer's last stand, but will not hold the interest of the general reader.
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Sitting Bull (First Biographies)
Lisa Trumbauer
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Sitting Bull (History Maker Bios)
Susan Bivin Aller , and
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