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Climb the rocky spires of Torres del Paine, salsa all night in sizzling Santiago, explore the world's driest desert or follow Che's tracks through the Lakes District. Whether you're looking to brave the wilderness or wind through the wine country, our best-selling, opinion-packed Chile guide will take you to the end of the world...and back. HEAD SOUTH - expanded coverage of adventure paradise Patagonia, with side trips to Argentina RAISE A GLASS - discover Chilean wine with our intoxicating primer by a Colchagua Valley vintner PLAY HARD - sand-board desert dunes, paddle through ice-carved fjords or ski still-smoking volcanoes with our dedicated Outdoors chapter REST EASY - accommodations for every budget, from rustic mountain refugios and homey hospedajes to luxurious retreats and high-rise hotels LIVE IT UP - enjoy gourmet meals and top-notch culture in Santiago, uncover ValparaÃso's bohemian charms or sunbathe on Arica's plentiful beaches

HEAD SOUTH - expanded coverage of adventura paradise Patagonia with a side trip to Argentina

RAISE A GLASS - Discover Chilean wine with our intoxicating primer by a Colchagua Valley vintner

PLAY HARD - sand board desert dunes, paddle through ice-carved fjords or ski still-smoking volcanoes with our dedicated Outdoors chapter

REST EASY- accomodation for every budget, from rustic mountain refugios and homey hospedajesto luxurious retreats and high-rise hotels

LIVE IT UP- enjoy gourmet meals and top-notch culture in Santiago, uncover Valparaiso's bohemian charms or sunbath on Arica's plentiful beaches.

Customer Reviews:

Easter Island or Bust.......2007-08-24

I usually don't like the LPs but this one worked out great. I left it in Santiago with my sister. The thing about travel books is that they are just guides to give you ideas. Never go by the book, it makes for a boring life. The best adventures I have every had in South America were the ones that were not planned that goes for life too. The Easter Island part was good because it gave alot of info about the history and culture and gave directions to the museum so that we could get even more info if needed. I also like the Spanish vocab in the back because my Spanish is Mexican border now and guess what a sopa in SA is a bread and here in border land it is a soup. winter in Santiago you want soup not bread. Buy it and see the world the best thing in life is to follow you heart and dreams.

Great Guide To Cheap Accomodations.......2007-08-12

thanks to lonely planet we found chilestay apartments at www.chilestay.com an inexpensive alternative to a hotel. also, lonely planet provides a comprehensive and updated information about places to visit and enjoy.

not so helpful after all.......2007-04-21

I have used LP guides all over the world, mostly for the maps and hostel listings...so when I went to Chile, I happily bought the Chile guide. I threw it out two weeks later. The maps were incorrect again and again, information was just plain wrong, the listings unhelpful. We ended up walking all over one town looking for a hostel that had been misplaced on a map, we missed buses, and were shocked at how horrible "the best hostel in [a certain town]" was. Fine adventure and all, but after I trashed the LP, we used my friends' Rough Guide instead (which thankfully had correct info) and we saved our time and enjoyed ourselves for the rest of our trip.

found it useful.......2007-03-11

We went on a Princess cruise, so only used the guite for Santiago, Chile, Valparaiso, Porte Montte, Punta Arenas, Ushuaia, Falklands, montevideo, and BA. Wew found it useful. Did not really use the hotel or restuarant guides.

One of the best guide books for Chile.......2007-03-06

I travel in Chile often and extensively and can vouch for the quality of this guide book, especially this new edition. There's a lot of good guide books out there and every one has a different perspective, but I find LP's to include the broadest spectrum of information, for people on all different budgets with all different types of travel tastes, styles, and expectations. This edition just came out so you can trust that the info is up to date, and I agree with a lot of their recommendations of special hotels, restaurants, and off the trail places to check out. The southern chapters are excellent, in particular.

If you are heading to Chile, I urge you to pick up a copy of the poetry of their national hero, the great Nobel Laureate pacifist Pablo Neruda, subject of Il Postino / Postman and so much more. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems has been called by many as the best introductions and best books of his even if you already love and know him. Check it out. You will experience Chile differently after reading his words of passions. You will experience life differently. For more info, check out redpoppy dot net, a non-profit dedicated to furthering his commitment to humanitarianism and spreading his poetry around the globe.

Making a difference in this world, one poem at a time.

Paz y amor

Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island: A Lonely Planet Travel Atlas

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Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island (Atlas)
Lonely Planet Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay

Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island: A Lonely Planet Travel Atlas
Wayne Bernhardson
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet
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With full-color maps throughout. Travel information and roadtesting provided by guidebook author Wayne Bernhardson.

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Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island (Atlas).......2000-04-30

Very good maps and some good tips.

Lonely Planet Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.......2000-04-30

Very good guide, with plenty of helpful and detailed information!

Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island (Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island)

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Disappointing to an LP fan
A rather weak LP guide
Concise, filled with great information, excellently written.
Best of the Chile guides
a great guide

Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island (Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island)
Wayne Bernhardson
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From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travelers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most jaded globetrotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks for nearly 30 years, and as a result has experience and know-how similar to an older sibling's "been there" advice. The original backpacker's bible, the LP series has recently widened its reach. While still giving insights for the low-budget traveler, the books now list a wide range of accommodations and itineraries for those with less time than money.

The wonders of Chile's long stretch of landscape reach from tropical splendors in the north to icy behemoths in the south--with 4,000 kilometers of volcanoes, fjords, and lakes in between. Whether you seek outdoor or urban adventures, this guide has what you need to eat, sleep, speak, and experience the finest Chile has to offer. Also included are details for travel to the Falkland Islands and Antarctica. --Kathryn True

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From the searing Atacama Desert to frosty Patagonian glaciers, this book highlights an array of diverse destinations. Whether you wish to scale an Andean peak or sail the southern fjords, explore colonial Santiago or hit the beach in Viña del Mar, this guide will get you there.

accommodations for a range of budgets, from rustic refugios to family-run hospedajes to hot-spring resorts
the best places to taste pastel de choclo and sip pisco
where to trek, ski and run the rapids or observe llamas, penguins and condors
86 detailed maps, including many national parks
Spanish language section and glossary

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Disappointing to an LP fan.......2005-11-28

While staying in Argentina, my husband and I decided we'd like to travel to Chile for a short period of time, and thought we were lucky to find a copy of this book in a bookstore in Buenos Aires. In retrospect, I think we should have spent the money on a fancy restaurant (Yes, B.A. is that cheap.).

Even in helping us decide which city to travel to, this book contained little information, lacking the great in depth and funny stories that characterized the other LP books we've used. (Perhaps other cities in Chile had better info, but we were comparing Santiago, the capital, Valparaíso, and Viña del Mar.)

We ended up going to Viña del Mar, and in spite of the city being a huge tourist destination, there was little information about lodging; ditto for restaurants or entertainment. Those 3 things being our main use of the LP books (which we could not have lived without in Argentina and Brazil), I wish we had not wasted our money.

A rather weak LP guide.......2005-09-27

Some Lonely Planet guides become a traveler's "bible". Unfortunately not this one. I lived a whole year in Chile and during this time traveled extensively from north to south. The book is alright if you are just looking for a short overview and some basic info. However, the book falls sadly short of providing really detailed info on accomodation (especially budget and mid-range) or restaurants and in general too often only scratches the surface, leaves out less known but equally interesting places. In a nutshell - the LP is good for some practical info but shouldn't be the traveler's only source of information. I would recommend to buy either the "Chile Experience Travel Guide" (English) or the annually updated, excellent "Turistel" guides (Spanish), both by Turiscom. You can get them in any bookstore in Santiago or other Chilean cities. Chile is a wonderful country to explore and definitely deserves a better guide book.

Concise, filled with great information, excellently written........2002-12-24

This is for certain one of the best Lonely Planet guides I came across (and I do have a very large collection). Perhaps aided by the fact that Chile is a relatively small country, yet stretching from the tropical to the antarctic areas, and by the relative homogeneity of the country in terms of society and culture, the author and editors have done an excellent job in collecting and putting together all the best information a traveller to Chile would need. I know Chile very well, and can witness that this information is up-to-date, correct, unbiased, and altogether an indispensable tool for any traveller, providing all necessary data for the more well-off and for 'backpackers' alike. The information is concise and clear. Everything is excellently written, thus ensuring real pleasure too. The sections on politics, history and society are excellent too. Altogether, it is a great companion while travelling in Chile or dreaming of Chile.

Best of the Chile guides.......2002-03-14

When planning my trip to Chile, I bought about every Chile guide I could find, and I have about 8 or 10 of them. While none of them had "everything" this one was definately the best of them. The city maps were useful as they are in all Lonely Planet books anad its practical information helped decide where to go and how to get around. I think it gave me the most useful information of all the other guidebooks. I planned my entire trip to Chile and Easter Island from guidebooks and phone calls without any tour agency. I think I did find a couple things out of date as others did, but that is, as said another reviewer, common to all guidebooks as they are researched over a period of time, then edited & compiled, then finally released. I recommend getting this book if you plan to visit Chile and also another book for another point of view and other details. The book is not perfect, but it is probably the best out there on the subject.

a great guide.......2001-06-13

While shopping for a guidebook for my first visit to Chile, this book (the previous edition of it) looked like the most comprehensive guidebook available. It was extremely helpful for both choosing what places to visit and how to visit them. As some other reviewers noted, there were some weaknesses and omissions and some information was out of date, but the current edition of the book is likely to be more up-to-date. Anyway, if you need your whole trip laid out for you, you are probably better off joining a tour group. I found the Lonely Planet Trekking in the Patagonian Andes was a good complement to this book. I certainly wish all the information had been available in a single book, but given the amount of detail in both the Chile and Patagonian Andes books, I don't begrudge Lonely Planet too much.

Lonely Planet Chile (Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island)

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Carolyn Hubbard , Brigitte Barta , and Jeff Davis
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Chile & Easter Island: A travel survival kit (Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island)

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Chile & Easter Island: A travel survival kit (Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island)
Alan Samagalski
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Chile and Easter Island (Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island)

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Chile and Easter Island (Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island)
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Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island (Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit)

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Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island (Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit)
Wayne Bernhardson
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Lonely Planet: Cile E Isola DI Pasquale

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Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. Carefully designed to hold students' interest, the course begins in Book I with a fictional narrative about an Attic farmer's family placed in a precise historical context (432-431 B.C.). This narrative, interwoven with tales from mythology and the Persian Wars, gradually gives way in Book II to adapted passages from Thucydides, Plato, and Herodotus and ultimately to excerpts of the original Greek of Bacchylides, Thucydides, and Aristophanes' Acharnians. Essays on relevant aspects of ancient Greek culture and history are also provided. New to the Second Edition: * Short passages from Classical and New Testament Greek in virtually every chapter * The opening lines of the Iliad and the Odyssey toward the end of Book II * New vocabulary and more complete explanations of grammar, including material on accents * Many new exercises and additional opportunities for students to practice completing charts of verb forms and paradigms of nouns and adjectives * Updated Teacher's Handbooks for Books I and II containing translations of all stories, readings, and exercises; detailed suggestions for classroom presentation; abundant English derivatives; and additional linguistic information * Offered for the first time, Student Workbooks for Books I and II that include self-correcting exercises, cumulative vocabulary lists, periodic grammatical reviews, and additional readings

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As good an option as any.......2007-05-28

I've read through many of the reviews of this book and find that most of my critiques and commendations of it have already been expressed, but I think a concise (non-partisan) evaluation of it could be useful for a prospective student. I worked through both volumes of this text during a two-semester-long, 5-days-a-week "Intensive Attic Greek" class at a large Eastern University. I had two diiferent professors who taught the class, both of them well-respected classicists in their respective areas. I also own (and have extensively consulted) the texts by Anne Groton (_From Alpha to Omega_) and Donald Mastronarde (_Introduction to Attic Greek_), and so I am qualified to evaluate the _Athenaze_ series.

The main advantages of this book [as I find them] are the following:
-- The student begins to read 'Greek' from the start.
--The book is designed to be 'friendly,' and is a refreshing change from the stoic scholasticism that permeates Greek pedagogy.
--The introduction of principal parts, etc. is staged, which can ease the burden of being overwhelmed by unfamiliar verb forms. Some might think this is a disadvantage, but I found it helpful.
--The text is interspersed with small [heavily glossed] snippets of 'real' Greek: selections from Archilochus, Sappho, Theognis, etc...as well as consistent segments from the New Testament. These selections become longer and more difficult as the book progresses.
--Contrary to some reviewers' comments, _Athenaze_ DOES include reference charts for grammar paradigms. The confusion is that the first volume includes only material covered to the end of that volume, while the second includes both. This is logical. Personally, I find the format of the paradigms to be easier to follow than those in Mastronarde book, though the _Athenaze_ charts are less thorough (not covering 3rd-person imperatives, for example, or the Dual). However, some paradigms are not included, and must be hunted up in the body of the text...notably the -MI- verbs, and the forms of 'oida.' This is annoying, but purchasing a supplementary grammar (the Oxford grammar is a fine one) will solve this easily.

Now, for my critiques:
--Like all books, the text should be supplemented by a competent teacher. I tried (and failed) to teach myself Greek using this and several other texts. After attending classes for the past year, I've realised that NOTHING substitutes for the assistance of a well-trained Professor. This cannot be stressed enough. Someone can do a decent job of learning the language with this series, but unless they have exceptional fortitude and wit, will be unable to move to a 'real Greek' text, aided only by a lexica and commentary.
--The second book (compared to the first book) is disproportionately weighted with difficult grammar, introducing the Perfect System, the Subjunctive, the Optative, Aorist Passive, Future Passive, Indirect Discourse, -MI- verbs... This stuff can be tough sledding, and require far more work than concepts introduced in the first book.
--I thought the treatment of Indirect Discourse to be too brief. Even with supplementary instruction from the professor I struggled with these concepts, because the _Athenaze_ examples were too brief.
--The chapter vignettes, though meant to charming, are fairly prosaic (as must be expected when working with so limited a vocaublary). In a classroom, the tedium can be broken by poking fun at the story, but reading this on your own might be a strain. Also, the drawings that precede each chapter are terrible, but [mercifully] end by the second voume. These may seem like superficial criticims, but I challenge anyone to find a student who's used this book and not been distracted or puzzled by these oddities.

Those are the main points. Overall, _Athenaze_ is a good text, but it should really be supplemented by a teacher. I found the 'filler' material to be interesting and diverting, and the book provides many opportunites for practice reading. It seems as competent as any other available text, and provides a valuable choice for people who learn best by 'immersion.'

Ok along with other books and a good tutor.......2007-02-11

This book is good as long as you also buy Workbook I and another grammar book and have a tutor who can fix all the trick questions they ask. It is designed to not give you all the answers and force you to think (get frustrated) and then ask the teacher. If you're brilliant you can figure out some of their trick questions by looking in the back or a chapter or two ahead. There are no answers to any of the exercises, so if you're doing a self-study without a tutor good luck figuring out if you answered correctly.
If you have the time to devote to it, get Workbook I (which does have the answers)and have a tutor to help explain the answers to the trick questions, and have a complementary and better grammar book you can refer to,then this is a really good book; but by itself- nada.
Of course, you could also just buy the teacher's version and get every execise correct... :)

great book.......2007-01-10

this is a great introductory book for ancient greek. For example, having worked through Book I and half way into book II, i turned to an original greek text and suprisingly i was able to make sense of it. I reccommend that one gets the workbook component so that one can look up their answers in the answer key, as the book alone does not contain answer keys. This might seem like a problem, but once I worked my way through the Book I workbook (which has an answer key) i became confident enough with greek so that i did not need the workbook with this second book in the series. i also recommend "All the Greek Verbs" or "Tutti Verbi Greci"; this book will help with parsing verbs. Obviously memorizing the stems for each verb in each of its voices and moods would be the best, but this is an arduous task..."All the Greek Verbs" helps with those tricky verbs. My last word of advice is to MEMORIZE THE VOCABULARY!!!

Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I.......2006-11-10

A recent retiree, I've resolved to fill a void in my education and learn to read ancient Greek. I was looking for something fairly friendly, as this is not a trivial language to learn. Balme and Lawall have managed this quite well, and one is soon translating simple and charming stories and absorbing some of the culture of ancient Athens. I enjoyed Catherine Balme's excellent illustrations. I feel that if I can muddle through this, then any student can. I would find a CD illustrating correct pronunciation to be helpful; perhaps the authors will consider making one for folks using the text away from the classroom.

-Jerome Hudson

This is a great book.......2006-10-20

In a spare moment (have done my Greek for today!) I have just read my way through all the reviews of Athenaze and I feel compelled to add my voice to those who are thoroughly enjoying learning the language, reading the story of Dicaiopolis and translating the original snippets from the classical writers. As I'm only up to the Aorist, I am waiting for the grammar to get much tougher, so far it's been more of a memory exercise that conceptually difficult, time will tell. Anyway, to anyone out there who wants to learn Greek, I have found this book as useful and pleasant to use as I found Wheelock for learning Latin.

Athenaze: Introduction to Ancient Greek, vol. I

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Athenaze: Introduction to Ancient Greek, vol. I
Maurice & Gilbert Lawall Balme
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Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book 2 (Athenaze)

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Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book 2 (Athenaze)
M. G. Balme Gilbert Lawall
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Athenaze An Introduction to Ancient Greek Second Edition Teacher's Handbook I & II

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Athenaze An Introduction to Ancient Greek Second Edition Teacher's Handbook I & II
Gilbert Lawall Balme Maurice
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ATHENAZE An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Vol. 2

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ATHENAZE An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Vol. 2
Maurice & Gilbert Lawall Balme
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Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek (2 vols)

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Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek (2 vols)

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ATHENAZE: AN INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK: REVISED EDITION, BOOK II.

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ATHENAZE: AN INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK: REVISED EDITION, BOOK II.
Maurice & Gilbert Lawall. Balme
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ATHENAZE: INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK BOOK 1 2E

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ATHENAZE: INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK BOOK 1 2E
BALME/LAWALL
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Workbook II: Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2nd Ed.

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Workbook II: Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2nd Ed.
James F. Johnson, Cynthia King Gilbert Lawall
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Over 200 royalty-free designs, distinguished by their simplicity and fanciful nature, and organized according to geographical areas, depict abstract shell and heart-shaped motifs from Bengal, dancing stick figures from Maharashtra, simple geometric border patterns from Rajasthan, and much more. A perfect source of artistic inspiration.

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Useful.......2006-11-09

A decent collection of images and fair range of subjects. Not as comprehensive as A. Mookerjee's 5,000 Designs and Motifs, but not as expensive either, and the designs are usually larger than those in Mookerjee's book.

Folk and tribal designs of India: Hundreds of designs and motifs from the folk and tribal crafts of India, drawn from original sources by Kiran Malhotra ... [et. al]

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Folk and tribal designs of India: Hundreds of designs and motifs from the folk and tribal crafts of India, drawn from original sources by Kiran Malhotra ... [et. al]
Enakshi Bhavnani
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