Bats of the British Isles (Shire Natural History)

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A timeless city built by saints and emperors, Rome's grandeur awes and inspires. Be conquered by the greatness of the Pantheon, St Peter's or the Roman Forum, discover seemingly forgotten frescoes and ancient mosaics or amble through sun-drenched piazzas and indulge yourself at Rome's best gelaterie. Choose your own Roman adventure with this stylish guide by our resident author.

o FULL-COLOUR MAPS - make navigating the cobbled alleys and remote quarters of Rome easy
o ART & ARCHITECTURE - the lowdown on the most notable monuments and hidden galleries
o BEST DAY TRIPS - all the practical information you need to explore beyond the centre
o DISCERNING REVIEWS - from designer restaurants to family-run trattorias, we'll take you to the best of this gastronomic heartland

Customer Reviews:

Missing too many key and useful details.......2007-09-17

Credit where it's due: the guide did cover the basics.

What it missed was most of the wisdom for seeing the city efficiently obtained in even a single visit. Some examples:
- Italian restaurant customs are vastly different from American customs. For example you seat yourself and must ask for anything you want (to order, a drink refill, the check, etc.) - it's just their way of doing things. None of this was mentioned.
- The best times to beat crowds and lines. I went several places at the suggested times and hit long lines, then exited a couple hours later to see almost no line at all...
- Organized tours get different lines to see historical attractions (Vatican, Colosseum, etc.) than the general public. Many of these tours are a cheap way to cut through the wait even if you don't want the tour. I figured out that paying 5-10 euros for a tour can almost completely avoid a 1-2 hour wait; I just handed my pass to the guide and said "no thanks" after getting through the entrance.

This guide saved us in Rome!.......2007-08-13

This book saved my husband and me in Rome earlier this year. The friends we were traveling with had purchased the Lonely Planet Italy guidebook but it did not have nearly enough information to get us around Rome. This guide provided excellent walking tours and information on the major sites in Rome. Its multiple maps of many parts of the city made navigating the often twisty streets of the city more managegable. Definately a must for any first time traveler to Rome!

old stalwart.......2007-07-19

Lonely Planet is great for inexhaustible lists of information that you cannot possibly go through, like hotel listings, restaurants, nightlife, plus some interesting background info on history, culture, politics, and the like.

I just got back from a week's vacation in Rome and I found that Lonely Planet was really useful for finding my way around the city (pretty decent maps) and finding lodging and local phone numbers. As for actually exploring places of interest, I found Rick Steves' Rome much more detailed and fun to follow.

Excellent all-round guide to visiting Rome.......2007-01-09

I just (January 2007) spent six days with this guide as my constant companion on a holiday in Rome. I also saw many other people carrying this book around with them - so it seems it is a popular choice! I would say this book was an essential part of the success of my trip.

* Walking around central Rome I noticed that every other person seemed to be carrying some sort of map! The maps in the guide are clear enough for navigation in the city - once you understand their limits. For example, not every street is shown and/or labelled, but in the centre of the city you're never all that far away from a street that _is_ shown. Once I got the hang of the rather chaotic way the streets work, I felt comfortable with wandering around for a while and then finding my place on the map. But if (like me) you had booked a room in a hotel well outside the city centre, you will want to get a proper map of Rome and/or take a printout of the area from Google Maps - I did both. But in the city centre it's much easier to have the guide open to the map pages than to use a large folding map.

* In the shopping section there is a strong (but certainly not exclusive) emphasis on clothes/fashion/design. There's no doubt that this correctly reflects the vast number of such shops in Rome. Nevertheless, that is not my sort of thing and I would have liked more coverage of other types of store.

* The walking tour section is excellent. I did two of the walks pretty much as per the directions and found them very enjoyable. Be aware though that if you want to go in to the places on the tour you need to check opening times - for example, I started the Trastevere tour at about 10:30 and by the time I got to the second half of the tour most of the places were closed. Well, that was my fault - the book gives opening times for the places mentioned on the tours.

* Every place mentioned has specific directions on how to use public transport (metro and/or bus) to get there from Termini station - these directions were invaluable and I relied on them many times.

A must for a Rome vacation.......2006-11-03

Excellent book.
Very helpful while planning a vacation & during.

Lonely Planet Best of Rome (Lonely Planet Encounter Series)

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Lonely Planet Best of Rome (Lonely Planet Encounter Series)
Abigail Hole
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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ASIN: 1740597362

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Contemporary Rome more than stands up to its past. In Best of Rome, our resident author reveals a city bubbling over with festivals, food markets, street parties, open-air opera, jazz, hip hop and salsa clubs, all making use of the city's unfeasibly beautiful setting. As the saying goes, 'Roma, non basta una vita' (for Rome, a lifetime is not enough).

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great map

Lonely Planet Rome City Map

Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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ASIN: 1740597214

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Lonely Planet's city maps present the travelers' city in one easy view

• Complete street and sight index makes navigating the city a breeze for walkers and drivers alike

• All new, improved mapping styles and fully updated

• Sturdy, laminated, easy-fold format

• Quick-find highlights and reviews of the top city sights

• Includes up-to-date transit maps and essential practical information

• Full color throughout with gorgeous photographs

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great map.......2007-01-16

Very useful and up to date. Includes some of the lesser streets not shown on other maps.

Lonely Planet Mejor Roma (Spanish) 1 (Lonely Planet Best Of Rome)

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Lonely Planet Mejor Roma (Spanish) 1 (Lonely Planet Best Of Rome)
Martin Hughes
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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Lonely Planet Lo Mejor De Paris (Lo Mejor De Paris/the Best of Paris (Spanish))

ASIN: 8408050664

Lonely Planet Rome: Condensed (Lonely Planet Rome Condensed)

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Great pocket map

Lonely Planet Rome: Condensed (Lonely Planet Rome Condensed)
Martin Hughes , and Sally Webb
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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ASIN: 1741041503

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This informative and savvy guide captures the best that Rome offers in a practical, easy to use format. With opinionated reviews, essential travel tips and detailed fold-out maps, Rome Condensed has all the information the discerning visitor needs - for a day or a week, for business or for pleasure.

shows how to order a caffè macchiato with confidence and mangiare bene in the best cafes and restaurants
helps you navigate the way from the Spanish Steps to the Vatican like a Roman
reviews only the coolest places to experience la dolce vita
shopping secrets shared from to-die-for big names to tell-your-friends bargains

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Great pocket map.......2006-01-05

I got this book mainly to have a quick guide to the city. Not one of those huge books with all the details. The trip that I'm planning is only a couple of days so this is the guide book for me.

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Lonely Planet Rome
Duncan Garwood , and Abigail Hole
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ASIN: 1741046599

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One of the worst travel books I have ever read
Just sad. Poorly organized, boring, incompetent.
poorly organised and outdated
Rome, the dream city
Poorly Organized, not very helpful

Lonely Planet Rome (1st ed)
Helen Gillman
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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ASIN: 0864426267

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Whether you're chasing Caravaggio or the ultimate gran caff, ancient sites or the latest fashions, this book is the comprehensive guide to Rome for the millennium and beyond.

Features: detailed colour maps; listings of places to eat and drink, from bars and trattorie to 5-star restaurants; accommodation options to suit all budgets, covering pensioni, hotels, and religious institutions; tips on doing business, public transport and shopping; excursions to Ostia Antica and other destinations in Lazio

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One of the worst travel books I have ever read.......2006-11-17

They left out a lot of history and a lot of landmarks in favor of "gee whiz" and cheap, nasty eateries. The hotel reviews were worthless as well. I would not recommend this as a travel book unless you are going the el-cheapo backpacker route. Even then, I'd say look for something else: perhaps the "Let's Go" for Rome would have been better. My main criticism of Lonely Planet is that it concentrates on the low-cost and the low-brow. This one failed at proper low-cost education, and didn't provide anything to make up for it. The maps were crummy as well.

I mean, it's Rome. Granted, Rome is huge and wonderful, but I could have written a better book based on a few week visit.

Just sad. Poorly organized, boring, incompetent........2004-02-22

For some reason, Lonely Planet just cannot win with any Italian destination. Tuscany, Venice, and now Rome - all just plain bad. The book is more or less unusable: the good photo of the cover is probably the best thing of the guide. The rest is worthless waste of paper: "deep thoughts" and irrelevant ticket and accommodation advice (should be called "How To Pay More For Everything"), recycled and reused from all other LP guides, a fair bit of pinko rhetoric coupled with tired, uninspired and amateurish writing about the very things that make Rome enchanting. I do not know any other guide which would be just so hopelessly incompetent about sightseeing information as Lonely Planet. This is a triumph of cheap "been-here-done-that" backpacker, the swan song of the great unwashed.

Other guides are like well-informed friends that tell you about all the breathtaking sights of the most beautiful cities in the world. This one would be just a grumpy old malodorous fella who volunteers to spend his time with you: you've heard all his stories and he is a prejudiced and annoying smelly bore, but he'll spend time with you as long as you keep buying him drinks.

poorly organised and outdated.......2002-08-20

This book has major flaws as a guidebook. It is relatively rich in informaiton and interesting as a read if you want to know about Rome and useful if it is used as a referrence alongside other guidebook (which is what we did in the end), but if you want to walk around the city with this book in hand, you can hardly find what you want to see and figure out where you are and what it is in front of you.

Because in places like Rome you have all sorts of historic things lying about all over, you need one, a useful guide how you can go about without missing "must sees" (model course with good map and good instructions), two, a clue/instruction how to recognise something important and not to go past it without realising what it is - many ruins and churches look similar if you don't know them (again good map that can be easily referred back to entries of the text), and three, you want to know what it is when you came across something interesting while roaming around the city. This book was no help in any case. Imagine - if you come across something interesting which has no tags saying what it is, which is often the case in Rome, especially where there are so many ruins in proximity, you have to determine either from your location (good map is needed) or marker (what is near-by). Neither of them is provided in the guidebook. Everytime we came across a church or ruins that looked interesting (some of them really famous), we had to spend quite a long time trying to figure out where we were and what it was, sometimes in vain (maps unclear and complicated, the text just listed items with no indication where are they, how to find them etc.) Later we realised that we had missed out some of the must-sees even though we visited places nearby because there are no clue on what we can see if we are in a particular place and the maps were quite useless. Also, in some occasions we actually saw a wrong thing believing it was what we wanted to see, to be later surprised to come across the real thing (again poor map and lack of a marker and proper guide) or just passed across something without realising what it was.

We also found some of the information on restaurants were outdated. Once we entered this highly recommended restaurant, which was flooded with tourists and food was really bad (I had very very dry, hard steak - I could not believe it, as although I am not a big meat eater, I find meat dishes in Italy usually wonderful). The service was pretty bad too (sort of "be greatful we are feeding you" attitude). When we asked for a bill the server (I think he was owner as well) dared to say that "Service cahrge is not included", demanding for tips. We left without paying any tip, greatly regretting we missed one precious meal in Rome and relearning a great lesson - if there are a lot of tourists and no locals, just walk away.

Having said this, with more thoughts into how to make things more clear, I think it can be turned into a good guidebook. Improved quality of the maps (and probably more maps to highlight important areas), which can be easily referred back to the text and vice versa, and reworking structure of the text and giving more instructions/markers where and how to find monuments will be absolutely necessary. But if you're looking for a propper guidebook to take you through Rome, you better wait for a revised edition or get something else.

Rome, the dream city.......2002-04-15

I have just come home after a week in Rome. Travelled there with a backpack filled with travel books and novels about Rome. I do travel alot, and usually the Lonely Planet guides have been very helpful. But this one was not. At least not helpful to take with me when I walked around. The book has alot of information, but it is hard to find the information when you need it, the text is usually quite boring, the maps are of very little use, and the book all in all looks dull.
There is one exeption though, the boxed texts can sometimes be very useful and even written with some charm. The first day I was in Rome LP's Rome followed me in my backpack, but in the evening I took it out - it was of no use when I wandered around, and I had several books so much more interesting and helpful.

I really hope the next edition of the book will be better, knowing other LP books I will give it another chance.

Britt Arnhild Lindland

Poorly Organized, not very helpful.......2001-12-08

This is one of the worst travel guides that I have ever used. It is very poorly organized...I found it confusing to use. It contains a lot of information if read cover to cover but, for example, when used at a site such as the Vatican, it was useless as a guide. When I needed it to help me find a very popular spot in Vatican City, it was of no help. I only had a few days in Rome and I wanted information on which sites were "must sees". it was of no help here, either. Save your money and get a better guide like the Insight guide or Let's go.

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Rome (Lonely Planet Best of ...)
Martin Hughes
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ASIN: 1741044480

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Rome
Guide Lonely Planet
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ASIN: 2840702177

Rome City Guide Pack (Lonely Planet City Guides)

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Rome City Guide Pack (Lonely Planet City Guides)

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ASIN: 174104653X

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Evocative illustrations by Eric Thomas reflect the rhythm of the seasons and their accompanying tasks, from plowing and sowing to harvesting and haymaking, while Angela Wilkes's finely crafted text details the changing nature of life on a farm.

Message Through Time: The Photographs of Emma d Sewall, 1836-1919

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Wow; incredible!

Message Through Time: The Photographs of Emma d Sewall, 1836-1919
Abbie Sewall
Manufacturer: Tilbury House Pub
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Binding: Hardcover

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Wow; incredible!.......2007-08-31

This is an incredible book. Tremendous photographs documenting old-Maine. And as well terribly interesting text from the artist's granddaughter. The photographer was the wife of a vice-presidential candidate and yet virtually nothing is known of her life. The commentary and deductions are really interesting and moving. Highly recommended. I really enjoyed reading and studying this. I really appreciate Ms Sewall's efforts in saving and disseminating these photos!

Experience of part-time farming and production specialization through joint-action between farmers,

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Experience of part-time farming and production specialization through joint-action between farmers,
P Hackman
Manufacturer: Centre international de recherches sur les communautés coopératives rurales
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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A Farm Through Time (Ch.Thr.Hist.)
ANON
Manufacturer: Hodder Children's Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0750206314

Silhouettes of a lifetime: Living my life a second time: through memoirs

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Silhouettes of a lifetime: Living my life a second time: through memoirs
Flora Elizabeth Donley
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Add nautical charm to almost any graphic project. Over 420 vintage views of paddle wheelers, sailors, fish and shellfish, sailing vessels, deep-sea divers, ocean liners, harbors, swimmers, lifeboats, rowboats, propellers, many other images. Royalty-free illustrations reproduce extremely well. Indispensable resource for graphic artists.

Ready to Use Nautical and Seashore Illustrations (Clip Art)

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Ready to Use Nautical and Seashore Illustrations (Clip Art)
Tom Tierney
Manufacturer: Dover Pubns
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Ready-to-Use Nautical Illustrations (Clip Art Series)

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Ready-to-Use Nautical Illustrations (Clip Art Series)
Tom Tierney
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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65 copyright-free illustrations—each in 3 sizes—depict lovely mermaids, seafood restaurants, waterfront dining, a shipboard party, fishermen, water-skiers, swimmers, sailboats, lighthouses, shells, and scores of other nautical motifs. Crisply rendered images for commercial artists and designers in need of immediately usable graphics.

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