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Australia's Largest City.......2007-08-02

The seventh edition of the Lonely Planet "Sydney - City Guide" was researched and written by Sandra Bao, with help from the author of the previous two editions Sally O'Brien. This edition was published in 2006, which means that the next edition will probably not be published until sometime in 2008 or later.

As with the other City Guides from Lonely Planet that I have used, this one appears to be comprehensive. As one would expect, it would cover the things that most travel guides cover, such as lodging, food & drink, entertainment & attractions, and shopping. The Lonely Planet guides go beyond the standard information and include sections on city life, art, architecture, and history, and sections which help the traveler plan activities with sections on walking tours, and excursions that can be taken outside of the city.

This guide, like the other Lonely Planet guides that I have used, has been very helpful in my planning for my visit. Probably the most useful section to a first time traveler is the `Directory' section, which covers a wide range of topics from transportation, family concerns, climate, customs, information for travelers which are disabled, electricity, embassies, emergencies, and so much more. If you already have a Lonely Planet guide for Australia, then this section will not be of as much use, but it is always good to have the latest copy you can because some of the information changes or is added.

I have had very good success with the Lonely Planet guides, and I have every reason to believe after reading and using this one for my planning that this one will also turn out to be quite useful. There are guides which give you more visual information on Sydney, but in terms of written content I believe this one is near the top of the list.

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More practical than inspirational: what and not why
Disappointing and inferior to Rough Guide
The only only-Wales guide? An excellent one!

Lonely Planet Wales
Abigail Hole , Etain O'Carroll , and John King
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ASIN: 174059424X

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Lose yourself in timeless rural scenery laced with glistening lakes and jagged peaks. Amble from festivals of food and opera to celebrations of art and ecology. Gorge yourself on medieval castles. Join the adrenaline junkies in a quest for the ultimate adventure. Whatever you want from Wales, this inspiring guide will help you find it.

* TAKE YOUR PICK - highlights and itineraries help you make the most of your trip to Cymru
* GET AWAY FROM IT ALL - comprehensive coverage allows you to explore Wales' untouched countryside, remote villages and little-known islands
* DISCOVER THE GREAT OUTDOORS - practical information on outdoor activities, from walking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path to scaling Snowdon
* LUXURIATE - new gastropubs and boutique country hotels revealed and reviewed, to help you escape in style
* CUT LOOSE IN CARDIFF - find the best restaurants, bars and clubs in Wales' cosmopolitan capital with our expert listings

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More practical than inspirational: what and not why.......2005-09-11

The plethora of eateries and places to stay, more than the sights, shops, and ambiance of much of Wales, permeates these pages. You get less of a sense of why to visit so many of the places rather than where to sleep and munch when you get there. This emphasis on the practical, of course, makes this an essential reference for any traveller. Yet, I would supplement it with cultural reading and research before planning a vacation, for too often too little of the reasons to go to one place rather than another are lacking in this Lonely Planet guide.

Extra credit, however, for stimulating, if too brief, introductory material at the start that places as marginalia recommended books and websites (inevitably some of the latter being puffed up as better than they actually are regarding their depth). Too often in many guides, such lists are appended rather than featured prominently. All in all, a helpful nuts-and-bolts guide to where to go and what to do, but as I mentioned, the why will be better found in other books and guides for the newcomer.

Disappointing and inferior to Rough Guide.......2004-06-13

I usually get both the Lonely Planet and Rough Guides for my trips, and generally both are good. In this case there is no comparison, and I would recommend just getting the Rough Guide. It's 585 pages compared to Lonely Planet's slim 332 and contains much more detailed information. The fourth edition of the Rough Guide (May 2003) is even less expensive! And where Lonely Planet usually wins, in color photographs and maps, the Rough Guide has at least caught up. I do like Lonely Planet's giving phone code and population for each city/town/village, but that alone doesn't make it worth carrying around!

The only only-Wales guide? An excellent one!.......2003-08-17

Lonely Planet Guides are for "advanced" travellers, but this one is usable and very fine even for those of us who aren't in that category. It also seems to be the sole "Wales only" guidebook now available, so for those who plan to travel only in Wales and want detailed information about places, history, transportation etc. it is excellent. Although these days even the un-advanced can plan a trip by websites, most of us need a guide such as this to get started, and the material here proved more reliable than that on some websites. Realistic information about travel distances and times, cautious advice on how to climb Mt. Snowdon, and background about Welsh mythology all can be found here. The guide also tries to counter the "theme park" atmosphere by including the sad history of the collapse of mining and industry.

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Confusing and boring at the same time!
Lonely Planet falls flat on a great city
Go for it
Excellent overview of the beautiful city

Lonely Planet Sydney
Sally O'Brien
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ASIN: 1741041740

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This comprehensive guide will help you explore the vibrant city of Sydney, from the fabulous shopping on Oxford St. to walking in superb bushland in the Blue Mountains.

Features: 17 full-colour maps; detailed coverage of festivals in and around Sydney; extensive advice on the full range of accommodation and dining options; information on bus, train, monorail and ferry travel; and day excursions from the city.

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Confusing and boring at the same time!.......2005-04-27

The whole idea of a guide book is to "guide" you--to tell you how to do things, where to find things and how to get there. This book does none of these things!

Instead it is a pretentious and disorganized mess that leaves one with the feeling that, while the author obviously knows Sydney well, she is far too smug and self-congratulatory to share much of this information with you!

Yes there are maps--but they omit many street names and don't match up with each other. Good luck if the location you are looking for is on a street not deemed worthy of inclusion or if your path takes you from one neighborhood to another.

The book does provide spotty information on the city's transit systems (light rail, heavy rail, buses, mono-rail and ferries) but not enough to enable one to get around easily. Plan on spending extra time getting oriented and standing in line at information booths.

As far as culture, history, nature and local color--if it doesn't have to do with drag queen reviews, liberal politics or the hippest place to eat or drink, the author doesn't seem to be much interested.

Finally, the index-or should I say indexes as there are (strangely) several different ones! You'll probably just have to memorize page numbers as I did!

I spent four days in Sydney getting more and more frustrated with this book before I dumped it and started using "Sydney: The Official Guide" which is given out free by the local tourist authority. It was much more informative and much more user-friendly!

BTW--Lonely Planets has apparently decided to get rid of those sections of its city guides on getting there, transportation, local money, culture, customs, tips, etc., (which were always the most useful parts of the books) and has replaced these with expanded listings of recommended restaurants, bars and coffee shops. I did take a few of their recommendations in Sydney--and was uniformly disappointed.

One good thing about the book-if you are awake due to jet-lag, a few pages of the ponderous prose may help you nod off!

This was the 14th Lonely Planet Guide that I have purchased over the years--and the last. This is a once-great travel series that has completely lost its way. Too bad!

Lonely Planet falls flat on a great city.......2004-10-16

Having never been to Sydney before, we stopped into a Dymock's to pick up a copy of what we thought would be the premier guidebook for Sydney, boy were we wrong! Lonely Planet should do Australia right as they are located there, but they miss the boat in this edition.

The maps were the most useful part of this book.

The index was horrible. It is split up into 4 separate indexes - which if you miss the first page and the small type at the top telling you so, you can't find anything in the index. For example - looking for the zoo - not knowing the name of it - look under "zoo" - but nothing is there. Because there are 4 "z " entries in the book. Until you find the right page of "z" only to then have you see "Taranga Zoo".

More than this, It lacks detail on almost every area. Just one example, Jenolan Caves. It tells you guided tours exist bit nothing more about them. Like which one to see if you only can see one or two or mention that fact that there are many stairs in the caves, etc. etc. So many other places are covered in the same manner. In fact they even say in the book that they don't know if something is fun or not - example: Sydney Jet - we took this tour and one like it in New Zealand.... NZ was much better of course, but our son had not been. The author comment was, " who knows if you'll actually manage to see anything in all that excitement, but it sounds like fun. " Obviously, she has not done the tour.

If you don't know your way around the area, you will find yourself constantly flipping around the book looking for information.

This book gave very few insider tips or really any useful information on the many places to eat. Since most people stay around Darling Harbor - they only chose to put in 9 places in that area!

The photos were very hokey and the good ones were very small Black & White which never shows anything well. The rest of it looked like a marketing advertisement for Sydney Tourism.

On top of all this - it was incredibly out of date for a 2004 edition. Many places had closed or prices were dramatically higher than listed. We looked for a major department store listed in the book, only to find it had changed to a MYERS years and years ago! Come on, LP!

Basically, Lonely Planet has not changed their take on guidebooks over the years and this one does not do justice to a great city.

Go for it.......2002-02-16

Invaluable, this is the kind of book you'd want even if you lived in Sydney. It explains the different character of Sydney's neighborhoods and gives concise intelligent explanations of how Sydney has become the muti-faceted city it is. I've only been to Sydney twice, but with the help of this guide I'm beginning to get it. The maps are pretty good, but some lack detail. Hotel and restaurant sections are comprehensive, and in my experience extremely accurate.

Excellent overview of the beautiful city.......2001-01-09

This is an excellent guidebook for Yanks and others who want to learn more about the Harbour City. With 4 million people, Sydney is almost too big to cover in a single volume, but the editors of this fine book do their best. The descriptions of hotels and restaurants are usefully broken down by neighborhood - and Sydney is even more diverse than most cities; the reader who is planning a trip will want to decide where he or she is going to stay before making any other decisions. The maps are superb. The city has changed almost beyond recognition in recent years, and an up-to-date guidebook is a must for the serious traveller. Highly recommended.

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Lonely Planet Wales
David Atkinson , and Neil Wilson
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ASIN: 174104538X

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Find out how a dream inspired Wales' greatest castle in Caernarfon, p.255.

Tuck into a Welsh Black beefsteak at the Bear Hotel near Abergavenny, p.130.

Go green at the Centre for Alternative Technology near Machynlleth, p.234.

Throw yourself into the Atlantic on a coasteering day out in Pembrokeshire, p.164.

Two authors, more than 1700 hours of research, 68 maps
Expanded coverage of Snowdonia for mountain lovers
Top recommendations for that special weekend away
Content updated daily: visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveller suggestions

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Unnecessary map for sydney?
uniquely handy
Disappointing

Lonely Planet Sydney City Map

Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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ASIN: 1740596404

Book Description

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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Unnecessary map for sydney?.......2007-02-09

This map is a fine map, but level of details is not better than the massive amount of free maps which is handed out at hotels in Sydney. My point is why pay for a map that you actually can get for free!

uniquely handy.......2006-04-20

I disagree with the previous reviewer. While you can certainly find all the maps provided in a tourist brochure or travel book, this brochure offers something they can't. This brochure is laminated. So, you can pull it out and toss it into your bag many times without damage. Additionally, this brochure is a nice size. Even when fully expanded it is still a manageable size. So, while you'll still look like a tourist staring at a map, you won't be a tourist with a large, unwieldy map or a big fat book.
I agree the price is a bit much. But, if you like the convenience of this format, the price tag may be worth it for you.

Disappointing.......2002-05-01

The content is not worth the price. You will get the same information from any tourist brochure for free.

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Lonely Planet Citiescape Sydney
Miriam Raphael
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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ASIN: 1741049334

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Sydney swings along with a bold, brassy, hedonistic attitude to life. Swaggeringly beautiful, charmingly kooky and intensely idiosyncratic, this is a young city as golden as the sun that sets over the harbour bridge.

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Lonely Planet New South Wales
Paul Harding , Michelle Bennett , and Andrew Draffen
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ASIN: 0864427069

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Discover superb beaches, arid outback plains, ancient Aboriginal sites and Sydney's bright lights with this definitive guide to New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

80 regional and town maps
a tippler's tour of the best wine regions in the state
notes on more than 60 national parks, including Kosciuszko and the Blue Mountains
hundreds of places to stay, from camp sites and hotels to country B&Bs
action attractions: cycling, bushwalking, climbing, surfing and swimming

Drovers' Roads of Wales (Lonely Planet Walking Guides S.)

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Drovers' Roads of Wales (Lonely Planet Walking Guides S.)
Shirley Toulson , and Fay Godwin
Manufacturer: Whittet Books Ltd
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ASIN: 0905483537

The Lakes of North Wales (Lonely Planet Walking Guides S.)

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The Lakes of North Wales (Lonely Planet Walking Guides S.)
Jonah Jones
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Lonely Planet 2002 Out to Eat Melbourne (Lonely Planet Out to Eat)

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Lonely Planet 2002 Out to Eat Melbourne (Lonely Planet Out to Eat)
Matt Pirrie
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We've scoured Melbourne for its culinary quintessentials.

"Delicious photography, detailed information & informed objectvity."
- Australian Table Magazine

*written for locals by locals
*restaurants, cafes and bars to satisfy all tastes and occasions
*arranged by area with easy-to-use maps
*quick-flick indexes to find the perfect place fast

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In Search Of More Work Like This.......2004-02-11

Ask a classroom teacher what he or she thinks about educational research, and there's a fair chance you'll hear, "It's fine, but it does little to help me deal with real classroom instructional issues." In fact, that would've been my response until I read Bruce VanSledright's "In Search Of America's Past." Not only has this book challenged the way I look at research on teaching and learning, but also it has impacted how I see the discipline that I teach (history) and the ways that my students can conceptualize and work within that discipline.

Through "In Search Of America's Past," VanSledright escorts the reader through his quest, as both classroom teacher and researcher, to change what a group of fifth-grade students think about history from "just a bunch of facts" to an investigative process by which interpretations are built on documentary evidence. After several chapters, it becomes obvious to the reader that the author is an experienced classroom teacher and researcher who effectively balances both roles and understands how to communicate his findings and ideas to educators at the K-12 and university levels. He empathizes with teachers who try to make their content meaningful to students in the face of watered-down, high-stakes tests. He offers suggestions for modeling and reinforcing good historical investigation strategies with students. And he is both realistic and responsible in discussing his expectations for deep analysis in the history classroom and the purposes of such analysis.

Many middle- and high-school teachers will see the subtitle, "Learning To Read History In Elementary School," and consider passing up this volume. As an eleventh-grade history teacher, I can assure you that doing so would be a huge mistake. While VanSledright notes that his efforts with fifth-graders were "met with some conditional success" (p. 134), he establishes that elementary students are capable of demonstrating basic competencies in dealing with historical ambiguity and biased or conflicting evidence. Just think of what a high school student could do with proper instruction! As well, he discusses issues that are important to social studies teachers and scholars across the board, from critical evaluations of "typical" social studies textbooks to the struggles involved with trying to change student's perceptions of what history is and why they should learn it.

Admittedly, VanSledright's teaching context is as unique as yours or mine, and therefore, his book should not be read as The Solution to all things ailing social studies teachers and teaching. But it is strong in documenting innovative methods and key questions about teaching and learning for social studies teachers to consider, and it provides a forum for bridging existing research on history teaching with classroom practice. Kids are thoughtful inquirers, not living encyclopedias, and Bruce VanSledright shows us that. Can our students construct their own informed interpretations of history and articulate their positions? They can if we show them how to do it. I'm in search of more work like this.

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In Search of America's Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School
Bruce Vansledright
Manufacturer: Teachers College Pr
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ASIN: B000NUUFHU

Book Description

A View of Early Typography has long been regarded as the classic text on the production and use of type in the first 150 years of printing. By focusing on type, Harry Carter goes to the heart of design, the point at which the material processes of printing meet the intellectual concerns of publishers and the nature of the texts they publish. Among the topics covered: the diversity of letterforms (blackletter, roman, italic, and more); the tensions between Latin and the vernacular languages; and the establishment of standards of norms in type design. This is a facsimile of the original edition, of 1969, augmented by a new introduction in which James Mosley explains the significance of the book and gives a short account of Carter's life and work.

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Still a Classic.......2006-11-23

I first read this book thirty years ago, which I found invaluable as a student. Having just purchased and re-read the book I have to say that it is still a classic, a must for any serious student/reader of typography. The publisher has also done a good job with the reproductions of the type specimens at the rear of the book.

Glad to see this classic back in print.......2003-07-18

I came across the original edition of this fine book in the Cal Poly SLO library while doing other research, and knew I had to have it, so I got a used copy through abebooks.com. If you're anywhere nearly as obsessed with typography as I am, then you'll be happy to hear it's back in print again.

The text is very good (and much more scholarly than, say, Jan Tschichold's treatement of the field), but what makes the book truly magnificent are the beautiful specimen sheets. You'll find all the usual ones, including Gutenberg's bibles, Conrad Berner's classic Garamond sheet, and Bembo's De Aetna, but also some rare and illuminating ones, such as the Le Be that graces the cover of this reprint. Assuming Princeton Architectural Press hasn't to screw up the reproductions, you'll find this edition to be one of the most prized in your typography collection.

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A VIEW Of EARLY TYPOGRAPHY Up To About 1600. The Lyell Lectures 1968.
Harry. Carter
Manufacturer: At the Clarendon Press,
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MZ9414

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