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| The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia - 3rd Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Various
Publisher: Rough Guides Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 93163
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 1843534371
Dewey Decimal Number: 915.90454
EAN: 9781843534372
ASIN: 1843534371
Publication Date: August 25, 2005
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 Very Useful for those travelling to Southeast Asia October 23, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you are planning to go to Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and/or Vietnam, this is the perfect guide. It is well desiged, with lots of detailed information for each place. It includes a section on the basic information for all the areas, and then goes into detail for each country. The bigger countries are devoted much more space, but there is a fair amount of information about the smaller countries too. I think it is a very useful copy to have if you are going to the region.
 Beware - Incomplete Coverage! July 17, 2006
16 out of 25 found this review helpful
Despite the title, this book doesn't cover all of Southeast Asia!
Two of the region's 11 countries are completely missing. These are Burma/Myanmar, which seems to be omitted for political correctness, and Asia's youngest country, East Timor, omitted simply out of ignorance - the publisher's policy appearently being that if few people go there, why bother with including it?
Also conspiciously missing from the book is the entire eastern half of Indonesia, the largest country in SEA: Papua, Maluku and West Timor. These are some of the region's most exotic and interesting places, with Asia's most extensive virgin rainforests and best preserved traditional cultures, so leaving them out just like this is a real shame.
So even if you are normally a Rough Guides fan (and I know many of their books are good), unless you are determined to stick to the well beaten tourist-tracks in places like Thailand and Malaysia, give this book a miss and go for Lonely Planet, which, while also far from perfect, at least does cover all of SEA!
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