Books : Azerbaijan With Georgia (Trailblazer)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.75404
EAN: 9781873756331
ISBN: 187375633X
Label: Trailblazer Publications
Manufacturer: Trailblazer Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 317
Publication Date: 1999-08
Publisher: Trailblazer Publications
Sales Rank: 3685062
Studio: Trailblazer Publications
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The first English guide to this fascinating country, formerly part of the Soviet Union. This book helps the traveler with the practical details of visiting Azerbaijan while also discussing its history and geography. It has been little traveled in the past due to lack of information beyond the metropolitan capital of Baku. The guide fills those information gaps with practical advice for travelers, as well as facts regarding visas, lodging, eating and more. The guide uses author Mark Elliott's hand drawn, detailed maps of the surroundings with pointed comments on each. The entire country is covered, with its desert moonscapes, tropical forests, volcanoes and snow-capped mountains and its history steeped in myth and magic. Azerbaijan's equally neglected neighbor, Georgia, is outlined in this guide as well.
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This book was very helpful while I was in Azerbaijan but some things desperately need to be updated. I only spent a couple weekends in Baku but the streets are changing all the time. We were unable to find three of the Chinese food restaurants and the one we finally did eat at wasn't listed. The snippets on the towns in the outlying regions could definitely be added to as well. All in all it still is the best guide on the market.
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As other reviewers have noted, the hallmark of this book is that we frequently met Azeri travellers either armed with it or knowledgable about it. Some mentioned, and we agreed, an update is needed regards restaurants and hotels in Baku which come and go with disturbing frequency. But, really, the humour of the writing, and the lovely drawings, make this a special treat. We did encounter a writer updating the notorious Lonely Planet Guide, in Polish only though. Elliott gives the impression of having walked everywhere he describes. It is worth warning that, though English is on the increase in Baku, and regional centres especially with young people, Turkish in the south and Russian in the north are the more widespread second languages. And, taxi drivers, given the just mentioned language issues, are a very great challenge especially in Baku. Really they are the only negative I have about the place. Beyond Quba and heading into the high country is stupendous, even if you are not a hiker.Xinaliq is an amazing village, and there is now a shop, the road to it is bitumenized, and as I write a new consolidated school should be open for business. The teachers there can help with English. I also rate Zaqatala higher than the author. Coming across from Georgia's poverty-stricken villages, this immaculate town was astonishingly ordered and cared for. But in this regard, it was to prove exceptional in Azerbaijan. Lahic was lovely, as was Ilisu; Shaki less so, though we wished we'd booked ... Read More
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Great book! Clearly written by someone who loves this country. My wife is a native of Baku learnt and laughed about her native country. Culturally savy and sensitive.
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This book can be of a great use for the travellers, expatriots moving to Azerbaijan or for those studying different regions/cultures. I enjoyed reading it!
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If you're going to Azerbaijan you must have this book - in fact, several companies issue this book to their international staff here. It is extremely comprehensive and thorough and very accurate (though there have been some changes). As someone that has lived in Azerbaijan for the past year and a half, I continue to be impressed with this book and have relied on it many times. It is an essential guide to exploring Azerbaijan - a country that has a lot more to offer than most would expect. Buy this (and avoid the Lonely Planet one - it does a really bad job for Azerbaijan!).
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