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Belarus (Bradt Travel Guide)

Belarus (Bradt Travel Guide)
By Nigel Roberts

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Belarus remains the most inaccessible, unknown and misunderstood country in Europe. This new guide – the first to focus on the Republic of Belarus – therefore offers a rare opportunity to study a country and its people as they really are, before the rest of the world catches on.
Anyone with an interest in history and sociology will be fascinated by the continuation of traditional rural pastimes and industries where a horse and cart is still in use. There are also vast areas of marshes, lakes and rivers, which are of particular appeal to ecologists and environmentalists.
Slav and Belarussian cultural monuments, churches, monasteries and castles dating back to the Middle Ages, are explored in detail.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #431169 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-08-13
  • Format: Illustrated
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 304 pages

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About the Author

Nigel Roberts is heavily involved with local communities on sustainable development projects. He has travelled extensively throughout western and eastern Europe and speaks Russian.

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A One and Only Guide4
Bradt publishes excellent guides to places off-the-beaten track. In Europe, there is likely no destination as unlikely as Belarus. And there is no other comprehensive guide to the country (Lonely Planet and Rough Guides give it little or no attention). For the curious, Belarus offers much, although getting in is expensive and extremely bureaucratic, due to the off-putting visa regime and requirements for advance hotel reservations and health insurance. Once inside though, the people are warm, the costs are low, and the country is a post-Soviet Soviet style wonderland. This Bradt guide covers trip planning in great detail, and provides info about Minsk and the country's largest cities that you simply won't find anywhere else in English.

My only gripe is that the print is much too small, the maps a bit hard to read, and editing is at times sloppy (the word "indeed" seems to appear in every other paragraph). Perhaps these problems can be fixed in a second edition. It's simply wonderful there is a guide for Belarus now in English and easily available.