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Bradt Travel Guide |
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This
Bradt guide includes comprehensive practical and background information.
Whether you yearn for the cultural attractions of Zagreb, Split
and Dubrovnik (Byron’s ‘Pearl of the Adriatic’),
prefer to explore the many national parks and nature reserves, wish
to indulge a passion for Roman ruins and Venetian treasures, or
simply soak up the sun, this is the ideal visitors’ companion.
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This Bradt guide
includes comprehensive practical and background information. Whether
you yearn for the cultural attractions of Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik
(Byron’s ‘Pearl of the Adriatic’), prefer to explore
the many national parks and nature reserves, wish to indulge a passion
for Roman ruins and Venetian treasures, or simply soak up the sun,
this is the ideal visitors’ companion.
- Detailed
background to the country's rich culture and history
- The best
of the islands, including Krk, Cres, Losinj, Rab, Brac, Hvar,
Korcula and Mljet
- The only
guide to cover all the national parks and nature reserves
- Hiking,
sailing and other activities
- Full information
on where to eat, drink and stay
About this Guide
Author: Piers Letcher
304 pages · 8 colour photos · 51 maps |
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THE
BRADT STORY
The first Bradt travel guide was written by Hilary and George Bradt
in 1974 on a river barge floating down a tributary of the Amazon
in Bolivia. From their base in Boston, Massachusetts, they went
on to write and publish four other backpacking guides to the Americas
and one to Africa.
In
the 1980s Hilary continued to develop the Bradt list in England,
and also established herself as a travel writer and tour leader.
The company's publishing emphasis evolved towards broader-based
guides to new destinations - usually the first to be published on
those countries - complemented by hiking, rail and wild life guides.
Since
winning The Sunday Times Small Publisher of the year Award in 1997,
we have continued to fill the demand for detailed, well-written
guides to unusual destinations, while maintaining the company's
original ethos of low-impact travel.
Travel
guides are by their nature continuously evolving. If you experience
anything which you would like to share with us, or if you have any
amendments to make to this guide, please write; all your letters
are read and passed on to the author. Most importantly, do remember
to travel with an open mind and to respect the customs of your hosts
- it will add immeasurably to your enjoyment.
Happy
traveling!
Hilary
Bradt
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About
author
Born and educated
in the UK, Piers Letcher has lived in France since 1984. As an independent
writer and photographer he has published 13 books, more than a thousand
newspaper and magazine articles and hundreds of photographs. He
spent most of 1988 researching and writing Yugoslavia: Mountain
Walks and Historical Sites, which was published by Bradt Travel
Guides in 1989. From the mid-nineties he spent several years as
a speechwriter at the United Nations in Geneva, before once again
taking to the road, in 2002, write Croatia: The Bradt Travel Guide,
his sixth travel book.
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Author's
Note
I've had a love affair with Croatia for 20 years, ever since
I first inter railed round Europe in 1982 and got stranded in Split
for four days, waiting for someone to show up who never showed.
It wasn't difficult to find my way out to the islands of Brac and
Hvar, and from there to Korcula and on to Dubrovnik, by which time
I was off the inter-rail map, and into a different place altogether.
Three years later
I got diverted in Trieste and ended up in Pula instead of Athens,
and worked my way down the coast as far as Split again, stopping in
at Rab, and then for a week at the lovely Paklenica National Park
(still a Croatian favorite). To get back to where I was going I went
up through the country to Zagreb, and saw the Plitvice Lakes for the
first time. I traveled inland, and visited the pretty baroque town
of Vukovar, thenwandered up through Osijek into Hungary.
It wasn't
long before I was hammering at Bradt's door and clamoring to write
about (what was then) Yugoslavia. The book came out in 1989, just
in time to be washed away by the war - I spent 1991 glued to the television
set, watching in horror as Vukovar fell and Dubrovnik was shelled,
and had to wait a decade for my second chance.
So here
it is - what I hope is the most useful guide to the country (and
the only one which goes to all the national parks and nature reserves,
and one which finally consummates my long-standing love affair.
Piers Letcher
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