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The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia - 3rd Edition
by: Jeremy Atiyah, Stephen Backshall, Russell Briggs

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 915.90454
EAN: 9781843534372
ISBN: 1843534371
Label: Rough Guides Ltd
Manufacturer: Rough Guides Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1256
Publication Date: August 25, 2005
Publisher: Rough Guides Ltd
Studio: Rough Guides Ltd
Sales Rank: 26586

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Very Useful for those travelling to Southeast Asia
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.



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Beware - Incomplete Coverage!
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.
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