Exploring Cuba

By Fred Mawer, Fodor's Travel Publications Inc., Fodor's

Fodor's Exploring Guides are the most up-to-date, full-color guidebooks available. Covering destinations around the world, these guides are loaded with photos, essays on culture and history, descriptions of sights, and practical information. Full-color photos make this a great guide to buy if you're still planning your itinerary (let the photos help you choose ) and it's a perfect companion to a general guidebook, like a Fodor's Gold Guide. All the great sights plus the history and anecdotes that bring them to life - Extraordinary coverage of history and culture - Itineraries, walks and excursions, on and off the beaten path - Architecture and art Practical tips and full-color maps and photos - Getting there and getting around - When to go and what to pack - Quick tips on where to sleep in every price range - Savvy restaurant picks for all budgets Praise for Fodor's Exploring Guides "Most travel guides are either beautiful or practical. This one is both." -- New York Daily News "Beautiful...and the depth of text is impressive." -- San Diego Union Tribune "Authoritatively written and superbly presented...worthy reading before, during, or after a trip." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "Concise, comprehensive, and colorful." -- Washington Post "Absolutely gorgeous. Fun, colorful, and sophisticated." -- Chicago Tribune

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679002685
• ISBN13: 9780679002680
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Not bad

This book was very interesting and well written, the pictures are good but limited in size and number. The overall book is good but I have read better, this one is good, but I need more than this book to take me to Cuba for a visit, so there are other books beside this one, but this one is very good on some categories

What to see, where to stay, where to eat

Every year more and more Americans are visiting Cuba for family, tourist, business, and humanitarian purposes. Fodor's Exploring Cuba is an ideal guide to this island nation and offers a wealth of practical, up-to-date, reliable information on what to see, where to stay, where to eat, and all the basics of getting there, getting around, when to go, and what to pack. Concise, wonderfully illustrated throughout, completely "user friendly", Fodor's Exploring Cuba is an essential, highly recommended tour guide for anyone planning a trip to Cuba.

Excellent guide in all respects

Fodor's has done a wonderful job with Cuba. In particular, the author, Mawer, is a terrific writer and his lucid, precise language is a treat after reading the much touted "Cuba Handbook," which I found far too wordy and unorganized. While others say that "Cuba Handbook" has an essential guide to Cuban politics and history, I say that Mawer does the same thing but with prose that is far more readable and intriguing. His opinion of the politics is very much what I experienced -- a mixture of both good and the bad. I agree with all of his recommendations and touts. While I visited more attractions than he describes in the book, I concur with Mawer's decisions on what is worthwile (i.e., many of the attractions that I read about in other books and visited were not worth my attention).