Goa Handbook (Footprint Handbooks Series) - Hardcover

Bradnock, Robert; Bradnock, Roma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 084424807X ISBN 13: 9780844248073

Publisher: Ntc Pub Group, 1998

Synopsis

Footprint's fully revised third edition of the Goa Handbook covers in detail all that is offered in this popular, relaxing destination. Whether opting for the slow lane on one of the many beaches or looking for the hustle and bustle of an outdoor market, the traveler will find the essentials and more to get the best out of the visit. Useful to the first-time traveler to India with information on how to get there, where to stay, and what to do on a budget; or for the traveler looking to explore neighboring Karnataka and Maharashta, including Mumbai, the gateway to India. Ranging from the practical, like up-to-date information on shopping and dining, to the intellectual, such as background on the region's Portuguese cultural heritage, the information in the Goa Handbook is the best guidebook for the adventurous traveler looking to leave the beaten path. Footprint travel guides are synonymous with discovery and adventure — their purpose is to convey the very essence of a destination and to feel its pulse. Eye-opening, accurate, and reliable information is given in each guide, ensuring that every trip is memorable, enlightening, and informing. Footprint's guidebooks are the future of travel, stressing a sensitivity to local issues.

About this title

From the Publisher

Dear Fellow Traveller

Thank you for checking out the Goa Handbook. Footprint are an independent British publisher (based in Bath). We specialise in providing travellers with guide books that are second to none in terms of accuracy, recency and especially coverage. You will find that most of our guides are simply the most comprehensive available with in-depth information on history, culture and customs as well as practical travel information. Our major titles are updated ANNUALLY to ensure you have the best information to hand. If there are no reviews for this particular title we recommend you check out the reader reviews on the Peru and South American Handbooks which give a good flavour of how useful our guides are. You might like to know that we also publish an India Handbook and an extremely useful general guide to travelling: The Traveller's Handbook. Finally, whichever guide book you choose, we would like to wish you an exciting, illuminating and above all enjoyable trip! Best wishes Footprint

About the Author

Robert Bradnock is an international authority on India. He was born in India in 1943 and went back overland in 1966 as a research student at Cambridge to live in South India for a year. That journey was the first of many visits living and working throughout the sub-continent. He is a senior lecturer at the University of London's world famous School of Oriental and African Studies. Roma Das Bradnock, a Bengali by birth, was brough up in Calcutta where she graduated in English. Roma's Hindi and Bengali and Robert's basic Tamil see them through even remote corners comfortably.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ntc Pub Group
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084424807X
• ISBN 13: 9780844248073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288