Book Description
You'll never feel intimidated and awkward about the customs and etiquette of another country again. With the insights provided in this CULTURE SHOCK! Guide, you'll learn to see beyond the stereotypes and misinformation that often precede a visit to a foreign land. Whether you plan to stay for a week or for a year, you'll benefit from such topics as understanding...

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From Library Journal
Coauthored by a writer of Ukrainian ancestry and another of Ukrainian nativity, this unusual combination of language instruction, sightseeing guide, and travel survival kit works by keeping it simple. Useful to all visitors, especially those visiting family.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Amazon.com
From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there, chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travelers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most jaded globetrotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks ...

From Library Journal
"This whole terrible world is upside down," exiled Polish poet Zofia Bronska Ilinska tells English author Marsden (The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians, LJ 4/15/95) as they revisit the Eastern Europe of her childhood. Published in Britain in 1996, this work combines an account of 1990s Belarus, based on Marsden's travels with Ilinska, with an in...

From Publishers Weekly
Savage, a Ukrainian-born journalist, was invited in 1991 to teach a course on Western media at Kyiv State University, in the Ukrainian capital, and to serve as a guest editor for the Communist government-affiliated Ukraina's Society's English-language newspaper. Eager to see her birthplace again, Savage (who fled during WWII) returned to Ukraine with her m...

Book Description

This invaluable guide takes you beyond borsch, Bolsheviks and the Bolshoi to unveil cultural treasures, fast- moving cities, and vast, empty landscapes in a region that stretches halfway around the world.

• 124 detailed maps, including metro maps
• special food & drink section - more than just vodka and caviar
• tips on avoiding queues and...

From Library Journal
Recent books and movies, as well as the forthcoming quincentennial of Columbus's "discovery" of America have heightened social awareness of Native Americans. Gattuso, a veteran travel writer, commissioned essays from Native American authors in producing a book that is part cultural journey, part travel guide, and part photographic extravaganza. The travel se...

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The best guide to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, completely updated

Detailed walking tours of each city's neighborhoods
Museums, monuments, and architectural treasures
The cultural scene, from jazz clubs to the Bolshoi

Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget

Modern high-rises, palatial grande dames, soviet fortre...

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The Ukrainian Weekly
Scanning Tania D'Avignon's photo album is a kin to driving through the Ukrainian countryside, stopping whenever the spirit moves you...

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Text: German, English, French

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Book Description
The new Bradt guide on Ukraine is a travel manual to read before, during, and after a trip. It features comprehensive practical information, while revealing the country's personality through in-depth exploration of its history, culture, and natural beauty. Comprehensive coverage of Kiev--the birthplace of Slavic civilization--is provided along with a region-by-r...

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Original Language: English

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From Publishers Weekly
To the authors, Ohio farmers, glasnost and perestroika have immediate meaning, as they establish in this memoir of a six-month exchange they arranged privately in 1989 whereby they lived on a collective farm in the Ukraine, while two Ukrainians worked in the U.S. on the Dulls' and a neighboring family's farms. These self-described citizen-diplomats, who pr...

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Text: English, French (translation)

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Inside Flap Copy
The best guide to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, completely updated

Detailed walking tours of each city's neighborhoods
Museums, monuments, and architectural treasures
The cultural scene, from jazz clubs to the Bolshoi

Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget

Modern high-rises, palatial grande dames, soviet fortre...

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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)

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Ingram
Travel abroad can be much more enjoyable with these wonderful new editions of Fodor's 1996 travel guides.

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Language Notes
Text: English, Russian (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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