Neville Shulman in the foreword of the book
"If you manage to stand on the roof of Africa, you will experience the kind of exhilaration which comes but rarely in an individual's lifetime. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is an intriguing and stimulating book. It should be carried inside a backpack, knapsack, suitcase, or even a jacket pocket and referred to constantly and will save th...

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Complete with a 16-page color safari section, this outdoor guide features expert advice on hiking and treking, complete coverage of national parks and reserves, and detailed directions on how to reach some of the world's best dive sites. of color. 40 maps. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Pre-trip planning, finding and hiring outfitters, and thorough information on dozens of trails are included in this comprehensive guide to the 30 top climbing and trekking routes on Mount Kilimanjaro and her sister peak, Mount Kenya color insert. 30 b&w photos.

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From Booklist
This is a companion book to writer and mountaineer David Breashears' film, which follows the weeklong journey of five trekkers and a guide to the top of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Salkeld presents a comprehensive portrait of this impressive mountain, which draws thousands of climbers every year. The author describes Kilimanjaro as, in effect, a solitary island with u...

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This user-friendly travel map has been specifically designed for visitors as a practical and informative guide to Tanzania. More than just a map, it includes detailed street plans of major towns and large-scale projections of popular tourist destinations. This map contains regional climate charts, full color photographs, concise place names index and much more. T...

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No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go. In this completely up-to-date guide our experts who live in Kenya and Tanzania give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do -- from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun. Fodor...

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A comprehensive guide to the adventures and pleasures of East Africa--a region boasting incredible scenic wonders, a rich tapestry of peoples and history, and some of the best wildlife viewing in the world. Illustrated.

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Excerpted from The Lake Regions of Central Africa: Volume I from Zanzibar to Lake Tanganyika by Richard Francis Burton. Copyright © 2001. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Sir Richard Burton was a brilliant and complex explorer, linguist, adventurer, scholar and swordsman. The Lake Regions of Central Africa is the narrative of three years' hard travel fro...

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From Library Journal
Serengeti National Park covers an area the size of Connecticut across the wilds of East Africa. Within its boundaries, millions of animals live and die, as they have for thousands of years. Consisting of about 300 photographs, this book presents one year on the African plain. Iwago's photographs capture the essence of a sometimes brutal, sometimes idyllic, a...

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From School Library Journal
Grade 6-9-- While most readers will never go on such an excursion, they can experience the danger and wonder of an African trek here. The book is everything a well-written travelogue should be--it's a preserve of information, excitement, and realism, well stocked with thrilling adventures, comic mishaps, fascinating animals, and memorable characters. ...

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From the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro's snow-capped equatorial peaks to the depths of Lake Tanganyika and the coral reefs of the Indian Ocean, across the primeval wilderness of the Serengeti's grassy plains to the spice islands of the Zanzibar archipelago, Tanzania brims with life. Renowned for its rare wildlife and for the great migration of millions of wildebee...

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"the best travel guide to Tanzania...concise, well-informed, and entertaining."
--Weekly Mail, South Africa


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All the information you need on a destination in one handy pack. This exciting new addition to the Globetrotter range offers exceptional value for money by combining Guide and Map in a pocket-sized, plastic wallet. Each pack contains the relevant Globetrotter Travel Guide and a full-size Travel Map folded to fit the wallet. (7 1/2' x 5 1/4' x 5/8')


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Practical, informative and user-friendly, the Globetrotter Travel Pack to Tanzania highlights the major places of interest, describing their principal attractions and offering sound suggestions on where to tour, stay, eat, shop and relax.
This guide is ideal for the first-time visitor. It is concise and informative and contains over 25 full color area maps, t...

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Language Notes
Text: English, French, German, Hungarian (translation)

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