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Bradt Guide Croatia
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The new Bradt guide to this popular and tranquil alternative to mainstream Mediterranean Europe focuses on its natural and cultural attractions. It covers all the national parks and nature reserves in depth, allowing walkers to discover quiet trails around the waterfalls of the Plitvice Lakes and dramatic mountain scenery. Key information for sunbathers and sailors is provided on the pick of the hundreds of islands along Croatia’s stunning Dalmatian coastline.
Book Reviews
"Highly recommended travel guide to Croatia, and currently the most up-to-date one! Certainly a must for all those visiting the country this year. Very detailed guide provides information for all types of travellers, from holidaymakers to backpackers, families to lone travellers."
-- Visit Croatia: www.visit-croatia.co.uk
"Informative and entertaining."
John Crowley, The Daily Telegraph
"Croatia: The Bradt Travel Guide is erudite, iconic and informative."
-- Belfast News Letter Group
About this Destination
Croatia’s peaceful beauty belies its turbulent past. Standing at the crossroads of Europe, and offering an extraordinary heritage, dramatic mountains, 1,185 islands, and the best climate on the Adriatic, it is regaining the reputation it once enjoyed as the most popular region of Yugoslavia
Author's Note, by Piers Letcher
Updated 11 April, 2005.
I’ve had a love affair with Croatia for more than twenty years, ever since I first inter-railed round Europe in 1982 and got stranded in Split for four days, waiting for someone to show up who never showed. It wasn’t difficult to find my way out to the islands of Braè and Hvar, and from there to Korèula and on to Dubrovnik, by which time I was off the inter-rail map, and into a different place altogether.
Three years later I got diverted in Trieste and ended up in Pula instead of Athens, and worked my way down the coast as far as Split again, stopping in at Rab, and then for a week at the lovely Paklenica national park (still a Croatian favourite). To get back to where I was going I went up through the country to Zagreb, and saw the Plitvice Lakes for the first time. I travelled inland, and visited the pretty baroque town of Vukovar, then wandered up through Osijek into Hungary.
It wasn’t long before I was hammering at Bradt’s door and clamouring to write about (what was then) Yugoslavia. That book came out in 1989, just in time to be washed away by the war - I spent 1991 glued to the television set, watching in horror as Vukovar fell and Dubrovnik was shelled, and had to wait a decade for my second chance.
My Bradt guide to Croatia was published in 2003 and now, two years later, here’s the second edition: every hotel, restaurant, museum and national park, along with their associated costs, has been re-visited, revised and re-worked, so what you have here is the most comprehensive and (I hope) useful guide to the country - and the only one which covers all the national parks and nature reserves.
Born and educated in the UK, Piers Letcher has lived in France for the past 20 years. As an independent writer and photographer he has published 15 books, more than a thousand newspaper and magazine articles and hundreds of photographs. From the mid-nineties he spent several years as a speechwriter at the United Nations in Geneva, before returning to his freelance career in 2002. He is the author of Eccentric France and Dubrovnik: The Bradt City Guide and contributes irregularly to The Guardian Unlimited.
£12.95
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