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Waterway Guide Southern 2006: Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas (Waterway Guide Southern Edition) (Waterway Guide Southern Edition)

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

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As “The Cruising Authority,” Waterway Guide is your indispensable cruising companion, featuring detailed navigational information, spectacular aerial photographs with white-lined routes—and what to do ashore. This well-known series, updated annually since 1947, provides the most comprehensive and current data available on nearly 4,000 marinas and boating-related businesses on the East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas, the Great Lakes and America’s Great Loop Cruise. Information includes marina and boatyard locations and the services they offer, bridge schedules, distance tables, charts you will need, significant harbors, and a Mariner’s Handbook of cruising essentials. WATERWAY GUIDE’s four editions—Mid-Atlantic, Southern, Northern and Great Lakes—complete America’s Great Loop Cruise. Each guide, full of spectacular four-color aerial photography and artwork, is approximately 500 pages. The guides are spiral-bound with bookmarker flaps for easy use in the cockpit and at the helm. For 60 years, Waterway Guide has been America’s most popular and trusted cruising guide.

The Land of the Pink Pearl

L. D. Powles, Neil Sealey

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The Land Of The Pink Pearl 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This is a very ineresting book and a must read for anyone going to the Bahamas or wanting to learn moreabout life in the late 1800s Bahamas. Mr. Powles takes the reader along on his travels in the islands and gives good discriptions of life of the common people and ther living conditions.

Fodor's In Focus Bahamas, 1st Edition

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Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in the Bahamas!

•Fodor’s In Focus Bahamas features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in the Bahamas.

Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

Tropical Shipwrecks: A Vacationing Diver's Guide to the Bahamas and Caribbean

Daniel Berg, Denise Berg

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 2.5 of 5

A good book to wet your appetite! 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I have read almost all of the Bergs books and those penned by Daniel Berg solo. The Bergs are well known wreck divers. The book has many really exellent photos and hits most of the highlights of Island wreck diving. It is broken down by Islands and gives a little blurb about history and conditions for each wreck. What the book lacks are, the exact locations of the wrecks and the accessability, e.g. shore dive, dive charter, 1 hr. trip or 2 hr. trip? A good photo book to get psyched up for your vacation.

Editorial Review:

Besides loving the sport of Scuba diving, the authors Daniel and Denise Berg have a genuine interest in the history of shipwrecks. They have travelled extensively in search of great wreck diving adventures and spent countless hours researching each site in order to compile this text.Tropical Shipwrecks conatins a wealth if information such as; aquatic life, currents, bottom composition, depth, visability and the history and present condition of 135 shipwrecks spread over 35 tropical islands. This text includes 127 illustrations comprised of color photos, Black and white historical images, maps, and drawings which combined with an informative text paint a complete picture of each wreck site. Many of these rare photos have never before been published. Divers, snokelers, marine historians, armchair sailore or anyone with a general interset in history, diving or the sea will surely find this book fascinating and the perfact addition to their library.

Jamaica (Freytag & Berndt Road Map)

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Waterway Guide Southern 2007: Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas

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Lonely Planet Bahamas, Turks and Caicos

Christopher P. Baker

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Five Stars??? Well, I don't know about that. 2 out of 5 stars.
35 of 37 people found this review helpful.

Found the book useful as a starting point. Complete, thorough. Interesting tidbits. But when it came down to actually scheduling trips and tickets, I found out that most of the information was already out of date.

BahamasAir wasn't familiar with the AirPass, so I had to fax them the section where the author cattily railed on them. All they had to say was "interesting."

The suggested weekend and week trips were a little sketchy as well. In fact, when I had acutally arrived, I never used the book because of the terrific tourist infrastructure already in place.

Overall, I felt the author was a little harsh on his take with Bahamian culture, keeping a good sense of humor but almost crossing the line of offensive in some places.

People should remember that these tour books are a subjective peephole into their place of destination, and should always keep an open mind to discover for themselves.

I had a great time there.

Editorial Review:

Strung like jeweled necklaces across hundred of miles of turquoise sea, The Bahamas and Turks & Caicos are a traveler's dream. Whether you want to lounge on white-sand beaches, revel in some of the world's best fishing and diving, or try your luck in Nassau's casinos, this detailed and opinionated guide will lead you to all the delights of the islands.

• coverage of all outdoor activities, from bonefishing in the Biminis to kayaking through the national parks
• places to stay and eat, from down-to-earth to opulent
• off-the-beaten-track dive sites, hidden beaches, and historic villages
• 54 detailed maps showing every island

Caribbean & the Bahamas , 6th (Country & Regional Guides - Cadogan)

James Henderson

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Pithy and enthralling tome 5 out of 5 stars.
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For travelers and pirate enthusiasts, there's some really good, well-written and thorough historical, cultural and zoological depiction of all the scattered islands. I envy Jim Henderson because he has traveled them all, and I'm thankful he's gone to this much effort to document his experiences and anecdotes in vivid detail.

"Charlotte Amalie is a classically pretty Caribbean town -- red roofs and bursts of palm fronds that scatter the hillsides around a bay and steep alleys that lead down to the harbour. The warehouses on the waterfront are doing a roaring trade as they have on and off for over 300 years. Even in 1700, Pere Labat, the roving Dominican monk and self-confessed gastronome from Martinique, found silks from India and gold-embroidered Arabian muslin cloth. It was all off-loaded by pirates who stopped in port to spend their loot before heading seawards again for more 'cruize and plunder'...

Laminated Bahamas Map by Borch (English Edition)

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Folded laminated road and travel map, in color. Scale 1:500,000. Legend includes sights, museums, monuments, churches, castles, ruins, beaches, yachting, scuba diving sites, shipwrecks, hospitals, golf courses, bus stations, parking, petrol stations, reefs, international/regional airports, airfields, expressways (free/toll), national parks, nature reserves, hotels. Includes inset map of New Providence, Nassau (1:20,000), Grand Bahama & Abaco Island, Freeport (1:50,000), Bimini Islands, Berry Islands, Andros Island, Eleuthera Ialsnd, Cat Island, San Salvador Island, Exuma Islands (North), Exuma Islands (South), Ragged Islands, Long Island, Acklins & Crooked Island, MayaGuana Island, Inagua Islands. Climate charts show the average daily temperatures, humidity, hours of sunshine and precipitation for each month. Extensive Index.

Bahama Islands; (A Van Nostrand sporting book)

J. Linton Rigg

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