Second edition of this mountain walking and trekking guide to Croatia, Europe with walks in the Dinaric Alps (Gorski Kotar and Velebit), Istria, Slavonia, the islands (Pelje?ac, Korcula, Mljet, Hvar, Brac, Lo?inj and Cres) and around Zagreb. Revised and enlarged to include several new routes, it now describes 26 routes from easy day walks to treks and via ferrata over varied terrain. Better known for its sunny beaches and unspoilt coastline, Croatia's beautifully rugged uplands remain largely unseen by most visitors, despite their proximity to the coast. Routes range from easy to challenging, and cover a variety of terrains from rocky peaks and wooded hills to seawater lakes and travertine falls. Written by an author who has lived in Zagreb and has been visiting Croatia since the late 1990s, this guide includes detailed background information, with sections on history, culture, wildlife, accommodation and planning information, including a directory of the mountain huts and their facilities.
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Rudolf Abraham is an award-winning writer and photographer whose love of travel and remote places has taken him from the Balkans to eastern Turkey, Central Asia and Patagonia. He first visited Croatia in 1998, lived in Zagreb from 1999-2001, and still make several trips a year to his favourite country in Europe. His other books include 'The Mountains of Montenegro', also published by Cicerone.
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I am a regular visitor to Croatia. Whether as someone who sort of knows the place or as someone with no experience, I have two major problems with this guide:
1) The guide is almost entirely focussed on multi-day treks. There are mutitudes of possibilities of one-day hikes in the regions the book covers, but the book does not provide these options. There are no "shorter versions" of walks given where they exist. In summertime, multi-day treks on water-free mountains where wild camping is technically forbidden, are not - probably - what the normal walker in Croatia is looking for. Additionally, the guide seems to be concentrating on "bagging" all the mountain ranges irrespective of their intrinsic quality or attractiveness. For example, yes Biokovo, Mosor and the northern Velebit are fine mountains, but the real focus of this stretch of coast should be the southern Velebit's Pakenica National Park, which is just infinitely better equipped with paths and huts, not to mention being scenecially superior: it's not a National Park for nothing. Anyone who visits Mosor from Split, thinking that this is representative of the delights on offer is going to be very disappointed. For Paklenica, there is still no better English guide than the scant few (priceless) pages in Piers Letcher's 1989 book "Yugoslavia: Mountain Walks and Historic Sites" (long out of print). The sole decent day walks in the book (in my opinion) are the hike to the top of Sv Ilija from Orebic and the walk from Martinscica to Lubenice on Cres, neither of which really require a book to explain.... Read more ›
1) The guide is almost entirely focussed on multi-day treks. There are mutitudes of possibilities of one-day hikes in the regions the book covers, but the book does not provide these options. There are no "shorter versions" of walks given where they exist. In summertime, multi-day treks on water-free mountains where wild camping is technically forbidden, are not - probably - what the normal walker in Croatia is looking for. Additionally, the guide seems to be concentrating on "bagging" all the mountain ranges irrespective of their intrinsic quality or attractiveness. For example, yes Biokovo, Mosor and the northern Velebit are fine mountains, but the real focus of this stretch of coast should be the southern Velebit's Pakenica National Park, which is just infinitely better equipped with paths and huts, not to mention being scenecially superior: it's not a National Park for nothing. Anyone who visits Mosor from Split, thinking that this is representative of the delights on offer is going to be very disappointed. For Paklenica, there is still no better English guide than the scant few (priceless) pages in Piers Letcher's 1989 book "Yugoslavia: Mountain Walks and Historic Sites" (long out of print). The sole decent day walks in the book (in my opinion) are the hike to the top of Sv Ilija from Orebic and the walk from Martinscica to Lubenice on Cres, neither of which really require a book to explain.... Read more ›
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By E. Jelinek
Format:Paperback
I must say I wasn't particularly impressed with the book. I didn't do all the walks and so can't comment on all of it (I mainly walked Paklenica and Sjeverni Velebit), but most of the walks are perfectly well marked and there are very good SMAND maps available in Croatia which makes quite a bit of the info superfluous. The one area where I walked and could have used more complete information (Brac island) the book fell short and didn't describe the possible walks completely. However it's perfectly OK as a guide and has some handy tips, but honestly I didn't really need it.
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Walking in Croatia
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By William R Hoffman
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This book contained most of the information I was searching for. It was very helpful in describing hiking opportunities in Croatia.
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More work needed
5 Dec 2012
By James Hunt
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Maps are are very poor. With bad maps the hike description is not good enough. However with information scarce on Croatian hikes this book is a welcome introduction to the great hiking the region has to offer.
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More than just a trail guide
11 Dec 2010
By Harry E. Rogers
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This book has very interesting summary of the history of the region for openers. It then gets into where to walk.
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