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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides; illustrated edition edition (22 Mar 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841620025
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841620022
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 695,101 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Yunnan Province, in southwest China, is one of the country's most geographically and ethnically diverse regions and is poised to become a focus for ecotourism. This guide covers Yunnan's many attractions, and provides information for all travellers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent guide to Yunnan, a fascinating region in China, 5 May 2001
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This volume is strongly recommended.

As the guide book industry proliferates and more and more countries, cities, and landscapes come under the microscope a case can be made that increasing specialization brings complication for the traveler and added pressures upon both inhabitant and environment at the destination. The traveler yearns for a volume that is more than simply a where-to guide but a companion to be read with enjoyment and reflection. Those to be visited not only want but also deserve a volume that can engender a fair boost to the local economy but is also something that is sympathetic to their concerns and ways of life without being either patronizing or false.

In Bradt's Guide to Yunnan this careful balance is achieved. The author, Stephen Mansfield, is very well known in Asia as a stylist with a careful eye, fully appreciative of culture, topography and ethnology.

The "background information" section to the book is carefully researched and offers a good introduction to Yunnan, China's most ethnically varied province. Sidebars throughout the volume offer insight with one near the beginning "Parking Lots in the Jungle," offering a particularly incisive look at the role, not always above board, of modern economic pressures.

The separate and highly detailed sections on Dali, Lijiang, Xishuangbanna, (and other sites) also offer much more than the typical guidebook melange of useful hotel and restaurant possibilities. As one who spent two weeks in Dali many years ago I can say that through the author's style one gets a sense of place-a desire to go if one hasn't and a desire to return if one has. In that sense this volume has the ability to provoke a sense of travel.

My one extremely minor criticism is that there are not more photographs (there are 8 pages of them in color) in the volume as those that do appear are both professional and complement the text style. Then again, many travelers are happy to wait to see with their own eyes and in that sense this book, which one should buy and read before visiting Yunnan, will certainly help them make sense of what they do see.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best guide to Yunnan, 3 Sep 2006
By Sam "bgwgbooks" (London, England) - See all my reviews
This is by far and away the most detailed guide to Yunnan. (Have yet to road test it)
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