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| The People's Guide to Mexico (Peoples Guide to Mexico) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Carl Franz, Lorena Havens
Creator: Steve Rogers
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (18 reviews)
Sales Rank: 26582
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 13th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 1566917115
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.204841
EAN: 9781566917117
ASIN: 1566917115
Publication Date: October 4, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.
Features include:
- Advice on planning your trip, where to go, and how to get around once you're there
- Practical tips to help you stay healthy and safe, deal with red tape, change money, send email, letters and packages, use the telephone, do laundry, order food, speak like a local, and more
- Well-informed insight into Mexican culture, and hints for enjoying traditional fiestas and celebrations
- The most complete information available on Mexican Internet resources, book and map reviews, and other info sources for travelers
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Sweet Mexico... October 26, 2008
This book won't tell you where to go...It will surely give you what you need to know How to go. It will immerse you into the culture and tone of Mexico. It is a sweet and humorous read even if you don't go.
 Let's go to Mexico October 24, 2008
The product was delivered in great shape and on time.
As far as the book goes...
The authors are obviously experts on the topic, not to mention down to earth, and have a humerous side. I very much enjoyed the book. I also bought the book "Gringos in Paradise", whom the authors mentioned "The people's guide..."in thier book. Both books are good, but are written from different view points.
JMS
Most everything you ever wanted to know about Mexico! August 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is particularly useful for people who are going to be traveling outside of the touristy areas. It is packed with tons of little details that you'd never even think to ask. Definately a "must-have" for anyone really interested in Mexico.
Review of People's Guide to Mexico February 19, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well written and useful, with information and comments you might not see elsewhere. Sometimes a little more chatty and anecdotal than I'd hope for in a practical guide, and skewed a bit maybe to the backpack and VW Microbus crowd, but it's never dull reading. I would bring this book to Mexico for sure, but I would bring other, more conventional, guides along also.
Brilliant, goes beyond a mere travel book January 23, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sometimes a book can go beyond the limitations of the genre, much as a comedy can reveal deeper truths or music can inspire you to reflect on your life. "The People's Guide to Mexico" transcends the normal limitations of the travel guide to offer deeper truths about life itself to those who wish to experience them.
Few books are so meaningful that one can read them several times and always remain entertained, challenged, and inspired. The cooking section alone is worth the price of the book. I refer to it frequently when cooking Mexican food dishes. But the author's perspective on life, experiences, and advice continue to provide new truths every time I read it.
Some of you are probably thinking I must be nuts to rant and rave about how brilliant a travel guide to Mexico is. I can hear you thinking, "Dude, it's not the Bible. Chill." Just read it. Seriously, give it a shot. I think at worst you will find it a series of entertaining stories about some hippies who lived in Mexico. But I think if you open your mind to the deeper truths it offers, it will be worth it.
I try when I write reviews to give readers the positive and negatives of whatever I'm reviewing to make the review as helpful, accurate, and balanced as possible. Of this particular book, I can't think of any criticism of it at all. That says a lot.
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