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This guide includes a section detailing Mexico's history, 11 features covering the country's life and culture, ranging from its ritualistic Day of the Dead ceremony to its majestic pre-Columbian monuments, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive travel tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of photographs and 22 maps.
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This guide includes a section detailing Mexico's history, 11 features covering the country's life and culture, ranging from its ritualistic Day of the Dead ceremony to its majestic pre-Columbian monuments, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive travel tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of photographs and 22 maps.
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Mexico Insight Guide (Insight Guides)
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APA Publications Pte Ltd 29/11/2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 9812349189
ISBN 13: 9789812349187
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Mexico Insight Guide
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Condition: Used. Mexico Insight Guide (2002) Insight Guides ? Mexico Insight Guide ISBN: 9812349189 Condition: Used (like your high-school Spanish and your sunhat after day two) Here it is: Mexico Insight Guide (2002) , a gloriously glossy-but-now-gently-scuffed travel companion from that golden age when we still used paper maps and believed we could ?really get to know a country in two weeks.? Expertly assembled by Insight Guides and now living its best second life via Crappy Old Books , this volume offers culture, history, and sightseeing tips in full colour ? plus a bonus patina of previous owners? ambitions. Inside this proudly Used guide you?ll find: Sweeping photographs of beaches so perfect you?ll briefly forget about sunburn, sand-in-everything, and your mortal enemy, humidity. Mayan and Aztec ruins lovingly described in tones of scholarly enthusiasm, as if you won?t arrive, stare in awe for ten minutes, and then go hunting for a cold drink. Cities presented as charming blends of colonial architecture, bustling markets, and romantic plazas, where you are definitely supposed to wander thoughtfully rather than panic-buy fridge magnets. Cultural explanations that patiently outline history, traditions, and festivals whilst knowing full well your first phrase in Spanish will be ?una cerveza, por favor.? This is classic Insight Guides territory: big on context, big on images, big on making you feel that yes, you are the kind of person who would admire mural work and discuss it in depth, and not the kind who gets distracted by a stall selling churros. Now, about this particular copy, as unflinchingly described by Crappy Old Books . Condition: Used here means: The once-pristine laminated cover now bears small scuffs and the gentle curvature of a book that?s travelled, or at least spent serious time being opened on kitchen tables covered in ?potential itinerary? printouts. The spine features noble crease-lines ? each one a relic of a planning session where someone said, ?We?ll have a lazy day there,? and absolutely did not. The pages have matured from crisp guidebook white to a tasteful ?slightly sun-kissed,? which, given the subject, feels completely on brand. You may also encounter: Sections that fall open suspiciously easily at the ?Yucatán,? ?Playa del Carmen,? or ?Cancún? pages, hinting that a former owner?s idea of ?seeing the real Mexico? involved an all-inclusive resort and one enthusiastic excursion. A faint ripple or two where the book has clearly been near a pool, a bar, or a mildly catastrophic juice spill. Let?s call it textural authenticity . Corners softened by backpacks, carry-ons and the existential weight of airport security queues. The content, though, remains as gloriously earnest and encouraging as ever: Essays explaining Mexico?s layered history with the tone of a friendly professor who is frankly doing their best with you. Sidebars on art, architecture, religion, and food that quietly judge you for only knowing ?tacos? and ?tequila? but still take you by the hand and lead you gently towards enlightenment (and tacos). Detailed regional breakdowns that tempt you to plan a wildly unrealistic itinerary covering 14 destinations in 9 days. Maps and suggested routes created under the bold assumption that you will comfortably navigate public transport, road signage, and your own terrible sense of direction. This is not a pristine coffee-table ornament. This is a veteran guidebook ? broken in, slightly bruised, and ready for actual use, whether on the road or from the comfort of your sofa as you wistfully Google flight prices you have no business checking. Ideal for: Armchair travellers who want to feel clever and cultured while still in their pyjamas. Optimists planning ?the big trip? where everything will go smoothly and nobody will get sunstroke. Realists who know things will absolutely not go smoothly but are going anyway. People who believe a travel guide hasn?t truly lived until it?s acquired at least one mysterious stain and a slightly warped back cover. By adopting this Crappy Old Books copy of Mexico Insight Guide (2002) , you?re taking on a book that has already witnessed dreams of adventure, desperate phrasebook consultation, and at least one argument over whether this is the right bus. It?s colourful, it?s informative, it?s a little worn around the edges ? just like anyone who?s survived a multi-stop holiday with enthusiasm intact. Pack your curiosity. Leave your perfectionism. The guide?s ready. Are you? THIS BOOK BEARS THE CRAPPY OLD BOOKS STAMP. IF THAT IS UNDESIRABLE PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. THE STAMP MARKS WHICH IS USUALLY TO THE FRONT AND BACK INNER PAGES SAYS SOLD BY CRAPPY OLD BOOKS WITH WEB SITE URL. IT IN NO WAY DEMINISHED FROM THE READING. IF YOU WANT A PRISTINE BOOK, PLEASE FIND ANOTHER BOOK IN BETTER CONDITION SOMEWHERE ELSE. Seller Inventory # 439
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