Lonely Planet South Pacific

by Michelle Bennett, Tione Chinula, Leanne Logan, et al.

Book Overview

This guide includes coverage of all the Pacific islands. It gives descriptions of canoe voyages taken by Pacific islanders in ancient times, and includes a special illustrated section on Pacific arts... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1864503025
• ISBN13: 9781864503029
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Good Book

We've checked this book out at the library before coming to Guam. There was a copy of it at our lodging place when we arrived. Now we need to have one of our own so that we know the in's an out's of Guam for our guests.

A great starting point for the South Pacific

I'm extremely impressed at the South Pacific book by LP. Sometimes with books that are published as multi-country guides, you're worried that they're going to totally miss the smaller islands that themselves don't warrant their own individual books. To my surprise, places like Niue, Tuvalu, Pitcairn Island (itself a curious choice) were covered and yet misses Nauru and Palau. However, nitpicking aside, this is a really good book, even for travel book standards. It's pretty comprehensive, and you can tell that the book had boots on the ground instead of less dubious LP authors just writing about what they find on the internet. As someone who likes to find a brand of travel books and stick with them, I feel that Lonely Planet fell apart over the last few years and are slowly getting back to the top of the heap. I plan to use this book as the primary source of information for Fiji and Tuvalu for starters, and then see where the winds take me. I'm happy with a travel book for once, and that says a lot.

South Pacific Guide book

The guide is well oraganized, includes all the pertinent items of weather, cost, options, activities, etc. I expect it to be a great help when I travel around the south pacific islands.

Great guide for islands that make up the South Pacific

Great guide book with excerpts and maps of the islands that make up the South Pacific and Micronesia. Maps are clear enough to plot out trips for the day, the week, or the whole vacation. Lonely Planet is my go-to for guide books, due to the depth of research and information provided. I picked this up for a friend who was going to Guam, and I was most impressed by the data provided in the form of history of the island, factoids, customs, and specialties. I would pick up a Lonely Planet guide for all of my travels, and this one was especially well-received.

Comprehensive but not boring guide to travel with!

I used this Guide to plan my travels in the Western Pacific and although it is a bit 'old' I found its information is still mostly up-to-date and really useful. Great tips that correspond to real places, foods and opportunities. Have already planned on several more Pacific islands using this guide's tips.