1 comments about The High Tatras: Slovakia and Poland: Including the Western Tatras and White Tatras (Cicerone Guide).

1. It was great to have it before we visited the Tatras.We were well prepare for the trip. It was well written and illustrated by a prof hiker . A must for any serious hiker....
   
   Gabor Pattantyus

2 comments about Poland: A Historical Atlas.

1. From my experience, it has been very hard to get a good Polish history text. However, in this case, Pogonowski comes up with a very helpful format by providing some historical text followed by numerous large maps showing that historical activity. This book is very useful if you are reading accounts of Polish history -- or even a Sienkiewicz novel -- and need to see the CONTEMPORARY map so that you can associate the history or story with the ever-changing map of Poland and the Polish Commonwealth. - I like what the author did. It's very useful. And I recommend the book highly as an auxiliary reading tool.



2. This book seems to be to be a mock-up that accidentally got bound and sold before it had a chance to be edited by either the author or the publisher. It is filled with typos--English, not Polish, which I am not qualified to judge; contradictory dates; phrases, such as "Golden Freedoms," repeated but never explained; map borders overlaid on one another so it is impossible to see what's going on; legends missing on the maps. As a result, I am leery of its historical and geographical accuracy too, and feel I will have to double and triple check it against other sources before I can trust it.

No comments about Poland South West (Michelin Regional Maps).

No comments about Krakow (Poland) Map by ITMB.

No comments about Poland Travel Map by Hema (English, Spanish and Italian Edition).

5 comments about History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1).

1. Some people are able to believe in everything what seems to be logic and supported by some equations and statistics.
   
   It is really funny that even the wildest theory will always find its followers.
   
   Russian science has problem with pseudoscientists. For instance: Lysenko, Michurin in the agrobiology and now Famenko in history.
   
   Maybe in the next volumes of his revised version of history he will try to convince us that:
   
   - Jews are the descendants of merchants who did not pay taxes regullary and were expelled from the Novogrod.
   - Ethiopians are the descendants of the miners (that's why they are black) who escaped from the coal mines, which were placed in Ural. But one of them remained in Russia and later he became the gradfather of Alexander Pushkin.
   - Asians are the descendants of peepers or spies (that's why they have eyes with an epicanthic fold) who were unmasked and left Russia.
   
   Because everything can be proved with statistics.



2. It's some writer working under a pseudonym, getting writer-friends to write these horrible, long-winded reviews.



3. HA HA! IS FUNNY BECAUSE IS NOT TRUE! IS ALSO FUNNY BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY IS TRUE!



4. The way Fomenko rips apart consensual history in a very convincing manner has undoubtebly unnerved a few people who see it as their job to defend this history from all challenges to its integrity. Yet their defence of consensual history is unable to deter Fomenko's assaults on it throughout the book, and by the end of it Fomenko has well and truly broken through the walls. Once you have finished reading this book you will no longer look at history the same way again. However i wouldn't say that this book is for the curious reader, instead it is most likely to appeal to the serious history student who is not contented to swallow everything given to him but has an open and investigative mind.



5. Chances are even if you have a Ph.D in Mathematics and or Physics you take you car to a mechanic whose highest level of education is high school. In short, expertise in one field does not equate to expertise in another, if it did historians would be writing papers on String Theory. It should also not surprise that in a time when people get their idea of history from the likes of Dan Brown a book such as this would find a market, like Barnum said, "A sucker is born every minute!"
   
   Now, the author would have one believe those nasty Jesuits cooked up a bogus history of the world and have snookered everyone (but him, it seems the Jesuits are clever, real clever, just not clever enough) for hundreds of years. Boy, people are really stupid, except for our author. It's a good thing he has come along to lift the veil of ignorance from our eyes!
   
   This is what you must believe to take this authors thesis as valid. Myself, just as I'll take my car to a mechanic who knows his trade and pass on the mathematician, I'll get my history from someone who has dedicated his life to it's study.
   
   Also, IMHO the positive reviews are mostly pathetic attempts by friends (perhaps the author himself) to praise the book. Syntax use in many of them indicate English is not the first tongue, it almost sounds like a Russian writing (very well by the way, but certainly no Conrad like command) English.
   
   
   Too bad I can't give negative stars.

1 comments about Krakow Insight Flexi Map (Insight Flexi Maps).

1. We purchased this map to use during our recent trip to Krakow. We've used STREETWISE maps for our previous international trips, but they didn't have one for Krakow. We ultimately never used this map, though, and relied on the maps in the LonelyPlanet "Best of Krakow" guide and a street guide given to us by the guesthouse desk clerk.
   
   While not sturdy as the STREETWISE maps, this map is fairly tough. However, we found two major problems with this map. First, the map unfolds to a larger spread than the STREETWISE map, making it more difficult to look at quickly while walking around. The larger problem, though, was the design--its far too busy and overloaded with info.
   
   When I'm walking around in a new place, I need to quickly orient myself to street names. Locations of useful places are nice, but shouldn't keep me from quickly finding out where I am. This map gives too much information--its an explosion of color and names that I have to process through to get to basic street names.
   
   This might be a useful map to use to plan out a trip to specific places. However, for me it was not useful while actually walking around and just trying to get to those places.
   
   So, it's a good map for information, but not for actual navigation.

No comments about Krakow and Poland Travel Map (Globetrotter Travel Map).

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1 comments about Michelin Poland (Michelin Map) (Multilingual Edition).

1. I have Michelin maps of several European countries. I consider the brand the gold standard. Index of cities and towns is good. Map is easy to read (but you need space to spread it out. And sidebar maps of principal cities help you navigate around them.