No comments about Rand McNally Hallwag International Map: Romania/Burgaria.

No comments about Romania Road Atlas (Country Atlas).

No comments about Bucharest Map (City Map) (Romanian Edition).

No comments about Bulgaria and Romania Insight Travel Map.

No comments about Romania/Moldova.

No comments about Romania Map (Travel Reference Map) by ITMB.

No comments about Romania Insight Travel Map.

2 comments about The Mountains of Romania (A Cicerone Guide).

1. Just came back from a few days hiking in the Piatra Craiului in Romania. Unfortunately I had three days of non-stop rain so I wasn't able to do any of the hikes from the guide that are on top of the ridge of the mountain. Instead I walked a few routes below the tree line. I did find the general info in the book very useful. It tells you about train travel, accomodation, mountain huts (cabanas), equipment, flora and fauna, useful words and phrases and useful addresses. Besides this guide I would also bring a detailed map of the area where you're hiking. The maps in the guide are too small and lack detail in case you want to trot outside the marked routes.



2. In Romania hiking is somewhat hard for foreigners outside of the more populated areas due to the lack of signage as well as a lack of availability in directions in hiking from some sources in parts of the country. The book will tell you enough information if you want to go to main tourist hiking destinations and use forest/walker trails as well as some maps on finding your way around while trying not to get lost. While it is not quite high quality, think more of the late 80's early 90's street maps it will get you where you need to go in the designated areas. Some of the most scenic views are slightly off the beaten path and require distancing yourself from this book. Romania's mountains are beautifull and worth the hike this will tell you a little about what you can see and hopefully make you decide positively on your preplanned adventure. It is always a good idea however when hiking in Romania to know your surroundings as well as having someone who is Romanian with you so that you may explore more and have a more enjoyable time.

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

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



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



3. 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.



4. 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.



5. This book will blow your mind, if you let it. Many people will find this books conclusions impossible to swallow for the direct assault on so many commonly but uncritically held beliefs about historical and even personal family timelines.
   
   But regardless of whether one follows the reasoning to its conclusion or one stops short of accepting such revisions to the now commonly held version of history dictated largely by the West, there is no doubt the book raises many, many important questions about what we know as the history of civilization. Despite its academic tone and the fact that it is a translation from Russian most will find this book to be extraordinarily readable.
   
   Many who experience difficulty accepting the conclusions of the book will still find it a quite enjoyable read if taken as a work of historical or speculative fiction, a book of possible worlds, alternate past histories.
   
   Surely by now, most would recognize the semantic curvature of mens' minds, the subtle distortions in stories retold for generations, the relatively late development of standardized and consistent dating among the world, could lead to there being many things taken as "fact" in our history, that are yet uncritically founded or in need of further research. But surprisingly, many folks still resist a critical review, revamping, or making a fresh attempt to construct a new model through years of meticulous research as Fomenko has evidently done.
   
   People who are unused to critically questioning and challenging the accepted "Truths" of history, religion, and even science, will probably have a hard time with this book. People who are set in their ways, or believe very strongly in any dogmatically asserted beliefs or paradigms, or with cultural or moral imperatives that prevent them from revising their models of the world or making new models, will likely be unable to read very much of this book.
   
   Also, some replies to the other reviews.
   
   There are a lot of two or three line negative reviews, claiming the book is too fantastic, too "christian", makes unsupported claims, or "lacks methodology."
   
   Really the only way the reviewers could arrive at these conclusions is if they did not read the book, or perhaps they only skimmed it, or perhaps they have heard about its admittedly fantastic claims and feel a need to defend their personal world view by writing a negative review.
   
   Please - don't take their OR my word for it, read the book on google books. Fomenko and the publisher have kindly consented to present the book in its entirety on Google Books. I read the book first there, for free, and now I'm buying the first of what will likely be several copies, the remainder of which I will gift to select friends who already question the dominant paradigms and world-views handed to us by dated or uncritical high school text books and much modern media. Indeed, as another reviewer mentioned, Leary and RAW would be well proud of Fomenko.
   
   Perhaps the reviewers who find this book "christian" do so because of the subject matter. Europe since the time of the Roman Empire has used the Birth of Christ as the point of origin or date zero on the timeline now in use in the western world, A.D. or Anno Domini, latin for "the year of our Lord." Yet even this system was not standardized for nearly two thousand, or if Fomenko is to be believed, many hundreds of years. So much of Fomenko's work involves verifying, questioning and reconciling many of the earlier dates of the Christian era. But despite the centrality of the birth of Jesus to the European system of chronology, the book pretty much leaves alone the issue of Christ's actual existence. Its pretty hard to take away any sort of religious bias either for, or against, from this book.
   
   Also there is a reviewer who has stated that a lot of the positive reviews seem to be written by Russians, or at least bear signs of being written by non-native speakers of English. To this I can only say, Fomenko is indeed a Russian, so is it really that surprising that his widest recognition and audience thus far is with fellow Russians?
   
   Seriously, buy this book here on Amazon, or go find the book on Google Books, and read it. This is the kind of critical questioning of the underpinnings of civilization that could be the start of an entirely new version of the history of civilization, and could also be the beginning of an evolution in analytic methods of mathematics being applied to the analysis of historical events.

No comments about Romania (Michelin National Maps).