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by osoaviahim Online Now Jun 7, 2011 at 8:18 AM

Hello! Are necessary to me itineraries from old books "Lonely planet" . Namely from these books: *Lonely Planet North Africa (1995) *Lonely Planet Oman & the United Arab Emirates (2000) *Lonely Planet Saudi Arabia (2004) *Lonely Planet Yemen (1999) I need only the itineraries! Thanks.

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    Re: Old books "Lonely planet"

    by ranger49 Online Now Jun 7, 2011 at 9:01 AM

    When using "old" guide books it is important to remember that some information could be out of date. In your case, as you are interested only in intineraries - if you would also hope to find information about transportation things might have changed quite a bit, specially info from 1995 which could have been collated a year or so before publication.

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    by osoaviahim Online Now Jun 7, 2011 at 9:37 AM

    No, thanks. To me are necessary only itineraries!

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    by leics Online Now Jun 7, 2011 at 10:10 AM

    I assume by 'itinerary' you mean a suggested and detailed route? The Lonely Planet guidebooks, as far as I know, do not actually give 'itineraries' as such (at least, those I have used do not). They simply give information about the various places in various areas in each country. There are some LP itineraries online for various countries, and one or two published LP 'itinerary' books. You should be able to get the old LP guidebooks you mention online from www.amazon.com

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    by Doctor38 Online Now Jun 7, 2011 at 11:01 AM

    try Google books

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    by hawkhead Online Now Jun 7, 2011 at 11:10 AM

    You don't list your country of residence. However, try bookbutler.com to source old books (also current ones).

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    by Fluffy_bunny Online Now Jun 7, 2011 at 12:06 PM

    Itineraries are listed in every LP book (contrary to some posts here). They are generally unchanged from edition to edition though. So you could very easily look in the new edition for itineraries.

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    Re: Old books "Lonely planet"

    by leics Online Now Jun 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM

    My apologies...my experience with LP is somewhat limited as I far prefer RG and only use LP when I have no RG choice. The one LP I have to hand does not give what I would call 'itineraries', only a very few (3) suggested routes with minimal information (one uses the rest of the book for detail). To me, an itinerary means more detailed information gathered together in one place, but perhaps that just is my personal interpretation.

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