Product Description

A travel guide to read before, during and after a trip to Ukraine, this book features comprehensive practical information, while revealing the country's personality through in-depth exploration of its history, culture and natural beauty. Traditional churches, monasteries and sacred sites provide a contrast to the notorious but compelling landmark of Chernobyl. Andrew Evans shows how Ukraine can easily be explored by rail, river cruise or sea ferry, and also on foot - the ideal way to take in the rustic villages of old-world Europe - with short walks and long-distance treks. The guide offers side trips into Moldova, Belarus and Eastern Europe, as well as a region-by-region guide to the Ukrainian provinces, including the stunning Crimean peninsula. It features detailed coverage of Kiev, the birthplace of Slavic civilization, and a cruising guide for Kiev, the Dnipr and the Black Sea. There is also a language section in Ukrainian and Russian.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #581290 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages

Customer Reviews

Best Guide to Ukraine (reviewed by Ukrainian)
Having done some travelling before and being familiar with a usual "average tourist" style of travel guides available on the market I was pleasantly surprised by the refreshing style of Andrew Evans' writing. He evidently did some in-depth study and managed to capture the essence of the Ukrainian culture in a short space of the first part of the book. I particularly enjoyed a brief overview of the Ukraine's history in the second chapter. I also liked the way Andrew presented Ukrainians with some witty comments in the third chapter of the book and could not agree more with him about the importance of getting to know the local people wherever one is travelling to. The second part of the book ("The Guide") provides concise information on pretty much all major destinations in Ukraine with some very practical advice on transport, accommodation etc. Being born in Odessa and living there for 20 years I enjoyed reading about my birthplace and hope that the positive outlook given by Andrew in his book will encourage many more tourists to visit this beautiful city. I hope very much that with the increasing number of visitors to Ukraine the word will spread about the hidden corners of this East European country and that this will generate a much deserved positive coverage for Ukraine in the Western media. I see this book as a pioneer in this area paving the way for other publications about Ukraine. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is travelling or consider travelling to Ukraine. Those who are particularly interested in Ukraine's capital city - Kiev, may find very useful to read a separate Bradt's city guide due later this year. See their website for more information - www.bradtguides.com

This is THE definitive guide to Ukraine
The publisher and author are to be congratulated for this book. It is a truly ground-breaking piece of work. It is well-written and researched and contains everything that a first time or returning traveller needs know when visiting this fascinating country. Ukraine is one of Europe's best kept secrets, a country with a rich culture, vibrant and cosmopolitan cities, alpine mountains, and a beautiful Mediterranean-style coastline on the Black Sea. But the country's greatest asset by far is its people. After decades of Soviet rule, they are coming out of their shell, and are warm in their welcome, and keen for contact with the west. Go now while it's still undiscovered, and don't forget to take this book!

Verbose guide to Ukraine
The tone of this book is set by the table of contents being buried behind pages of glossy images and other bumph - practicality for the traveller supplanted by the inflated page count achieved with over 100 pages of historical background and generalisation, and verbose descriptions of towns and tourist attractions.

The actual guide part of the book, 313 pages, does contain a lot of useful travel advice - details of hotels, transport advice, what to see and do. Confusingly the country map didn't reflect the organisation of the book.

This book is suited to reading all about a place before deciding to go, but rather long-winded to lug from town to town.