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The splendor of the Caribbean and the pleasures of cruising make an unbeatable combination. Accessibility, good prices, superb weather, and variety make cruising the Caribbean an ideal vacation choice. This guide, based on the author's personal experience, shows you how to plan a carefree vacation at sea.(5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 368 pages, b&w photos, maps, icons)Amazon.com Review
If you're going to cruise the Caribbean, you need a guidebookfocusing on the ports of call, not weighing you down with options you won'thave time to explore. Kay Showker's guide gives cruise selection advice,provides information on 22 Caribbean cruise lines and 105 ships, thendelves into the eastern and southern Caribbean Islands, from Puerto Rico tothe San Blas Islands off Panama. For each of the 30 islands, Showker gives"Fast Facts" of population, size, government, currency, language, holidays,and telephone codes. She profiles island transportation, shore excursions,walking and driving tours, shopping, snorkeling, and dining options,nightlife, sports, and highlights--in short, all you'll need to know. ... Read more

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Handy Guide to the Caribbean
This guide is useful for a vacation on a cruise to the caribbean.The reviews of the excursions are very helpful for planning your own excursions.It tells you if it easy or difficult to use ship's excursions versus your own transportation.It also highlights popular atractions ineach port. ... Read more

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Dr. Louis Jilek-Aall recounts in vivid detail her experiences as a bush doctor in Tanzania in 1959. Her poignant stories recount her frustration and helplessness in the face of cultural superstitions and the suspicions of the medicine men, her joy as she learned the language and came to understand the people, but also heartbreak when sometimes there was nothing she could do to help.Dr.Jilek-Aall's discovery of outcasts in the Mahenge mountains who suffered from kifafa, a severe form of epilepsy, spurred her to found a clinic to treat these patients and to educate their families and others about the disease. As a result they were able to return to their homes and be accepted into their communities.Fifty years later, Dr. Jilek-Aall still works to support the clinic and to initiate research into the causes of this prevalent disease."Reading through the chapters is like looking through a shifting kaleidoscope; each chapter throws up a distinctive, jewel-like image of her remarkably variegated experience. This is a very readable and thoroughly honest book. It is highly recommended."-Professor Raimond Prince, MDMcGill University, Montreal, Canada ... Read more