Russia Guide book

I know, these questions about guide books are boring for most people but in this case I had to ask. Well, the LP one is kind of old now, has anybody contacted lately LP on a 2008 release? Now, don't know if I searched well (think I did) but FP (Footprint) or RG (Rough guides) don't seem to have a "young" Russia book either, is there any other one that can be recommended and that is 2007 at least? Thanks.

MK

Marrakesh to Cairo overland
Istanbul to Beijing overland, the Silk Road
Beijing to Delhi overland
Istanbul to Cairo overland

Several thoughts. I find that amazon often tells you if there is a new edition coming soon so that you can preorder it for delivery as soon as they receive their copies.

Also you might ask this question on the ALL about LP branch and you might try looking at the LP shop which often indicates which new titles are being released in the next several months.

BTW in the past, I have found it much faster to order directly from LP rather than wait until Amazon recieves their copies, inventories them and makes them available.

Ruth

I would suggest politely to the original poster that they consider this - by the time any LP guide becomes available, it's already arguably out of date. Restaurants and hostels that may have been open when the book was being written will have closed. There's nothing you can do about that. That's life and the reality of guidebooks. If the original poster just needs a guide on stuff to do, surely the existing LP guidebook is good enough for that. I still have a copy of the ancient (2001 I think) guide to Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and it certainly was good enough years later just to give ideas on things to do in various Ukrainian towns.

Rough Guides makes various books for various countries, but they don't have a "young" anything series as far as I know. Their guidebooks are comparable to LP's and I have bought both. LPs are better for some countries and Rough Guides are better for others. I have found as a very general rule though that LP has better maps, but Rough Guides tends to have better coverage of smaller cities.

all biased english only readers are of course at a disadvantage. of coruse there are later guidebooks, but in other lnaguages. and changes in Rossye are in fact not that fast/many in regard to the travellers-facts. Yes, those posh very expensive local jet-set restauarants in Mockba open/close in a whim, but the budget mnded LP reader cannot afford those anyway.

It's not about posh places that come and go. It's just the generally very low quality of whatever info that's already in there, from getting to downtown Moscow from various airports to history or geography. And I'm not even talking about things or places that are missing.