Bangladesh Travel Guide (Bradt) - Explore Culture, Nature & Adventure | Perfect for Backpackers & Tourists

As other reviewers have noted over the last couple of years when it comes to Bangladesh the Bradt guides are superior to the Lonely Planet series (and I say that as someone who tends to buy LP books).Having owned the previous edition of this guidebook I can tell you that a lot of the information is essentially the same but there have also been a range of updates - as one would hope to see. The book itself would be highly useful to expats as well as tourists and sections of it are certainly aimed at those who for whatever reason are going to be spending a lot of time in Bangladesh.The format is fairly standard - there are history and culture sections up front and there are all the hum-drum bits of information you'll need like money and ATM issues. The body of the work itself is organised in regions, a lot of time is spent on the transport side of things, accommodation in different places is also discussed in depth and obviously a lot of time was spent actually getting out there into these towns and finding out what there was to do there. You can feel the time taken to research this book seeping out of the text.I've no idea if putting out a guide book to Bangladesh is a financially viable prospect for any of the various competing guidebook publishing houses. But this seems to be a well researched one, so I hope they make their money back on it and that it encourages them to keep up the good work.