Culture Shock! Venezuela

by Kitt Baguley

Culture Shock adds two new At Your Door city lifestyle guides and one new country guide. The release of more Revised and Expanded Culture Shock country editions continues with thirty-one now... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558685014
• ISBN13: 9781558685017
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

PERFECT ACCOUNT

If you are planning on visiting Venezuela or if you are just interested in finding out about the Venezuelan culture, I would reccomend this book to you. It is a perfect account of what my experience was like. However, if you are a wild spirit and you wish to have an untainted experience of the country...then I would not reccomend this book to you. Because it is so accurate, it might spoil the fun of your adventure. I enjoyed this book very much. It helped me to understand the people and why they are how they are.

I wish I'd seen it earlier

I spent eight months teaching English in Caracas two years ago. I spent nearly as much time trying to find a guide to the country that would tell me what I needed to know as a foreigner. I picked up this book out of curiosity and perhaps out of snobbery... I had been there, so what could a mere book tell me? I was wrong. I learnt a lot and found myself smiling in agreement at some of the situations it described as I had been through them myself. While I could have done without the history section, the rest of it was right on the button. An excellent guide to a country that is very alien to a Northern European person like myself. Excellent.

A Great Guide to Life InVenezuela

Culture Shock! Venezuela is an informative,enjoyable, well-written and extremely useful guide for anyone visiting Venezuela. Although I had already spent 9 months in Spain I needed to know about life in Venezuela and this book told me maynt things I needed to know. I impressed the Venezuelans I stayed with and their friends with the knowledge I picked up from this book and was warned about some of the downsides of the country. Overall a fine introduction to anyone visiting Venezuela.