Real information on what to do, geared more for the adventurer.Maps nothing special.Brief history coverage. No real prices, only "budget, moderate." Not a complete travel guide, but gives good ideas of what to do on the islands. Use this for some non-touristy sites and to do's, but buy more complete guide for hotels and car rentals, etc. Covers all islands, though not real detailed.

The photographs are excellent, sharing the Bahamian lifestyle with the viewer. For those that do in-depth research prior to their travels, this is informative covering history and major sites. Highly recommend for the interesting coverage of sites. Not detailed enough for the actual trip planning. Worth the purchase for those who want more then the basic go see this and go do that.

As a veteran of five trips to the Bahamas with my wife, I would recommend this book as an in depth detailed historical work about the Bahamas.

Many things in the book explain the modern make up of the Bahamas; such as English names from the American loyalists who arrived after the American Revolution and the mixed agricultural results which are still a problem today due to the difficulty of growing crops in very inhospitable soil.

As mentioned in the book they grow pineapples on Eluthera brought there by some displaced Germans. (We had some of these pineapples and they are wonderfully sweet)!

Unfortunatly the authors talk little about the Abacos which have at least as colorful a history as Eleuthera and I feel that is a minor negative. The coverge of the pirate era is very detailed and interesting while the records and descriptions of slavery paint a sad picture of that time.

More Talkin' Bahamian is a humorous, but information packed dictionary of local vernacular vocabulary of the Bahamas. It is interesting and useful if you hear Bahamian slang and want to know what it means. The definitions are arranged as in a lexicon with some special sections on rules for talking like a Bahamian and Bahamian proverbs and sayings.

I think the book would be much more helpful if there were a section to look up words in standard English to see the Bahamian equivalent that the non-Bahamian could be use as he/she spoke.

If you ever get around to shipping me this book, I will gladly review it.

We purchased this book in preparation for a family snorkeling trip to the Bahamas Out Islands. We don't scuba dive, so we were specifically looking for snorkeling information. Since this book includes "Snorkeling" in its title, we assumed there would be some specific snorkeling info included.

We were very disappointed as the entire book is devoted to dive-sites. Including "snorkeling" in the book title is, we feel, false advertising. I'm not sure the word snorkeling is ever used any where inside the book aside from the title page.

Even for dive information, the book falls short. For instance, there are no maps or directions to indicate approximately where the dive sites are located or how to get to them.

I would not recommend this book. There must be other more informative, more comprehensive books on the subject. I wish I had remembered to return the book to Amazon.com within the alloted time period. For our purposes, it was a waste of money.