Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Read, listen to and practise Mandarin with our comprehensive phrasebook and CD pack. Our best-selling Mandarin phrasebook gives you: * fast access to all the travel phrases you need * a 3500-word two-way dictionary * a mouth-watering menu decoder to help you order the right meal Understand the locals and be understood in practical, social and emergency situations with 375 key phrases on our Audio CD. From the comfort of your home, enrich your travel experience by learning key phrases and improving your pronunciation before your trip. Or simply transfer the MP3 files to your portable media device and listen and learn during your travels. Lonely Planet gets you to the heart of a place. Our job is to make amazing travel experiences happen. We visit the places we write about each and every edition. We never take freebies for positive coverage, so you can always rely on us to tell it like it is. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Anthony Garnaut, and Tim Lu. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)