Customer Reviews

How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling (Travelers' Tales Guides)

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Looking for a book on squat toilets, getting the runs, and getting the runs while using a rough squat toilet? Not the best mealtime read, but good preparation for what the road throws at you. There's a wealth of info on eating right, drinking right, the risks of seafood, and keeping the little ones healthy. The differentiating factor for this book though is it doesn't stop there. Where else can you get a whole chapter on toilet paper and the lack thereof, bathing in a stream, or what to do when it's that time of the month and you're on a mountain ascent?

Throughout the book there are short snippets from doctors, from aid workers, and from others with life experience combating nasty bugs and diseases. If you're a parent wanting to make sure your about-to-leave child knows how to keep healthy, or you're the type who likes to be ready for anything, this is a valuable book. Anyone about to go off on a long-term volunteer assignment in a rural environment should make room for it in the pack.

If you've ever had any gastro issues then you'll enjoy this book, especially if you travel abroad. Of course there are areas of the U.S. that are like third world countries. Good entertainment value, but solid and useful info too. I'd recommend it.

This is a very interesting book written by a physician. The advice is sound and many of the anecdotes are laugh out loud. My favorite was the one about the ziggurat of colonic filth

I'm a typical middle-class US urban-dweller. I tend to take for granted our plumbing and sanitation systems, even though I remember my childhood stays on my grandparents' farm: outhouse, hand-pumped water, and all.

Therefore, I need the information in this book, and I'm delighted that it's so well written. So far, my world travels have been mostly in developed countries. But I hope to travel more extensively in the future, and I'll consult this book before each trip.

It's easy and fun to read, and the information just might save your vacation - if not your life. Highly recommended.

On second thought, I think the title fits!

I read my library's copy. As the librarian was scanning it, he paused and did a double-take. "Yes," I said, slightly embarrassed.

I'm halfway through the book and I'm sure it's still going to earn those five stars. It is soooooo funnnnny...

It's packed with sensible advice and I like sensible. It moved me so much that I bought, for the first time in my life, Tincture of Iodine (CVS doesn't carry Iodine tablets), Vitamin C, teabags, etc. Although I'm not trekking to Kathmandu, I'm still going to visit an unknown quantity (Ukraine). I was toying with the idea of visiting Chernobyl but I'll reserve that for the next trip.

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I have my own copy of this book and purchased two for my friends. It is full of wonderful information on the food you consume to symptoms for common traveler's woes. Every world traveler should have one ... such a shame that it is out of print.