Lonely Planet The Gap Year Book (General Reference) [Paperback]

Joe Bindloss (Author), Charlotte Hindle (Author), Andrew Dean Nystrom (Author)

Book Description

Series: General Reference | Publication Date: July 1, 2005

Given the choice between stressful exams or job interviews and the endless white sand of an Australian beach, what would you choose?

•Be the first in your family to go around the world
•Swim with dolphins off the coast of New Zealand
•Teach children English in India
•Build pit latrines in Burkina Faso
•Raft the Zambezi, the hardest rapid in the world
•Tend baby jaguars in Bolivia
•Watch the sun set over Uluru (Ayers Rock)
•Learn Spanish in Guatemala
•Repatriate wild horses in Mongolia
•Work a ski season in the Alps
•Study film in New York

The Gap Year Book is your ticket to all this and more.

Also Includes

•Free wall map of the world
•Essential pre-trip planning: health, safety, kit, costs, tickets, etc.
•Advice from Gappers & Industry experts
•Gap-Year planners & round-the-world routes
•Regional Maps & tried-and-tested itineraries
•Hundreds of Gap-year organizations & essential resources

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…Lonely Planet for honesty, history, irreverence and budget.' --Esquire

Product Details

• Paperback: 470 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet; Pap/Map edition (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1740598652
• ISBN-13: 978-1740598651
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #898,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More Education Gaps, May 29, 2007

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Kay L. Campbell (Huntsville, Alabama) - See all my reviews
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Great fun to read, and studded with first-person "how I did it" notes from, I presume, Real Students. Once again, the English viewpoint, but still with lists, accounts and ideas that would be useful to U.S. students thinking of engineering an educational year on the lam from college.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DREAM WITH IT, April 20, 2006

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Andrea Bonanomi (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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I am a traveler. I never took a "gap year" but during my backpacking trips I met a lot of "gappers" ... and I have to say that this book (which was a gift) is making me dream to take a GAP YEAR ... and on top of that there are really a lot of very good practical tips. Bottom line ... if you like to backpack ... read this book ... it will make you dream even if you are in a basement w/o windows of KANSAS CITY ... :D