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The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward Hasbrouck
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 430148
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 620
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1566918286
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.202
EAN: 9781566918282
ASIN: 1566918286
Publication Date: September 28, 2007
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Amazon.com Review
Many dream of traveling the world, but few actually do so. If you've decided to put your money where your fantasy is and save for the trip of trips, Edward Hasbrouck is your travel guru. He's circumnavigated the world twice, and coordinates a travel agent's around-the-world department. He explains why you ought to chose (and stick to) your route in advance but needn't start and finish in the same city, and above all why you ought to take the travel plunge. He shares hard-won truths about saving money--and in Thailand or Bali $100 saved earns an extra month of freedom.
Product Description
The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World provides a global perspective that’s necessary for both first-time trekkers as well as experienced explorers. Now more than ever, it is important to understand other cultures, and Edward Hasbrouck’s guide makes the ever-changing world more accessible. This fully updated and expanded fourth edition of The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World includes information on new airport security procedures, travel documents, entry requirements, and border crossings, tips on airline tickets and how to find the best deals without getting ripped off, advice on choosing destinations, routes, and traveling companions, and how to make the time and money for extended travel.
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 Essential for any library catering to travelers and wannabe adventurers November 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The 4th updated edition of THE PRACTICAL NOMAD: HOW TO TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD comes from a former travel agent and veteran travel writer who offers the 'bible' of world travel. From choosing destinations and travel companions to getting the time and money for extended world roaming, understanding border crossings and entry requirements, and using print and online travel resources, this provides a set of first-hand and professional recommendations key to any successful nomadic adventure and essential for any library catering to travelers and wannabe adventurers.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
 Good how-to guide, but incomplete, does not list benefits and reasons February 19, 2008
This book though, only gets into a few reasons for exploring the world, describing only a few benefits that are at the tip of the iceberg. The rest if mostly a how-to guide that covers some practical aspects of it. So far, there hasn't been a book that addresses all the deep real life reasons for living overseas. In short, it talks only about the HOW of expatriation, not the WHY. And shouldn't the WHY be dealt with first? That's what all these authors seem to be missing, except for me. Perhaps the "WHY" reasons are taboo?
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 waaaaaayyyy too much information July 20, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is exhaustive to the point of being exhausting - and as such isn't really useful for anyone who's traveled at least once overseas. The book is divided into sections on choosing destinations, surface transportation (100 pages!), air transportion (140 pages!), travel docs, safety and health, baggage, practicalities, the bottom line, and resources. Some of the information was useful - such on how to take advantage of open jaw airline tickets - but so much of it is a rehash of what every traveler knows. I mean, I didn't need to pay $22 to learn that I should use a credit card when making travel plans.
For the novice - anyone else, pass on this one.
Excellent Resource for Around the World Travel April 19, 2006
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
My husband and I are currently traveling through Asia and used Edward Hasbrouck's book in preparation for our trip. It is a comprehensive book, that explores every aspect of around the world travel. He covers everything you need to know and more, from preparation of paperwork to interacting with people along the way. He is a expert in this field -- one of the best, and he generously shares his knowledge in this book. Travelers are fortunate to have such expertise in their hands, what it would take years for an individual to acquire is shared here. His compilation of fact and opinion is well-balanced. He also includes an excellent resource section, with many books and websites for further research. Starting your research with this book will save you a lot of time and effort -- it's all right here.
Best Practical Planning Book For Long-Term Travel April 10, 2006
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
I am planning a year-long, around-the-world trip, and The Practical Nomad is by far the most useful of the many books I have read.
The book is not for casual readers who are looking for the next A Year in Provence. The book is dense and fact-filled, a result of the author's twenty years of experience as a round-the-world travel consultant. The section on airline ticket pricing is as challenging as any text I read in law school -- and more rewarding. _Every_ travel topic is covered.
Several of the Amazon reviews complain about the author's politics. Even though I disagree with almost all of the author's political opinions, his views add color and coherence to the book; they are candidly disclosed and never intrusive.
This is a book about long-term travel by a factual pack rat who has done it himself and has helped thousands of others take their dream trip. If you plan to engage in independent travel for more than one month, you should certainly buy this book.
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