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Edward Hasbrouck (Author)

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Publication Date: 3 Nov 2011 | Series: Practical Nomad

"The Practical Nomad" provides a global perspective that's necessary whether you're a first-time trekker or an experienced explorer. Now more than ever it is important to understand other cultures, and Edward Hasbrouck's guide makes the ever-changing world more accessible.
The fully updated fifth 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
How to get the time and money for extended travel

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The fully updated fifth 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
How to get the time and money for extended travel

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Paperback: 600 pages
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 5th edition (3 Nov 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1598808885
ISBN-13: 978-1598808889
Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 3.3 x 21.1 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,011,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"The Practical Nomad is the most useful and comprehensive book available for planning an extended international trip." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Award-winning travel journalist, author, blogger, and consumer advocate Edward Hasbrouck is a leading expert on around-the-world travel, with a background that includes 15 years of experience as a travel agent specializing in around-the-world airfares. Since its first edition in 1997, "The Practical Nomad" has been heralded as the definitive guide for independent international travelers.
Edward's most recent trip around the world to update the 5th edition of "The Practical Nomad" lasted more than a year and covered more than 80,000 miles through 28 countries on 6 continents. Edward has traveled by foot, bicycle, train, bus, boat, car, taxi, rickshaw, donkey cart, and airplane, and has stayed in hostels, bed-and-breakfasts, homestays, rental apartments, hotels, and motels large and small, urban and rural, rudimentary and luxurious.
Edward has been seen on CNN and BBC television, heard on NPR, and quoted everywhere from "The New York Times" and "Wall Street Journal" to "Aviation Week" and "Scientific American." He has spoken at venues in the United States, Canada, and overseas ranging from hostels and university campuses to the headquarters of the National Geographic Society, and has testified on travel issues before legislatures in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Edward is an avid traveler, bicyclist, and peace activist, and a member of Bay Area Travel Writers, the National Writers Union, the National Association of Railroad Passengers, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Tourism Concern, Ethical Traveler, and the War Resisters League. In addition to writing, he works with the Identity Project on travel-related civil liberties and human rights issues.

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars The Obvious Nomad 16 Jan 2003

By Sam Wane

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I liked the sound of this book as we are considering travelling the world and have done a bit of travelling already. I wasn't impressed, it is a purely factual book stating the obvious and written for the American market, 85% of Americans don't hold a passport, need I say more?
It may be worth a cursory glance in a library shelf but not one to own.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great 26 Mar 2002

By Todd Adams - Published on Amazon.com

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I bought this book expecting to find something other than what it is. Instead of the subtitle "How to travel around the world" maybe it should have been subtitled "What you need to know before you travel around the world." The author is very knowledgable and the book offers a lot of valuable insight. It's been helpful for me planning my own global crossing. But not helpful in a pragmatic "here's what you need to do" kind of way. It was helpful in educating me about travel industry practices, paperwork preparation, and conditions in certain areas of the world.
However, I'm a bit dismayed by two aspects of the book. Hasbrouck seems to tout train travel on almost every page. He has a real love of trains I guess. He even said on one page that given the same distance (up to about 600 miles) he'd take the train over flying because, he says, they're more comfortable, the food is better, and you meet interesting people. Maybe my travel experience is vastly different than his, but I don't hold the same romantic fondness of trains. My experience has been they're a crowded, hot, time-consuming confinement with people that looked a bit sketchy. And I consider myself an adventurous traveler. I'm not one to watch the world from the bay window of a luxury cruise liner.
It also becomes annoying how the author seems to inject his political opinion into every page, almost every paragraph. He seems to editorialize on everything - capitalism, socialism, class bias, feminism, health and disease, food distribution, etc. I happen to agree with a lot of his opinion but to have it be so ubiquitous is droning.
Overall, this is a helpful book, probably one of the better ones out there for general around-the-world information. But if you're looking for the nuts and bolts "how to" information, find something else.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating but problematic 1 Jun 2001

By Marnen Laibow-Koser - Published on Amazon.com

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This book really intrigued me. I was hoping it would be just the thing for offbeat solo travelers such as myself. To some extent, it is: it contains much useful information and pithy anecdotes, and it's an enjoyable read. However, I can't help but feel that the research and editing are a bit slipshod -- pages and pages are devoted to relatively simple issues, while other topics that are at least as important get glossed over with a couple of sentences.

I question the quality of the information that's in the book, too. In the section on North American road travel, Hasbrouck states that the American Automobile Association's TourBooks are generally poor, while their CampBooks are generally excellent. In my own experience (including a 7-week, 12 000-mile trip from New York to Alaska), the reverse is so. Hasbrouck further claims that AAA's CampBooks are the only series of camping directories that cover all of the United States, when in fact there are several others (notably Woodall's). On my trip to Alaska, I had both AAA's and Woodall's directories with me, and Woodall's was more comprehensive almost everywhere.

I could cite other examples, but you get the idea. I really wanted to like this book, but it needs some more work before it lives up to its potential. Hasbrouck seems to know a lot about travel; if his research and editing skills were on a par with his knowledge, this would be a five-star book.

A final thought: judging from the anecdotes in the book, Hasbrouck has been all over the globe. Yet he himself says, "People who seem to have been everywhere generally haven't been anywhere long." Makes one wonder.

41 of 45 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars buy it for the airfare advice, but nothing else 27 July 1999

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I went ahead and bought both this book and World Stompers, and I think where one lacks, the other picks up. This book is incredibly boring and at times repetitive, but the travel agent's insight and explanation of how the international and domestic airline ticketing systems work is well worth the cost of the book. Also, I found some of the country information a bit outdated. For more nuts and bolts advice on how to get by as a backpacker on an RTW trip, as well as some helpfl and humorous anecdotes, read World Stompers instead.

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