- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Warwick Publishing (27 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1894020855
- ISBN-13: 978-1894020855
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,491,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The author really was offered dried lizard-on-a-stick, in China! Not to mention antelope head stew in Mozambique, and hedgehog's hidnums (whatever they are!). If you are a vegetarian who enjoys travel, you will know the perils of ordering something which sounds good on a menu, but...The Vegetarian Traveller is the world's first guidebook to the words and phrases needed to order vegetarian food in over 200 countries worldwide.
From the Author
A Guidebook and Phrasebook for Vegetarian Travelers
"The Vegetarian Traveler: A Guide To Eating Green in Over 200 Countries" enables traveling vegetarians to make their dietary desires known in virtually any country on the planet. I began researching and writing this book because of my desire to communicate my eating preferences while traveling and my frustration with the limitations of standard phrasebooks. Each country listing in the book features a general description of the types of food a visiting vegetarian might expect to find in that country as a whole and, where relevant, in particular regions. It then provides a list of words and fill-in-the-blank phrases, together with phonetic pronunciations, in the main language or languages of the country. I have included phrases in over 110 languages. The list is broad enough to allow vegans or strict vegetarians, ovo-lacto vegetarians, pesco-vegetarians, and even "vegetarians" who avoid only red meat to order their preferred food. My goal is not to make the us! er sound like a native speaker, or to replace standard phrasebooks entirely, but simply to allow a vegetarian to get the point across. It is my hope that "Speaking Vegetarian" will allow vegetarians to travel more easily, more comfortably, and without offending their well-meaning hosts. Happy travels. Please note that the "The Vegetarian Traveler" is a revised and expanded version of the book originally published by a different publisher under the name "Speaking Vegetarian."
"The Vegetarian Traveler: A Guide To Eating Green in Over 200 Countries" enables traveling vegetarians to make their dietary desires known in virtually any country on the planet. I began researching and writing this book because of my desire to communicate my eating preferences while traveling and my frustration with the limitations of standard phrasebooks. Each country listing in the book features a general description of the types of food a visiting vegetarian might expect to find in that country as a whole and, where relevant, in particular regions. It then provides a list of words and fill-in-the-blank phrases, together with phonetic pronunciations, in the main language or languages of the country. I have included phrases in over 110 languages. The list is broad enough to allow vegans or strict vegetarians, ovo-lacto vegetarians, pesco-vegetarians, and even "vegetarians" who avoid only red meat to order their preferred food. My goal is not to make the us! er sound like a native speaker, or to replace standard phrasebooks entirely, but simply to allow a vegetarian to get the point across. It is my hope that "Speaking Vegetarian" will allow vegetarians to travel more easily, more comfortably, and without offending their well-meaning hosts. Happy travels. Please note that the "The Vegetarian Traveler" is a revised and expanded version of the book originally published by a different publisher under the name "Speaking Vegetarian."
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A good general guide but no enough detail,
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This review is from: The Vegetarian Traveller: A Guide to Eating Green in Over 200 Countries (Paperback)
When I saw this book I thought brilliant that is just the thing I need! It does cover a massive amount of countries and has a small description of what to expect when you get there. But it is lacking in many ways too, If they had settled on not covering quite so many countries (like most of the African languages and including a section on the Vatican city!) it could have concentrated on more useful information that is needed. It is all very well saying "I am vegetarian and don't eat meat of fish". Some places in the world still don't understand what you mean. You need to know the words for different types of veg and also meats so you can avoid them if talking to a waiter or looking at a menu. for example Ham or Sea food which in my experience is often in countries which don't know about vegi's are considered not meat or fish.
But if you are going on a massive world tour and visiting every place under the sun it would be very useful. but if you are going to one or two countries I would advise just getting a pharse book for those places
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3.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Good for General Background and Guidance,
By David Light - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Vegetarian Traveller: A Guide to Eating Green in Over 200 Countries (Paperback)
The ideal vegetarian travel book has yet to be written. Vegetarian travel books seem to fall into one of two camps: The destination-oriented guide (e.g., these are places you can eat, sleep, etc. if you are vegetarian or vegan), and the broad guidebook/phrasebook (e.g., a phrasebook giving veggie phrases in various languages a set of flashcards for vegetarians and vegans covering major languages; a Vegan phrasebook that may only be available in the UK; etc.). Each of these types has its limitations. This book is one of the latter.I actually found this book very useful and informative and(surprisingly) funny. The author purports to include virtually every country in the world, and while I can think of a few that aren't in there (e.g., the Falkland Islands--probably not very vegetarian-friendly in any case), he comes pretty close to that ideal. And he includes phrases in something over 100 languages. Some people might view this as overkill, but it is one of the strengths of the book. Basically, the author discusses the veggie situation in each country in a general way; there are NO extensive lists of common vegetarian dishes or of vegetarian-friendly restaurants/hotels (look to the destination-oriented-type guide for these), then gives a list of mix-'n'-match phrases in that country's language("I would like something without X, I eat Y," for example) with the pronunciation spelled out. This book may not be necessary for, say, Western Europe--although it couldn't hurt to take it along or rip out the relevant pages--because many new phrasebooks for European travel have at least one or two token vegetarian phrases (e.g., "I do not eat meat."). Some are better than others. But for other areas of the world, especially Africa and Asia, this would be really handy to have. He includes languages for which I've never seen phrasebooks--has anyone even heard of "Bambara-Dioula"?--and that is the really valuable thing about this book. I am not aware of any other vegetarian guide with this scope. And that is a weakness of the book, too: Because the author has included so many countries and languages, he doesn't devote huge amounts of coverage to any of them, although the descriptions can be fairly comprehensive. But it's hard to see how he could do otherwise without turning the book into a massive tome. Perhaps separate volumes for each continent? Other changes I'd like to see are the inclusion of other forms of writing for non-Roman script languages (so one could point and order rather than going through the phonentic pronunciation), and also the inclusion of more terms. (The book pretty consistently lists the words for meat, chicken, fish, eggs, and cheese, but not "meat stock," "dairy products," etc.) I'd also like to see this and other vegetarian/vegan phrasebooks list the phrase for "I am allergic to ____", which is a good way to get out of otherwise awkward social situations. I give this five stars not so much because it's perfect (it's not), but because there aren't really any other books like this out there and a lot of this stuff is not available on the Web. 5 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too scattered to be helpful.,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Vegetarian Traveller: A Guide to Eating Green in Over 200 Countries (Paperback)
This book is fairly worthless. It describes how to order vegetarian food in about 30 or 40 languages. Never gets in-depth with any. It really doesn't tell you much about any particular region. I can't believe it doesn't have the same title as his other book. I was really disappointed in this book. Pass. 2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Do more research before you write a book, Bryan Geon.,
By "littlelentil" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Vegetarian Traveller: A Guide to Eating Green in Over 200 Countries (Paperback)
It seems as if the author did not always have good first-hand source to write this book and wrote this guide from generalizations about other countries. For example, a supermarket in Japan carries almost anything you would find in a supermarket here. Convenience stores like Seven-Eleven are even more convenient than you think for the variety of prepared food available. Oh, there are a lot of decent bakeries too, which Mr. Geon fails to mention. Even though I can't really tell how useful this book is because I have never been to many foreign countries, I can tell you at least some of the information in this book is misleading. |
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