The World Awaits: How to Travel Far and Well
Product DescriptionThe World Awaits is your guide for planning an extended, independent, international journey. You’ll get practical information on visa requirements, web addresses, phone numbers, and more. Organized in three parts sequentially matched to the entire travel experience, The World Awaits also examines issues of goals, passports, shots, packing, budgeting, tickets, route planning, and life on the road. With The World Awaits, you’ll learn just how much travel can inspire, . . . More >>
The World Awaits: How to Travel Far and Well
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This book is aboslutely worthless, unless you’re totally clueless and have never ventured over 20 miles from your place of birth.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’m so glad there are books like this, The World Awaits, that tell you and try to show you how to travel overseas.
In fact, my greatest discovery overseas is that: “Beyond North America, the social climate is INFINITELY more natural and free flowing, and I am NEVER without attractive female companionship. ”
This book though, only gets into a few reasons for international life, 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’ 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?
Thus, I’ve volunteered to become the first to address the deep “WHY” reasons and put together a website and ebook called Happier Abroad at http://www. happierabroad. com to help inspire people to pursue international living, dating and traveling, and cultivate an awareness of the positive benefits overseas unknown to most Americans, who instead are living in fear and isolation perpetuated by the US media and culture which tells them that there is nothing good outside the US and that you are empty inside and need to work and consume to fill that emptiness. It’s a soulless life lacking connectedness with others and inner life.
Check it out. It’ll give you a whole new dimension on life.
Thanks for reading this review.
Sincerely,
Winston
Rating: 4 / 5
. . . because I do not think that is going to happen. I have only NOT finished one other book in my life, but I really did not see any point in spending more time reading past the 3/4 mark of this guide. I did try!
In all fairness to the author, I do not know what I really expected from this book. I read the reviews and thought I would give it a try, though I am usually not one to seek instruction on undertakings as individually-tailored as travel. I like the idea of “threading,” but the idea hardly seems novel; one only has to travel once to understand that the journey is measured as much by the travel between destinations as in the places themselves. Aside from this common ground, I find little of the author’s advice useful. If you are really going to be doing the kind of cultural trekking that the author describes, you would probably be best to think through your own plan instead and “situationalize” what could happen on your particular route and your plans.
This book may be good for someone who calls a one-week stay in a Las Vegas hotel a vacation. Besides that, I see little difference between the wisened “threader” and the jet-bound traveller who only hits major cities in his/her travels – both are engaged in an experience of going and doing, in their own ways, and not so much about being in a place.
Rating: 2 / 5
Doesn’t truly catch your attention. I’ve read 4 other world travel books and am only halfway through this one. Kind of rambles on and isn’t writtent o be catchy. Go with Vagabonding by Rolf Potts and/or Rough Guides: First Time Around the World for better writting and inspiration.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’m planning a trip around the world and this book told me everything i needed to know. From visas to local bargaining advise its all here. Although Mr. Otteson stresses the importants of traveling light, i’ll make room for his book.
Rating: 5 / 5