Make your passion your profession... ...pack a pen with your passport, craft prose that flows and become a Travel Writer. Written by established travel writers and bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide is a must for anyone who has ever yearned to turn their travels into saleable tales. Being a travel writer is a dream job – with this guide you’re scribbling distance from the reality. Discover: The secrets of a great story The best ways to research What makes a winning pitch How to get your name in print Quirks of writing for newspapers, magazines, Web &amp; books Extensive writers’ resources &amp; industry organizations

Lonely Planet Guide To Travel Writing

Charlotte Hindle

David Else

Janet Austin

Don, George

Literature & Fiction

Lonely Planet

Fancy a year out between school and further studies? Thinking of letting the rat-race wait? You need The Gap Year Book - a definitive, practical guide to planning and taking a year out. Packed with essential advice on pre-trip preparation and planning, the inside track on when and where to go, and numerous ideas on what to do, this book is a one-stop gap year shop. Want to try yacht crewing? Fancy a stab at volunteering? Raring to go on a conservation project? We'll tell you how to organise all this and more, all you need now is your plane ticket! - full-colour world map showing gap year routes - tried and tested itineraries from real gappers - contact details for all the gap year placement companies and organisations - access to dedicated gap year discussion forum on lonelyplanet.com's Thorn Tree - Impressive breadth and depth of information supplied in a readable and entertaining way - information on the best courses to take and how to apply for jobs - quotes and tales from real gappers who've been there and done it - how to stay healthy away from home - 28,195 accepted university applicants deferred entry to take a gap year in 2002 (UCAS) - There are currently over 1,800,000 students following higher education programmes (NUSSL) - Average age of students is 16-25 (nusonline. co.uk) - Individual student spend is approximately [pound]5,535 pa - Average student spends [pound]524 p.a on travel (NUSSL) - Nearly a quarter do not buy holiday insurance (National Express) - 93 percent of higher education students in the UK have internet access (NOP research 2000)

Lonely Planet Gap Year Book

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 &amp; Industry experts •Gap-Year planners &amp; round-the-world routes •Regional Maps &amp; tried-and-tested itineraries •Hundreds of Gap-year organizations &amp; essential resources

Lonely Planet The Gap Year Book

Travel

Andrew Dean Nystrom

Joe Bindloss

Reference

Lonely Planet Volunteer: A Traveler's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World

Korina Miller

Nate Cavalieri

Rachel Collinson

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