A travel guide for individuals who want to make a difference in the world looks at a wide variety of global volunteer opportunities, covering formal, long-term, and short-term assignments with a variety of volunteer organizations; offers tips on how to plan, raise funds for, and implement a personal volunteer experience; reviews volunteer organizations; and shares others' personal experiences. Original.

Product Description: 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 YorkThe Gap Year Book is your ticket to all this and more...read more

Product Description: Stop daydreaming at your desk, ditch the nine to five, say ciao to the rat race – take life by the scruff of the neck and give it a shake! Whether you want to pen a novel, gawp at migrating wildebeest, row the Atlantic or relax on a Goan beach, The Career Break Book is the guide for you...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

A guide to the countries on the northern shores of the Mediterranean, plus Tunisia and Morocco, includes tips on travel, accommodations, restaurants, and sightseeing