Travel envelope made from recycled leather. This leather is produced from ground down leather scraps that are a by-product of leather manufacturing. It retains most of the properties of regular leather & it will maintain its beauty for many years. The leather envelope features 5 small pockets for credit or business cards, long pockets for currency, & with a pen loop inside, it is the one-stop organiser for travel on the go, the ideal companion to take on your trip to help you organise your travel documents in style. The side pockets feature alongside the compartment to hold the passport cover firmly in place, as well as a long pockets for boarding passes for easy access. Available in different colors. ...

The rewards you can reap from exploring this amazing planet are incalculable. Every year, more & more of us are discovering the joy, the excitement, the sheer sense of adventure in roaming the world. But travelling, particularly to the more remote & volatile corners of the globe, can be a dangerous business. If you don`t prepare properly
- by looking for potential hazards & learning how best to deal with them
- you may wish you`d never started out. Written by international security expert Lloyd Figgins, using his experience of over 80 countries, The Travel Survival Guide is a unique new travel guide & essential reading for anyone planning an overseas trip, whether on business, as a tourist or gap-year traveller. If you want no-nonsense, easy-to-follow, practical advice on how to recognise the warning signs, how to prevent problems & cope with emergencies (should they occur), this is the book for you.

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This 30cm diameter blue ocean globe with full raised-relief is a great tool for school & college students. The smoke black high-quality plastic base & semi-meridian are scratch resistant & extremely durable. Young adults will appreciate the detailed legend & easy to distinguish political boundaries as they try to understand the world`s current events.30cm (12”) diameter globe• Great tool for school & college students• Major mountain ranges in raised relief• Highly durable scratch resistant plastic base• Detailed up-to-date cartography• Made in the UK ...

Will Rhodes is an award-winning correspondent for The Travelers, on assignment at a luxury Argentinian resort
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The Traveller of the Century is an original & ambitious experiment
- a work that invites us to look at the nineteenth century
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Hilary Bradt, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy & Simon Calder are just some of the contributors to this mighty volume, now in its 12th edition. If you haven't even thought where you might go the introduction to this book offers advice on where to go & how to begin to find out more information. If you already know where you are going then there is information on how to get there, by truck, by motor bike & even by microlight!

Includes:: basic advice on health & safety & a section on what to do when things go wrong, from petty theft to hijacks & civil wars.A listing section devotes a double page spread to every country detailing festival dates, embassy addresses, population make up, economies, food, drink, shopping & much more. Each country also has a highlight guide of the best things to see & do while you're there. The lisitings also recommend reading material & the best shops to go to to get all those necessary accessories. It's a book like no other
- indispensible when requiring inspiration or stopping perspiration. Edited by Amy Sohanpaul, James Innes Williams & Duncan Mills.I know of no single volume that packs so much travel advice between two covers & yet still weighs the same as a water bottle. Michael Palin


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When you are planning to go travelling, you may have tick-lists as long as your arm, or not have a clue where to start. The Traveller's Pocket Bible is perfect for the enthusiastic traveller, & provides everything you could possibly need to know, to save you time routing through the internet or out-of-date travel books. The information

Includes:: advice on packing, culture, customs & etiquette, how to minimise your impact, health & security, money, travelling with children, & even taking your pet with you. There is a quick guide to the top 20 destinations, giving an overview of the countries widely travelled to. Practical information that you will need to access quickly, such as timelines, conversions, electricity usage, emergency phrase books & telephone numbers are provided in this pocket-sized guide.

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This attractive, handy pocket book contains an unputdownable assortment of facts "es, anecdotes & tall tales about the history & mystery of international travel. Find out when the first passport was granted (in 1414!), in which country it is considered extremely rude to sit with the soles of your feet facing your companions, how to say hello in twenty different languages, which pilgrim route has a scallop shell as its symbol, how to master the Japanese art of packing a rucksack, & which cities to avoid if you don't want to experience an earthquake. ...

Traveller – Observations from an American in Exile, featuring an introduction by Michael Palin, is a collection of letters, journal entries & photographs from Michael Katakis, writer & photographer, written during a self imposed exile. The book provides an insight into the author`s point of view of the world & his own past. His observations are delivered with great immediacy & humanity as his words on paper depict the reality of the conditions of the people he meets & places he visits & inspire him. Whether it is joy, wonder or horror, he enriches his annotation with insightful history taking the reader across country & through time, from Sierra Leone in 1988 to Paris in 2004. Essentially, Traveller is a collection of sympathetic reflections on the complex world around us, political in many places & is sure to inspire similar powerful observations. ...

The Traveller`s Daybook, A Tour of the World in 366"ations, edited by Fergus Fleming & published by Atlantic Books, provides a really interesting, well-chosen anthology of travel-related writing covering a wide range of topics & locations. Arranged with usually one page per day including the 29th February, the extracts range from the works of the giants of travel writing
- Newby, Thesiger or Leigh-Fermor, to famous writers – Goethe, Chekhov or Orwell, explorers including Nansen, Amundsen & Scott, rulers from Justinian to Mussolini & beyond, philosophers, journalists & many others. The book offers a fascinating sample of travel writing, journalistic reporting, diaries, etc, full of interesting observation & comments, & provides an excellent springboard for better acquaintance with the work of many of its contributors.A well-arranged index enables the reader to look up the entries not only by author but also by location or subject.
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