Wednesday, January 11, 2006

In which book research is commenced, SJ having arrived at the end of the internet

Tonight I realised that there is no point in reading the same Web sites over and over again (this, for example, is an old favourite which I must have trawled through half a dozen times), so I went to the Public Library in Gloucester Street and withdrew twenty books, namely:

Wild Planet! 1,001 Extraordinaryy Events for the Inspired traveler
The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental travel
Outward Bound Backpacker's Handbook
The World at your Feet; a traveller's guide for women in mid-life and beyond
Vagabonding; an uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel
The Big OE; tales from New Zealand travellers
Beyond Backpacking; Ray Jardine's guide to lightweight hiking
The Backpacker's Bible; your essential guide to round-the-world travel
The Adventurous Traveller; the one-stop guide to travel with a challenge
Going Solo; the essential guide for solo women travellers
The Rough Guide to Scandinavia; Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland
Handbook for Women Travellers
Camping's Forgotten Skills; backwoods tips from a boundary water guide
The Modern Backpacker's Handbook; an environmental guide
The Clumsiest People in Europe, or, Mrs Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World
Culture Shock! Successful Travelling Abroad
The Practical nomad; how to travel around the world
Live, Work and Playt around the World; for young New Zealanders
Faroe Islands; the Bradt Travel Guide
Lonely Planet; Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands


So, tonight will be spent on my bed, with a globe and my old atlas, and a 1B5 exericse book and pen, and all these books, planning! Such larks!

Posted from: Christchurch, New Zealand
The time is: 8:55pm
The weather is: Hot, clouded over
Number of countries visited to date: Zero.

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