TRAVELLERS HANDBOOK (8th ed)

This traveller's handbook contains a combination of advice from top travellers, reflections from celebrities and a comprehensive factual directory.

Fully updated and restructured, it retains the best writers from the last 20 years as well as articles by more recent big names.

The travel writers include Michael Palin, Chris Bonington, Ranulph Fiennes, Dervla Murphy, Chris Martin, David Bellamy, Benedict Allen, Clive Anderson, John Blashford-Snell, Robin Knox-Johnston, Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Nicholas Crane, George Monbiot and Hilary Bradt.The book contains a range of topics on independent travel with gobal coverage of information for travellers of all ages, from first-timers to frequent flyers.

It includes information on business travel including the best websites for the electronic traveller working abroad.

Expanded country profiles cover the whole world and the whole range of ways to travel, and the latest trends are highlighted - where to go, extreme sports, eco-tourism and charity challenges.