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Complete Travel GuideDon't Worry, Go Traveling
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What card should you ne'er
leave house without? It's not the one you think.
It's the new Triple-A card-Attitude, Awareness and Attention tips, offered by authors Sheila Swan & Peter Laufer in their new book Safety & Safety for Women Who Travel. Where
you go, any you do, whoever you're with, no matter how far you stray from home, carry this card to prompt you to stay alert in your surroundings. Trust your intuition and instincts.
Swan and Laufer, earth travelers, help lay to rest fears as well as provide guidance for women to travel with confidence
anyplace
in the world. Safety & Safety for Women Who Travel offers specific and tested plan of action and techniques to help women travel safely and securely.
This book covers the basics and so more more. Find practical information on what to do:
Before you leave: pack a destination-specific medicine cabinet
En route: remember the brother system, find a companion on the plane or at the train station
Driving: lock your doors once
you get in the car as well as once
you get out of the car
Lodging: conceal your gender by registering at hotels with your last name and 1st initial only
Also find details just about more complex
issues, such as:
Money and scams: guard your PIN cautiously as phone card thieves use binoculars
Dealing with officials: do not carry things that can be taken as amerciable or threatening
When a threat is real: noise is effective; practice screaming before you leave house
In all aspects of travel there is an element of risk which can be reduced with attention, attitude and awareness. Safety & Safety for Women Who Travel contains unforgettable
anecdotes as well as tips and wisdom. It wish empower the most timid and most seasoned woman traveler.
About the Author
Sheila Swan Laufer has been traveling the earth for fun and business since the 1960's. From encampment in Latin America to luxury resorts in the Old World, from long-distance buses across the American South to first-class aeroplane seats five miles high, from quaint pensions on the Land Land to five-star hotels in Oceana, she has full-fledged the extremes travel offers-taking notes all on
the way.
Peter Laufer is an award-winning journalist whose career has taken him to galore of the world's most dangerous destinations. Piece researching his book Nightmare Abroad, he traveled about the world, stopping in twenty-one countries, interviewing Americans barred up in foreign prisons. Another of his books, Iron Curtain Rising, recounts his journey through Eastern Europe during the revolutions of 19893990.
Safety & Safety for Women Who Travel
Edited by Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer
$12.95, 150 pages
ISBN: 1-885211-29-5
Publication Date: Gregorian calendar month 1998
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