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There are a wide variety of guidebooks designed for the student and/or budget traveler. Listed below are a few of the best series available:
*Rough Guides: A candid UK based guidebook that provides detailed information about transportation, accommodation, and sightseeing.
*Lonely Planet Series: Australia adventure based guidebook series for the independent traveler.
*Let’s Go: This series, put together by Harvard students, gives you the details on everything from bus routes to interesting nightspots. NB: as this is a popular guidebook, the places in it are often crowded and filled with other Americans.
*Berkeley Guides: The students at UC Berkeley have put together their own series of budget guides. Similar to the Let’s Go guides, the information is presented with a funky, loose attitude.
* Fodor’s "Off the Beaten Track": These guides provide specific itineraries, highlights and tips about where to go Hotels and restaurants are listed from inexpensive to expensive and give you a broader range of choices than Let’s Go and Berkeley.
*Survival Kit for Overseas Living, Kohls, R. L. (1996): For Americans Planning to Live and Work Abroad. Third Edition. Maine: Intercultural Press
*Culture Shock! A Guide to Customs and Etiquette, Eu-Wong, Shirley (1996)- Switzerland. Portland, Oregon: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company
*Women’s Guide to Overseas Living.Piet-Pelon, N. J. and Hornby, B. (1992) Maine: Intercultural Press
*The Art of Crossing Cultures. Craig Sorti. Maine: Intercultural Press
The following is a list of works (mainly novels) that address cross-cultural issues.* Abroad, Fussell, Paul (1980): British literary traveling between the wars. N. Y. Oxford University Press.
*The Consul’s File Boston Theroux, Paul (1977): Houghton Mifflin.
* L’Enfant Noir Enland, Camara Laye (1966): Cambridge University Press.
* Notes from a Small Island West Long Branch, Bryson,Bill (c1999)N.J.:White Starr.
* Growing; an autobiography of the years, Woolf Leonard (1962)New York: Harcourt, Brace and World.
*Guest of the Sheik; anethrography of an Iraqi Village Garden City, Fernea, Elizabeth (1969) N.Y.: Anchor Books.
*The Innocents Abroad, Hartford, Twain, Mark, Conn.: American Publishing Co.
*The diary of a journey, Huxley, Aldous[1957, c1926] Jesting Pilate; London, Chatto & Windus.
* Journey to Kars New York, Glazebrook, Philip (1984): Atheneum.
* The Joy Luck Club, Tan, Amy (c1989, New York) : Putnaam’s.
* A Passage to India, Forste,r E.M. (1978), London: E. Arnold.
* The Raj Quartet, Scott, Paul (1976), New York: Morrow.
* Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue, London, Bowles, Paul [1963]: P.Owen.
* Things Fall Apart, London, Ibadan, Achebe, Chinua[1967]: Nairobi.
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