Daren
Susan Graham was a well known journalist and author from the 50s & 60s era. She is very well travelled, and here she tells of a round the world trip taken in order to reach South America (back in the day there was no routing from New Zealand to South America, and it was necessary to fly to North America - the basis of her book is if you are flying all that way you may as well stop as often as you can and see lots of places! This book was published in 1963.
The first few chapters are basic travel preparation advice for those who have never travelled - it is a bit patronising, but to be fair in NZ back in the 60's there was the Kiwi backpacker who packs up and travels the world for a few years before returning home to get on with settling down, but there were plenty of people who had no idea how to get started, so perhaps these were helpful chapters!
It doesn't stop there, there is plenty of advice through out the book, but all given in a genuine and probably helpful way. The author makes a lot of stops, and we get around 3 pages for each stop she discusses. In the book she mentions that in her four month travels she visited 'over forty countries' whereas she mentions *only* about twenty one.
Her travels are almost exclusively city based (when you only have a few days in each country it makes sense), but she gets a little further afield in South America. You can check out the shelves I associated with this review if you are interested, but there is little to be gained from a few short pages other than a basic highlights reel.
This was amusing enough, in an easy to read format.
3 stars.
Susan Graham was a well known journalist and author from the 50s & 60s era. She is very well travelled, and here she tells of a round the world trip taken in order to reach South America (back in the day there was no routing from New Zealand to South America, and it was necessary to fly to North America - the basis of her book is if you are flying all that way you may as well stop as often as you can and see lots of places! This book was published in 1963.
The first few chapters are basic travel preparation advice for those who have never travelled - it is a bit patronising, but to be fair in NZ back in the 60's there was the Kiwi backpacker who packs up and travels the world for a few years before returning home to get on with settling down, but there were plenty of people who had no idea how to get started, so perhaps these were helpful chapters!
It doesn't stop there, there is plenty of advice through out the book, but all given in a genuine and probably helpful way. The author makes a lot of stops, and we get around 3 pages for each stop she discusses. In the book she mentions that in her four month travels she visited 'over forty countries' whereas she mentions *only* about twenty one.
Her travels are almost exclusively city based (when you only have a few days in each country it makes sense), but she gets a little further afield in South America. You can check out the shelves I associated with this review if you are interested, but there is little to be gained from a few short pages other than a basic highlights reel.
This was amusing enough, in an easy to read format.
3 stars.