This book deals with the litany of the traveler's basic health problems. Readers will learn how to avoid and deal with: • Traveler's Diarrehea • Unhealthy water • Weird foods • Strange Toilets • Dehydration • Gastroenteritis • Immunization • Lack of adequate hygiene • Worms • Snakes, Spiders and Leeches • Going outside • Bathing • The special problems of children • Issues with seniors

India is among the most difficult-and most rewarding-of places to travel. Some have said India stands for "I'll Never Do It Again." Many more are drawn back time after time because India is the best show on earth, the best bazaar of human experiences that can be visited in a lifetime. India dissolves ideas about what it means to be alive, and its people give new meaning to compassion, perseverance, ingenuity, and friendship. India-monsoon and marigold,...

"Any attempt at peace must be attended by a knowledge of self," discovers writer and photographer Mikkel Aaland, who grew up with a bomb shelter for a bedroom, in terror of nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, Aaland finds himself drawn into a mysterious Shinto priest's plan to save the world. Traveling from Norway to the Philippines, Iceland to South Africa, he places pieces of a sacred Shinto sword in key power spots around the world. Along...