Product Description

This updated classic guide for the working traveller incorporates hundreds of first-hand accounts and offers authoritative advice on how to find work around the world, either arranged in advance or found on the spot.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #632405 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

Review
"The budget globetrotters bible."
--"The Independent"
"Packed with ideas and all-important contacts."
--"The Sunday Times"
"Good, practical advice on a wide range of issues."
--"Lonely Planet's Western Europe"
"Want to travel but unable to finance a long trip? For almost 20 years Work Your Way Around the World has been helping travellers to overcome this problem...[the book] aims to enable those with little money but plenty of motivation to have a great time abroad while working their keep. It blends anecdotes with information to build up a picture of the possibilities for the working traveller across the globe."" "
"--The Guardian"

Ingram
Authoritative advice on how to find work around the world, with detailed listings of temporary opportunities and hundreds of first-hand accounts.

Customer Reviews

Best all-around guide and fun to read
While this book is written from a British perspective, it is an excellent guide for anyone who wants to travel around the world on limited funds. The author relies on "been there done that" travelers to supply information and anecdotes from the road and I can vouch from experience that those nuggets show up in revised editions.

I bought this book before my first trip around the world and it led to my first English teaching job--in Istanbul, Turkey. (Griffith's Teaching English Abroad title is a good guide for the teaching path specifically). This is also a good book to read when deciding what you're NOT willing to do. Comparing some of these jobs to working another few months at home instead to save more money puts things in perspective.

Understand that this is a guide to short-term work opportunities, so it does focus on ways to make enough to get to the next destination. It's not an international career guide, but rather an inside scoop on where to get paid while you travel. It's an entertaining read and a good investment for shoestring travelers.

Tim Leffel
author, The World's Cheapest Destinations

It lets you know what is possible
I was introduced to an early edition of this book by a couple of English blokes I lived with in Minneapolis in 1989. Above all, it made me realize that travelling around the world for a working class fellow was a realistic option. It gives a lot of specifics on how to find work in different parts of the world. I have seen no other book that comes close to providing the information that a working traveller needs. Being in its tenth edition shows that many others have found it valuable as well.

I spent a year working and travelling in Europe and Africa. Working your way around the world is a good way to educate yourself.