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Travel Books and Guides for the Student Traveler

Travel books and guides are treasure troves of useful information for student travelers. Find the best here, whether it's couch reading before you go or a pocket size booklet to carry with you.
Best Travel Books 2008 for Backpackers and STudent Travelers
Some of these travel books pop up on our lists of best backpacker books every year -- and that's because another "best travel bopk" doesn't pop up to unseat an old favorite in the meantime. This year, we're finding that Party Europe and MTV guidebooks are still ruling the guidebook roost, while we have added a couple new-old classics to our list of best travelbooks for 2008. Enjoy the research!
Best Backpackers Books 2007
Best backpackers books 2007 - new travel books and old travel guidebook favorites for student travelers, backpackers and any young or young-at-heart traveler on a hiking boot string budget. Rough Guides, MTV Travel guides, a new page-turner from Tony Wheeler -- you'll like 'em all. Know that guidebooks make great travel gifts for backpackers, too.
MTV and Frommer's Travel Guides
"MTV Italy" and "MTV Ireland," the first in the travel guidebooks series from the music vid network and the old-line travel publishing house, are very decent travel guides, and "MTV Europe" is coming in early December, with Spain, France, England, US road trips and Mexico's beaches due in 2007. Put 'em on your Christmas wish list.
Party Europe Travel Guidebooks
Party Europe, student travel guidebook to European hot spots, discos, clubs, coffeehouses and cafes in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Capri, Florence, Ibiza, London, Madrid, Munich, Pamplona, Paris, Rivieras, Rome and Venice, is more than just a guidebook to partying in Europe. Check it out.
Budget Travel Books and Guides
Travel books and guides are treasure troves of useful information for student travelers. Find the best budget travel guides from Lonely Planet and Rough Guides for students traveling on a shoestring here - some supply information on discounts and contain handy short phrase guides, too.
Monty Python's Michael Palin's Travels Now Online
Monty Python's Michael Paln's entertaining travel narratives are online - "Around the World in 80 Days," "Pole to Pole," "Full Circle," "Hemingway Adventure," "Sahara," and "Himalaya." Where else will you learn that Hemingway hired an old islander to stand at the gates of the author's home and tell visitors, "‘I’se Mr. Hemingway and I’se crazy about you.’"?
CDC Yellow Book - Health Information For International Travel 2005-200
CDC's Yellow Book 2005-2006: travelers' health and safety tips - immunizations, vaccinations, travel hazards, wild animal attacks, disease prevention (mad cow disease, river blindness, plague, yellow fever, malaria), travelers' health risks and diseases by country or world area.
Top Student Travel and Backpackers Guidebooks 2005
Top student travel books 2005 - new travel books and old travel book favorites for student travelers. Heading out for the first time? Woman traveler? Parent needing to ensure proper plans are laid? See this list!
Let's Go - US, Canada and Mexico Road Trip Guidebook
Follow Matt and Tabby on a road trip through the United States, Canada and Mexico with Let's Go Road Trip, a road trip planner from the budget trip guidebook series for deal minded young travelers. Online road trip journal and eight roadtrip itineraries.
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