Backpackers' Best Travel Books 2009

On any list of best backpackers' travel books is a phrasebook (or tow) -- which ones depend, of course, on which lingo you'd like to learn (or linguistically flail in less). We've got a good list of our favorite best backpackers' phrase books, none of which tell you how to ask where the shuffleboard court is (more like, "Where's the hostel?"):

• Best Foreign Language Travel Phrasebooks for Backpackers

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