Recensione
"For decades, Jane has been helping me ― and the many thousands of other travellers who read her every word ― stay well. She's a brilliant doctor who calibrates the many hazards that stand between you and a safe return home, yet she is also a traveller who understands the unparalleled rewards of a journey beyond your comfort zone and into the unknown. I am thrilled that her wisdom is now so easily accessible." --Simon Calder, broadcaster, author, and travel correspondent for The Independent
"Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth's thorough guide on staying healthy while traveling is an incredible piece to add to your travel tool kit. She covers rarely talked-about syndromes, like reverse culture shock, and offers easy-to-follow, practical advice that could potentially save your life ... or at the very least, save your vacation." --Kristy Alpert, author, and freelance travel journalist with Travel + Leisure, Cosmopolitan, Global Traveler, Fodor's Travel, and more
This is the latest edition of Jane Wilson-Howarth’s guide to healthy travel, written for the traveller in clear, plain English but equally suitable for health care professionals new to travel health. Its comprehensive coverage begins with planning and preparation for travel and goes on to include virtually every type of accident or health problem likely to be encountered by every type of traveller in every imaginable type of environment, concluding with advice for the returning traveller. The 320-page book gives sound, common-sense advice, evidence-based recommendations and a multitude of first-hand anecdotes to illustrate points in the text, along with helpful tables, maps, diagrams and illustrations. There is also a useful list of worldwide resources, a list of suggested further reading and a detailed index. Although travel health advice is available nowadays from a number of online sources, there is still a definite place for a book such as this as an aid to planning a journey and a comprehensive ready reference guide to how to deal with problems during and after travel. I thoroughly recommend it to both inexperienced and experienced travellers alike as well as to aspiring travel health advisers. --Mike Townend MB, ChB (Hons), Dip Trav Med, FFTM RCPS (Glasg) Hon Fellow and Past Chairman BGTHA, Hon Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
L'autore
Jane Wilson-Howarth is a qualified parasitologist and doctor of medicine. She works as a GP and teaches medical students, backpackers and Engineers without Borders about health. As a balance to clinical work she writes life-affirming prose with exotic themes. Jane has three travel health guides in print ('How to Shit Around the World is an Amazon best-seller in two categories) as well as two memoirs, one set in Madagascar, the other in Nepal. She continues to write extensively on travel and health including on occasion for The Independent newspapers, The Guardian and other key national and international publications. She has written health features for Wanderlust magazine since issue one - that is 176 so far - and has contributed health chapters to innumerable Bradt travel guides.
