Overlanders' Handbook, A Route & Planning Guide: Asia, Africa, Latin America - Car, 4WD, Van, Truck (Trailblazer): Worldwide Route & Planning Guide: Car,4wd, Van, Truck
Product ID: 53956872
Chris Scott and his band of globetrotting contributors and specialists have put together the definitive manual for planning and undertaking a vehicle-dependent overlanding adventure across the wilds of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Overlanders' Handbook is written in the same entertaining yet clear jargon-free English for which Chris's other books are known - it doesn't assume you know your plug gap from a radiator cap. This second edition has been re-researched and updated into a more compact book published as a paperback , rather than a hardback as before. Includes: 1. Planning - When to go; typical costs; documentation; sponsorship; early overland journeys. 2. Vehicle choice and preparation - The Overlanders' Handbook is the most comprehensive account in print, covering everything from adapting a cheap car to equipping a campervan or 4x4 for months on the road, or even building and outfitting your own accommodation module to mount on an all-terrain truck chassis. 3. Life on the road - How to handle tricky borders, haggle over a purchase, treat a dodgy stomach and cope with crazy driving conditions. Guidance on wild camping; navigation and mapping strategies; onward shipping; advice for solo women overlanders; travelling with children or with pets; vehicle repairs and troubleshooting; and off-road driving techniques. 4. Continental route outlines - Guidelines on both popular and obscure overland routes through Asia, Africa and Latin America. Includes fuel prices, easiest borders and best seasons, visa strategies, danger zones and regional highlights. 5. Overlanders' Tales - Half a dozen accounts of global adventures lasting months or even years in vans, 4x4s and all-terrain trucks - from contributors aged from 9 to 69. 6. 32 colour pages, 308 B/W photos, 16 maps. 7. Supported by the online resource: www.overlanders-handbook.com. Review: Very useful - Very useful book Review: Everything you need to know - A fantastic handbook full of helpful information and inspiration. I have done a couple of long overland trips and the advice here is really helpful. It's one of those books I go back to time after time.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 77 Reviews |
X**P
Very useful
Very useful book
D**G
Everything you need to know
A fantastic handbook full of helpful information and inspiration. I have done a couple of long overland trips and the advice here is really helpful. It's one of those books I go back to time after time.
S**.
Enjoyable read besides the nuggets you need for your travels.
Have used Chris's motorcycle books pre ride to Morocco a few years back as a novice outside EU. Superb advice and help for anyone going outside Europe or looking to do "that big one" best there is in my opinion.buy,worth every penny!....ps,no,I'm not chris' son! Enjoy.
J**1
As expected
Good service item as expected
D**N
Pre trip Overlanders bible.
Excellent information.
T**Y
Are you overlanding?
Excellent, techy stuff and border paperwork is out of date but majority is still relevant. Strongly recommended
P**N
Great book to prepare for overlanding
Great book if you are planning overlanding from a few weeks to several months.
D**K
A step up!
I bought Chris Scott's book "Sahara Overland" 12 years ago, and was enthralled by it, but this book, (a sort of updated version of Sahara Overland), is a step up. A superb book, a font of information, all laid out in easy-to-read format. Entertaining too. There is just about everything you need to know inside its covers, and if it's not there, then there is information on where to get it. He has also included texts from other sources where they have specialised / personal experience, which is invaluable. I cannot recommend this book too highly, and can truthfully say it was worth every penny, (or in my case, kroner!).
W**N
Um clássico
muito tecnico ,pouco util.
R**M
Used Book is like New!
Great price for a "used" book that is in great shape. I received new books that were not as good quality as this one.
J**.
100% recomendado para viajes en Camper o vehículo de expedición
Muy completo, se centra en muchísimos detalles que cuesta mucho encontrar por internet (habría que recopilar información de experiencias de distintos viajeros en múltiples foros, condensarla etc) y los ordena en un manual fácil de llevar y consultar. Si te gustan las furgonetas Camper y planeas hacer un viaje largo en una (o en un vehículo de expedición) este libro es fundamental. La parte de visados, de consejos de viaje,... Maravilloso. Pero sobre todo la parte de elección de vehículo es increíble. Muy detallada, ahondando en las ventajas y desventajas de determinados motores, etc. 100% recomendado.
P**A
The offroading bible.
I’m very happy with the publication of mr Scott and trailblazer. Gets through all the point you need to plan and overland travel. From the places to go, the vehicule to chose, the equipment you need, the administration that you will suffer, literally everything!
M**O
Ottimo
Ottimo libro ben dettagliato su come organizzare tour overland. E bene specificare che il libro è in inglese ma abbastanza chiaro anche per chi lo conosce anche solo scolasticamente. Consigliato a chi si vuole organizzare un viaggio all'avventura
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