Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide
This superb, informative and easily read guide should be familiar to every family doctor and a necessary component of all practice libraries. Travel to sometimes remote places is increasingly undertaken for occupational reasons but also for family vacations. The steep rise in the number of airborne family journeys testifies to the attractions of far off places. These places are usually safe if the traveller is aware enough and properly prepared to avoid sometimes common assaults by insect vectors and other potential hazards. From extensive personal experience and with a magnificent skill at presenting necessary information on page and website in preparation of an overseas trip, the authors make an extremely clear presentation. Indeed they are to be congratulated on a major contribution to the travel literature. This handbook should ensure that experiences of travel abroad will be as safe as they are pleasurable. I am delighted that an updated e-version is planned for later in 2013.
Prof B.W.M. McGuinness, MD
A Glimpse of Eternal Snows
I love this book. It’s an open and honest account of Jane’s care for her disabled son, making life-changing decisions, and stresses and fears about whether they had made the right ones.
It’s also about Jane’s love for her son, her family, nature, humanity, languages and cultures.
It’s a wonderful balance of living in a very different culture and landscape, her husband’s difficult work there, health, family life, travel, and wildlife. She gives evocative descriptions of the bugs, sounds, colours, people and unbelievable landscapes of Nepal.
Jane’s voice is easy to listen to, her gentle humour, her utter sadness and joy of life. Amazing.
Eleanor reviewing the audiobook
Himalayan Hideout
The author has done another good job of giving us an intriguing plot with twists and turns while providing glimpses into the life, culture and scenery of the Himalayas. This should appeal to young adults and adults (read advanced teen readers and beyond). The author again proved she’s in the relatively small circle of authors who can provide a respectable performance of her own work.
Leanne