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I had no life experience, zero common sense and had never eaten rice. I suffered from debilitating anxiety, was battling an eating disorder and had just had my heart broken. I hoped by leaving to travel the world I would be able to heal myself.Instead, Lauren's travels were full of bad luck and near-death experiences. Over the space of a year, she was scammed and assaulted, lost teeth and swallowed a cockroach. She fell into leech-infested rice paddies, was caught up in a tsunami, her motorbike's brakes failed and she experienced a very unhappy ending during a massage in Thailand. It was just when Lauren was about to give up on travel that she stumbled across a handsome New Zealander with a love of challenges...
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How not to travel the world : adventures of a disaster-prone backpacker, Lauren Juliff
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- How not to travel the world : adventures of a disaster-prone backpacker
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lauren Juliff
- Publisher
- Summersdale
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 317
- ISBN10
- 1849537275
- ISBN13
- 9781849537278
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Biographies, Travel, Adventure, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Mental Health
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- I had no life experience, zero common sense and had never eaten rice. I suffered from debilitating anxiety, was battling an eating disorder and had just had my heart broken. I hoped by leaving to travel the world I would be able to heal myself.Instead, Lauren's travels were full of bad luck and near-death experiences. Over the space of a year, she was scammed and assaulted, lost teeth and swallowed a cockroach. She fell into leech-infested rice paddies, was caught up in a tsunami, her motorbike's brakes failed and she experienced a very unhappy ending during a massage in Thailand. It was just when Lauren was about to give up on travel that she stumbled across a handsome New Zealander with a love of challenges...