Amazing Gap Year Adventures: Inspirational True Tales to Guide You on the Journey of a LifetimePaperback, 28 September 2007

Charting the highs and lows of independent travel, this informative and inspirational guidehelps readersmake the most of a gap yearparents and children alike. Besides stories of bungee-jumping and swimming with sharks, teaching children English in Africa, tending baby jaguars in Bolivia, and studying film in New York, author and journalist Tammy Cohen has selected some remarkable accounts of students who've helped save communities, single-handedly rebuilt the hospital that cured their malaria, and transformed the lives of their own parents by introducing them to the third-world village that has more or less adopted them."