Travel publisher Rough Guides eco travel guidebook 'Clean Breaks - 500 new ways to see the world' has been awarded the Book of the Year Award by users of planeta.com.
The guide book, written by greentraveller's founder Richard Hammond and Jeremy Smith, former Editor of the UK-based Ecologist magazine, is a guide to "unusual holidays and alternatives ways to travel that make a real difference to the lives of local people and the planet". Clean Breaks received over 50% of the 300+ votes from users of planeta.com - the online journal on ecotourism whose discussion forums, web seminars and other online resources are used by travellers, academics, NGOs and tourism businesses worldwide. For more information about the awards, see http://planeta.wikispaces.com/bookaward <http://planeta.wikispaces.com/bookaward> For more information about the book, see: http://www.greentraveller.co.uk/cleanbreaks <http://www.greentraveller.co.uk/cleanbreaks> ---- Here follows a selection of press reviews of the book: "What I really like are travel books that make you desperate to visit the places they describe - Clean Breaks does this, and, best, it does it for every continent. " Macy Halford in The New Yorker's Book Bench blog "The selection and presentation are inspired: this is a beguilingly simple, tactile compendium brimming with solid research and good writing." Dan Linstead, Editor of Wanderlust Magazine "This book contains an impressive selection of some of the 'cleanest' breaks available to the independent traveller. It is organised around geographical locations, with shorter sections on minimising the environmental impact of your trip. There are some inspired travel ideas, such as visiting a homestay scheme in a Ukrainian village, eco-tours in Iran or hiking through Saxon villages in Romania." Clover Stroud in the The Sunday Telegraph " It is a special piece of travel publishing, one far more ambitious than anything I've seen from its competitors." Ethan Gelber, WHL.travel
