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sophia_sol) wrote2015-11-21 11:46 am
sophia_sol) wrote2015-11-21 11:46 am
How to Shit Around The World, by Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth
The full title of the book doesn't fit in the post title section - the complete title is "How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling".
Someone loaned me this book, so I read it. It's fine? Covers pretty much what it needs to cover. I already knew basically everything important from this book though, mostly either from personal travel experience, my parents' sharing of their travel experiences, fascinated poring over of "Where There Is No Doctor" when I was a kid, and reading "How to Shit in the Woods" when I was a teenager. But I kinda figured going in that I was not the target audience so that's not a surprise.
I'm not a fan of how the overall image you get from reading this book is that the developing world is full of nothing but terribly unhygienic people. Also it was weirdly anti birth control pills. Like, overall definitely pro birth control? but it had a lot to say about birth control pills in particular being unreliable and more trouble than they're worth.
At any rate, overall the book does certainly have useful information for new travelers who are not used to having to think about food and water safety and haven't yet learned about what one can expect from bathrooms in other parts of the world.
Someone loaned me this book, so I read it. It's fine? Covers pretty much what it needs to cover. I already knew basically everything important from this book though, mostly either from personal travel experience, my parents' sharing of their travel experiences, fascinated poring over of "Where There Is No Doctor" when I was a kid, and reading "How to Shit in the Woods" when I was a teenager. But I kinda figured going in that I was not the target audience so that's not a surprise.
I'm not a fan of how the overall image you get from reading this book is that the developing world is full of nothing but terribly unhygienic people. Also it was weirdly anti birth control pills. Like, overall definitely pro birth control? but it had a lot to say about birth control pills in particular being unreliable and more trouble than they're worth.
At any rate, overall the book does certainly have useful information for new travelers who are not used to having to think about food and water safety and haven't yet learned about what one can expect from bathrooms in other parts of the world.