The Family Sabbatical Handbook: The Budget Guide to Living Abroad with Your Family

Bernick, Elisa

ISBN 10: 1887140697 / ISBN 13: 9781887140690

Published by Intrepid Traveler, 2007

About this Item

1st edition. 296 pages. 8.75x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # 1887140697

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Family Sabbatical Handbook: The Budget Guide to Living Abroad with Your Family
• Publisher: Intrepid Traveler
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1887140697
• ISBN 13: 9781887140690
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.37 kilograms

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Synopsis

What's it like living in another country? People have been fascinated by the topic for millennia, accounting for best sellers from Herodotus to Mayle and Mayes. While many readers are satisfied with a vicarious experience, a growing number want to live it for themselves. Elisa Bernick offers readers the book she wished she'd had when she and her husband and children were planning their 18-month family sabbatical.

About the Author

Elisa Bernick spent the first 12 years of her life lying on a hill in her suburban Minnesota backyard staring up at the sky wondering what life was like outside her tiny spot on the globe. She has spent the next 35 years doing her best to find out. At 17, she headed off to travel around the world and worked with fire-eaters in Paris, inoculated turkeys on a kibbutz in Israel, fed truckers on a boat to Greece, rode the Magic Bus to London, and sold camping supplies in Edinburgh. During college in Madison, Wisconsin, she sat down on a bench next to a 23-year-old man named Michael. He had a long blond ponytail, a quick smile, and excellent traveling stories of his own. They decided to try some adventures together (including having a couple of kids) and have been traveling together ever since. Elisa is an award-winning writer and journalist. During her 25-year career, she has worked as a reporter and producer for radio, broadcast television, and cable stations that include Minnesota Public Radio, PBS, WCCO-TV, and Twin Cities Public Television. Her freelance magazine artlcles on travel and parenting have been published by Parents Magazine, Minnesota Parent, and Transitions Abroad. She is the author of Cyberos, a romantic thriller set in the mysterious world of virtual reality, and Exit Strategies, which traces the adventures of a Jewish family that moves to the Protestant Midwestern suburbs in the 1960s and 70s. Elisa has taught creative and broadcast writing at Syracuse University, the University of Minnesota, and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She is an avid gardener and lives with her husband and two children in St. Paul, Minnesota.