Your Gap Year - everything you need for the adventure of a lifetime! The definitive handbook for students wanting to make the most of a year off before further education. Your Gap Year is the essential book for all young people planning a gap year before continuing with their education. This up to date guide provides essential information on specialist Gap Year programmes available as well as the vast range of jobs and voluntary opportunities available to young people around the world. Catering to all possible desires for how to spend a year, there is detailed information on how to gain qualifications and skills from your gap year, or details on how to join an expedition if that s your preference. The guide includes a country by country guide to gap year opportunities and is illustrated with first hand accounts from travellers to show you what you can expect.

Recommended reading. --The Guardian Whether you want to work as an au pair in the Netherlands, with disadvantaged children in Romania, teach English in Japan or pick avocados in Israel, this is the book you need. Recommended. --Overseas Jobs Express Provides a comprehensive guide to opportunities, sound assessment of the risks and rewards, and accounts from more than 100 young people who have already filled the gap year. --The Daily Telegraph A wealth of information --The Independent

Susan Griffith is the author of a number of acknowledged classics including Gap Years for Grown-ups, Taking a Gap Year, Teaching English Abroad and Work Your Way Around the World, which has been personally updated by her over its 13 editions. Susan specialises in writing books and articles for travellers who want to work and volunteer abroad and, as well as being a contributing editor to the respected US magazine Transitions Abroad since the early days of its publication, Susan also contributes occasional articles to the travel pages of The Independent and The Times