Vegan Travel Handbook

Whether you've been vegan for years or are travelling as one for the first time, this guide is packed with insight and advice on where to go, and the best vegan restaurants, accommodation and cities. From cooking classes in India to wildlife watching tours in New Zealand, Lonely Planet shows you how to explore the world on a plant-based diet.

Part of the Traveler's Handbook series, The Food Traveler's Handbook provides a compelling argument for why it is important to use food as a lens through which you see the world. Using this handbook as a guide, you will learn how to eat safely in developing countries, source cheap but delicious streetside meals and discover how to make food a tool for understanding a new place and connecting to its local culture.

This step-by-step guide shows you how to research and locate vegan-friendly (or vegetarian, raw, or gluten-free) fare in any city. Beyond the food, the book offers hints for choosing a place to stay, packing, keeping the peace with non-vegan companions and planning vegan adventures (such as camping, road trips, cruises, and retreats).

This wide-ranging volume explores the tension between the dietary practice of veganism and the manifestation, construction, and representation of a vegan identity in today’s society. Emerging in the early 21st century, vegan studies is distinct from more familiar conceptions of "animal studies," an umbrella term for a three-pronged field that gained prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s, consisting of critical animal studies, human animal studies, and posthumanism. While veganism is a consideration of these modes of inquiry, it is a decidedly different entity, an ethical delineator that for many scholars marks a complicated boundary between theoretical pursuit and lived experience. The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies is the must-have reference for the important topics, problems, and key debates in the subject area and is the first of its kind. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, this handbook is divided into five parts: History of vegan studies Vegan studies in the disciplines Theoretical intersections Contemporary media entanglements Veganism around the world These sections contextualize veganism beyond its status as a dietary choice, situating veganism within broader social, ethical, legal, theoretical, and artistic discourses. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers of vegan studies, animal studies, and environmental ethics.

Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

This step-by-step guide shows you how to research and locate vegan-friendly (or vegetarian, raw, or gluten-free) fare in any city. Beyond the food, the book offers hints for choosing a place to stay, packing, keeping the peace with non-vegan companions and planning vegan adventures (such as camping, road trips, cruises, and retreats).

Your vacation isn't just any old trip. It's your escape from the hair-tearing moments of your everyday life. It's your time to do you (not in a dirty way) - your time to attend to your own wants and desires - and not your energy-sucking vampire boss's or anyone else's. You deserve to sip pomegranate mojitos on the boardwalk with the girls Or to tear off your partner's clothes under the stars on a moon-swept patch of sand, Not worry about whether you'll have to contend with a waiter who thinks trout is some sort of vegetable grown in the sea right next to kelp. Want a stress-free, meat-free vacation? The Essential Vegan Travel Guide will teach you how to find vegan food anywhere - from Tacoma to Timbuktu, so you can stop wasting your precious time off, and start enjoying it (with delicious vegan food, to boot). No more picking pepperoni off your pizza. About the author Caitlin Galer-Unti is a vegan food and travel writer currently living in Barcelona, Spain. She's traveled to 29 countries (and counting) and blogs about the vegan food she finds around the world at theveganword.com, which has been featured on The New York Times and Yahoo!. The Essential Vegan Travel Guide is her first book. Praise for the book "Caitlin's travel guide is a must-have addition to any vegan's suitcase. Whether you're taking your first trip abroad as a vegan, or you're an old hand at plant-based travel, Caitlin has a wealth of tips and tricks to make your travel easier, tastier, and more fun - all written in her trademark engaging style." - Flicking the Vs (flickingthevs.blogspot.com) "Caitlin's book features amazing vegan travel and dining tips along with stories that I can relate to. I constantly feel as though what she is writing depicts my own personal journeys. Traveling and living abroad as a vegan can have its challenges but is a truly rewarding adventure!" - Vegan Miam (veganmiam.com) "This guide will prove really useful for travelers, and I learned things along the way too about making my own maps and using sites like Doodle that I didn't know about. The guide is really thorough, and covers all of the small and large obstacles a vegan traveler might encounter." - Cadry Nelson (cadryskitchen.com) "The guide told me lots of things I didn't know despite 20+ years of travel as a vegan. The book was also an enjoyable read, with stories of Caitlin's personal travel experiences." - Alison Classe