Quintin Winks

Tanzania - Culture Smart! (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include:

* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* dos, don'ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken

"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel

"... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel

"...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer

"...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine

"...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kuperard
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781857336252
• Artikelnr.: 37967763

Autorenporträt

QUINTIN WINKS is a Canadian journalist, freelance writer, and photographer.After graduating in journalism from the Langara College,Vancouver, he spent several years reporting for Canadian newspapers.His passion for writing and interest in culture led him to East Africa, where he based himself in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. From his inner-city apartment, Quintin wrote monthly columns for the Dar Guide and contributed to Zanzibar s Karibu magazine, This Day newspaper, and PAA, Precision Airways in-flight magazine, and used the rest of his time to explore East Africa. Quintin has contributed to a variety of news and travel publications across North America. He has also published photography from Iceland to Botswana, Bolivia to the Canadian Arctic, and many cultures and landscapes in between. Now based on Vancouver Island and writing for a daily newspaper, his latest book project explores the decline of community news in North America.