Win a free travel book with Diverse Traveller

From January 2010 (to December 2010) up to THREE Diverse Traveller contributors, (stories or features published on DiverseTraveller.com) will be selected to each receive ONE of the books listed below - our way of saying thank you.

Prizes (terms and conditions below the list of prizes):

1. Babs 2 Brisbane by Barbara Haddril (signed copy). “A story  filled with joy, intrigue, courage and adventure.  A profound experience and a gripping read. Barbara shows the way of low carbon travel and the experience of a true journey.”

2. Sold by Patricia McCormack. Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though they are desperately poor, Lakshmi’s life is full of simple pleasures. But on losing all their crops in a monsoon, Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India to be sold into prostitution. 

3. Foreign Babes in Beijing by Rachel DeWoskin. DeWoskin paints a lively, chaotic portrait of the country in the 1990s, particularly through the people she meets, caught between east and west, old and new.

4. We'll Always Have Paris by John Baxter. For more than a century, Americans and Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. We'll Always Have Paris" is a personal view of Paris as it appeared to the emotionally and intellectually hungry of the world.

5. A Perfect Circle by Susie Kelly : A light-hearted guide to some lesser-known attractions as Susie Kelly embarks on a 10,000km journey around France.

6. From Aintree to York by Stephen Cartmell: A travelogue of racing and a key to understanding Britain and its curiously comical inhabitants.

7. The idler book of crap holidays by Dan Kieran: In Crap Holidays, Dan Kieran highlights 50 of the most disastrous – and hilarious – holidays from hell… * From leaky caravans in Wales, to crushingly disappointing luxury hotels in Barbados.

8. 50 Ways to Greener Travel by Sian Berry. Sian Berry is not asking you to give up cars and never to go on holiday abroad again, but will show you instead how to reduce your carbon footprint in small but effective ways.

[Books 4 - 9 were donated by Transworld Publishing.]

10. The Art of Rockefeller Center by C Roussel
From the beginning John D. Rockefeller incorporated art into his plans for Rockefeller Center in New York City, commissioning pieces meant to inspire the viewer with idealism, work ethics and religion. [Donated by W. W. Norton & Co]

11. Rough Guide DIRECTIONS: Washington DC, Mallorca, Algrave, Edinburgh, Cancun & Cozumel, Dominican Republic, Ibiza and Formentera, and Orlando & Walt Disney World.

12. Everything You Didn't Need to Know about Australia by Adam Warm. Adam Ward gives us an armchair tour of the Outback country. He provides many short and lively factual bits on Australia's culture, history and natural features.

13. Domino: The Eskimo Coast Disaster (Paperback) by Maura Hanrahan

This book is about a devastating hurricane that occurred long ago in a northern clime. It tells a compelling tale that you can’t help but be drawn into.

Non-UK contributors ONLY:

14. Everything You Didn't Need to Know about the UK by Nick Brownlee. Highlighting all the weird and wacky facts that make the UK one of the number one tourist destinations, this guide is filled with off the wall facts, quotes, inane trivia and essential information on etiquette and slang.

Prize terms and conditions:

• Prize available to female residents of the UK*
• * Item 15 above open to non-UK contributors only.
• Only one entry per household; entrants must be aged 18 or over.
• Entries only valid when travel story or travel fetaure is published on the Diverse Traveller website.
• Responsibility cannot be accepted for any lost contributions / entries.
• The THREE prizes consists of ONE of the books listed above. Books will be randomly chosen by an independent person.
• The winners will be selected on the second week of each new month by an independent person.
• Diverse Traveller will notify the winners by email by the third week of each new month.
• The names of the winners will be made available on this page of the Diverse Traveller website. 
• The prize is not negotiable and cannot be exchanged for cash in whole or in part.
• Volunteers or employees of Diverse Traveller and members of their immediate families are not eligible to participate.
• The decision of Diverse Traveller is final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
• Promoter: Diverse Traveller, c/o VJem Events Studio 101R Mare Street Studios. 203 -  213 Mare St, London E8 3QE

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