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Sep 22, 2010

Jamie rated it:

Although it took me 3 months to trek my way through this book, it proved one of the best and most inspiring works I have ever read. I must admit, I was more than one time made supremely jealous of this amazing experience, vested on the kids particularly by their loving and incredibly future-minded parents. Instead of buying the children Wiis and movies, they bought them invaluable experiences on a scale only rarely achieved. I spent 5 months living abroad and have been wanting to return ever sin More...

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Jun 14, 2011

Denicemarcell rated it:

This title was on one of the goodreads ads so i followed the link. Very glad i did, love this book. They've been to places i've been as well as places i'm considering and places i am *so* not going. Haven't done the google links yet will check them out before i return the book to the library. it is more of a library book than an own book to me; the checklists and helpful hints might change my mind.
The website and the google links mean i don't have to own this book. I just did a bit of e More...

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Jan 09, 2011

Jessica rated it:

I won this book as a GoodReads FirstRead giveaway. I sat on it for a while, as I had other books in the queue, but once I started reading this book, I was completely drawn in. It details the World-the-Round trip embarked upon by the Higham family - an amazing feat for a family of four, with two children, ages 8 and 11.

This book, their trip, was incredible. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about their adventures and felt like I got to know their family a little.
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Aug 10, 2010

Connie rated it:

This is a gutsy story of a family of four that takes a year off to travel around the world. Parents David and September carefully planned the trip over the span of ten years to make sure everything could be as organized, efficient and cost-effective as possible. They brought two tandem bikes with them so they could experience naturally and independently the countries they visited. They also were smart enough to arrange that their friends mail them new books at different destinations throughou More...

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Jan 07, 2010

April rated it:

I really enjoyed reading about the Highams' adventures. We just took our first international trip this year, sans kiddos, and I admire their bravery in planning a trip like this with children. While I don't think we'll take something of this scope on, it has definitely inspired me to save more so that we can take shorter trips with our kids when they're older.
Back to the book, I think John did an excellent job condensing an entire year and visits to 28 countries into a manageable read. More...

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Dec 21, 2009

Lisa rated it:

The Highams, of the Bay Area, took a year off and traveled the world with their two children and this is their story. Gushingly recommended by a good friend. Motivation to make my own similar story with husb, Steve, and cat, Willow. (Though, not sure Willow's up to this.) The book kind of reads like a blog, so you have to be forgiving of the author's somewhat lame sense of humor (he's an engineer, so that explains much of it), yet he offers great perspective as he navigates the world with his w More...

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Dec 15, 2009

Barbara rated it:

This is one of the best "travelogue" books I have ever read. It makes me want to buy a bike and peddle across Austria, now! However, a whole year of traveling might be a bit much...maybe just a summer!

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Jul 05, 2011

Kate rated it:

I kept thinking, "I want to do this! I want to travel the world like this!" Then I remembered I have done this -- but on a ship. This book has inspired me to travel across the US by bike and possibly one day to bike from Barrow, Alaska to the southern most tip of South America.

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Jul 22, 2011

Rebecca rated it:

I love books about families that travel around the world. And while Americans are the least travelled people I know, it's always them who take their entire families on the road and then write about it later. Now is it that they take their families on the road more then most or are they the ones who just always have to cash in on a book later? I wonder. Anyway, I saw this book at Borders a few weeks ago and found it only at the LAPL system. It sat for 3 weeks and then when I couldn't renew it, I More...

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May 17, 2011

Lori rated it:

This was a great little story of a family of four who takes a year off from their 'real lives' to travel the world. As I began to read this story, I was a little frustrated - maybe because I was trying to get something out of the book that I wasn't getting. Then, as I continued to read, I became more appreciative for the writing and the way the story is told. Upon completing the book, I got the most out of my reflections of the story as a whole. I am grateful to the writer for not overdoing More...

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Aug 18, 2010

Emily rated it:

This was an honest and witty memoir of one family's yearlong adventure around the world. I appreciate this book because I can relate on some level, since we are also a Mormon family living in the Bay Area. I like to think of myself as adventurous but this was a whole different level. While I plan to travel much more than I am currently able to - and with the kids even! - the only way I can really figure out how to afford it is to live abroad. This definitely made me think about exactly HOW I wan More...

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Oct 23, 2009

Julie rated it:

We met the Highams shortly after moving to the Bay Area because we go to the same church as them. As soon as I found out about their big trip - I knew they were cool people! I've heard so much about their trip and seen mementos that I couldn't wait to read their book.

I loved the book so much and I couldn't put it down! They took a trip around the world with their 2 children. They left their jobs, their house, and their normal lives. The stories and experiences they had were am More...

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Mar 26, 2010

Megan rated it:

I won this book as a Goodreads giveaway, and was very happy to get a chance to read it. John Higham writes about the year he and his wife and children spent traveling around the world. Of course, not everything went as planned, and their whole agenda had to be revised when 11-year-old Katrina broke her leg a few weeks into the trip. But through it all, the family stayed positive and came out closer than before.

I had to laugh at Katrina and her brother Jordan being so engrossed i More...

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Sep 10, 2009

Katie rated it:

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Mar 01, 2010

Cindy rated it:

When the Higham family's one year "world the round", trip was over, I was sad too because that was the end of the book.

Yes, I thought the Highams were crazy. Around the world in one year with TWO kids under the age of 12? Camping? Staying at hostels? Feeding piranha's to alligators? Yikes! The book was a real roller coaster filled with funny moments, poignant episodes and thought-provoking descriptions of some of the most horrific sites on the planet. Who thought a More...

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May 27, 2011

Katelyn rated it:

I loved this book and wish I could go on my own World-the-Round trip! I was surprised when I turned to the back and found out how cheap it really was! I loved hearing about the family's different experiences and I loved the little "truths" that I found that reminded of my own family ("I found a light saber in my cereal!"). Some of the things like Hiroshima and Cambodia were really enlightening even though they were saddening and I want to visit them. I also liked the names th More...

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Sep 24, 2009

Jenna rated it:

This is my "Great Book" pick of the year, and I have decided that it will be my gift of choice to friends and family this holiday season. I found it an easy, witty and fascinating read as I journeyed with the Higham family around the world. 360 Degrees was easy to pick up and hard to put down, and I feel like I have seen peoples and countries in the world with new eyes. Frequent outbursts of laughter kept me awake reading long after I should have turned out the lights, and even my 8-ye More...

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Sep 20, 2011

Yuliya rated it:

This is a book about an American family of four (mom, dad, and two kids aged 12 and 8) taking a year-long trip around the world. It's written as a travelogue mostly by dad, with occasional excerpts from the kids' diaries. The descriptions of various countries and places they've been too are pretty informative, and there are occasional glimpses into the family's dynamics. It took me quite a long time to read it because I was also following the book's thread on Google Earth where the family tagged More...

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Jul 22, 2010

Lisa rated it:

Fabulous book about family, travel, comfort, trust and letting go to behold what you already have. A story of a family's quest to travel the world, to be together, to try new things and to be open for life in the fullest.

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Apr 09, 2010

Jennifer (JC-S) rated it:

‘Home is where your stuff is.’

John Higham and his wife September planned this trip for more than a decade: a year-long trip around the world. John and September and their two children Katrina aged eleven and Jordan aged eight spent the year visiting twenty-eight different countries, and experiencing many adventures.

This book provides a fascinating perspective of their journey, and the writing is enhanced by the visuals in the Google Earth layer. I found that I read the b More...

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Jul 07, 2011

Lena rated it:

Started out a bit rough and I almost stopped reading it 1/3 through because every page was permeated by American false sense of superiority. Ever so slightly, often in a semi-sarcastic way masqueraded as a lame joke, every country was deemed inferior than the place the Highams came from, which is golden California. I kept wanting to write the author an e-mail (which he encourages in the book's foreword) and ask whether he actually genuinely enjoy anything about the trip. However, the attitude of More...

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Jan 28, 2011

Zoe rated it:

I think that this is a great book so far and I really want other people to read it also, don't be scared because it is thick, once you get in to it you'll finish it like that!

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Sep 12, 2011

Becky rated it:

This book made me want to take my own trip around the world. What an amazing experience for this family. Very interesting reading.

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Apr 14, 2010

Jackiew rated it:

I absolutely love this book. It's about a couple who had a dream that they would quit their jobs and take their two kids around the world (mostly on tandem bikes). It is very well written and I have laughed many times throughout the book reading about their adventures. I love that the couple (and their kids) decided to go see the world and teach each other about different cultures. It also has passages throughout the book where you can go on Googlearth and check out where they went. I did n More...

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Jul 10, 2010

Sally rated it:

What a wonderful, entertaining travel book to read!! I felt like I was actually travelling with the family and experiencing the world. The author - John - was witty and hilarious to add a lot of humor in his travel experiences. He also did a great job combining a mix of education of places they visited with interesting tidbits of history and his/his family'z travel stories/experiences and their provoking thoughts/points of views on the different cultures/people they encountered with - to make More...

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Oct 08, 2010

Robin rated it:

I love travel writing, especially the idea of taking a year off of real like and traveling the world. This was a pleasant read about a family who did just that, choosing to take their tandem bikes and camp for much of their journey. I enjoyed the author's writing about the experiences they encountered, and learning about new parts of the world. And it was nice to see how each family member's perspective on the world and their own lives changed throughout the year abroad. I wish it was a bit m More...

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Oct 04, 2010

Jeni rated it:

I won John Highams book in the good reads giveaway. The first day I received it in the mail I began to read and could hardly put it down!
John Hingham writes about how he and his family fulfill their long-time dream of travelling the world together for one year. Although I found it very interesting to learn about some of the 28 countries they visited; experiencing the cultures and sights through their eyes, made me get a bit of a travel bug of my own. Even more so, I was amazed at how br More...

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Jan 24, 2011

Jill rated it:

I enjoyed a lot of the funny and touching stories that were in this book. I loved reading about the cultures and the different placed they visited, especially since I've actually been (or know people who have been) to many of these places. Their family was fun to get to know (I laughed out loud several times, prompting my girlfriend to look at me askance), and pretty inspiring (though I imagine we didn't hear about a great many of the squabbles that must happen when you're that close all the t More...

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Jun 17, 2010

Jamie rated it:

One thing you should probably know about me before I proceed with my review. I suffer from wanderlust, the travel bug, or whatever name you feel compelled to call it. If I could explore the world for the rest of my life, I'd be a happy camper. That being said, you can imagine how giddy I was when this book showed up in my mailbox. I immediately got the goosebumps like I do before I travel caused by that feeling of exploring the unknown and the thrill that there may be an adventure in your immedi More...

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Jan 01, 2010

Katie rated it:

This is not the sort of book I would usually choose to read - a travel book about a family of four taking off a year to go around the world. However, I know the family and the mother was Cyrus's wonderful scout leader last year, so when they wrote a book about their travels I had to read it. We actually read it for bookclub and both John and September came and gave us some of the behind the scenes details about their trip, writing the book, how their lives have changed since, etc. I really li More...

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