Review of "Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary" by Helene Henderson, Sue Ellen Thompson

Some businesses would find this book an absolute necessity. You might consider this source of information to plan for your retirement. Want to travel? Need to travel? You might want to write up a round-up of festivities available for your newsletter or newspaper. Are you strong? This is a heavy tome filled from cover to cover with lots of information about holidays around the world. You can find when holy days and other feasts are celebrated. This is a worldwide compendium remember, so you scan check out regional, Local and international events. There are some 2,400 events listed here and many of them sound very exciting.

Each entry includes all of the information you will want to know, including the dates, the persons to contact. There are feasts and commemorations listed here that will fascinate you. Above all you can learn about different religions and commemorations of historic events all over the world. You get details like the address to write to for information and the web sites you can look at if you are interested.

Who wouldn't be interested? It is big and heavy and fairly expensive. Go to your library and check if they have this fun reference book available so you can browse a bit. If your business includes international travel and marketing, the book more than pays for itself in time saved in research.