Destination: Pylos, Greece Book: The History of the Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides I’m in a road trip frame of mind, since I’m in the middle of one right now. Thanks to a hotel with WIFI and for Traveler’s son lending a laptop to the cause, I can add some thoughts on road trips to the [...]
Catching up on a few things missed earlier. Bibliomania Add to the list of booksellers. Free books on line plus study guides for travelers and teachers. Longitude Books Another addition to the list of travel booksellers. An on-line book seller of travel books. Give them a location and they will put together a package of [...]
The Man Booker International Prize is awarded every two years for lifetime achievement by a fiction writer who writes in English or whose work is widely available in English translation. Unlike the Booker prize for fiction, the International is given for a lifetime of work rather than one work. Here at A Traveler’s Library we [...]
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Destination: Israel Books: The Bible; From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Freidman; Exodus by Leon Uris Whether your interest runs to history or contemporary geo-politics, Roman ruins or Medieval times, when you travel to Israel, you will find a country that is exasperating, beautiful, inspiring, welcoming and off-putting all at the same time. Conflict between [...]
At the Tucson Festival of Books last weekend, a couple of authors who have had their work published on audio books talked about the alternative to reading a book—wouldn’t that be “listening a book?” Since so many readers of A Traveler’s Library seem to like to listen while they travel, I wanted to pass along [...]
Welcome to visitors from Spot Cool Stuff. I hope you will stay a while and enjoy the Traveler’s Library. If you are looking for more on Greece in books and movies, read on. I’m flitting around the Internet guest posting again. This time at Spot Cool Stuff, where I talk about one of my favorite [...]
Rolf Potts and Tom Miller talked about travel writing to a lecture theater packed with Tucsonans last weekend at the Tucson Festival of Books. The secret of success, they said, may be over a volleyball net. When traveler and writer Rolf Potts describes his career arc, it is enough to make other travel writers at [...]
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ANNOUNCEMENT: April 29, 2010. Sorry, I have just learned that this blog no longer exists, taking my timeless words with it! I am asking my readers to take a little journey today over to Jess Haberman’s blog about books and publishing. There you will find me holding forth about my favorite topic of books and [...]
