As much as the Traveler’s Library would like to think it is unique in the world…it isn’t. Get over yourself, Library–there are others doing good work with travel literature. Biblio Travel is a site presided over by a couple of librarians with contributions from a wide variety of people. You type in a country, region, [...]
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Destination: Guatemala Sponsor: Heifer International Books: See List Below Today I would like to issue a challenge. But first, a little explanation. My favorite charity, Heifer International, fights hunger around the world by providing goats, sheep, chickens, honey bees, and, yes, heifers, to farmers so that they can begin to be self-sufficient and feed their [...]
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Destination: Australia Books: In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Conversations at Curlow Creek and Remembering Babylon by David Malouf Mike Cadogan, the commenter known as sandandsurf came up with a site for people looking for books about Australia and two specific books. Cadogan recommended Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country. Bryson is a favorite [...]
Destination: Sweden Movies: Ingmar Bergman Plays: August Strindberg Books: My Life as a Dog, Reidar Jonsson, Hash by Torgny Lindgren, Blackwater by Kerstin Ekma Long ago, I loved to go to art film houses and watch Ingmar Bergman films. It was in my highly emotional, love to be sad and swoony stage. Ingmar Bergman was [...]
Alisdair Pettinger has kindly come back and given us more information about George Blake. You will find it in a comment after the post about books to read for Scotland. Pin it
Why read old stuff when there is so much new stuff? Because what was written by the ancients, or by travelers in earlier centuries, can give today’s traveler a sense of the underpinnings of today’s culture of a place. I have already sung the praises of using Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian Wars as a [...]
Destination: Caribbean Islands Book: The Traveller’s Tree by Patrick Leigh Fermor When last seen in A Traveler’s Library, Patrick Leigh Fermor was hiking across the rough landscape of the Mani peninsula in Greece’s Peloponese. His journey to the Caribbean came between his adventures in Crete during the war and the many Greek journeys that he [...]
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Have you read some travel books from the Earth Day reading list? Whether or not, your assignment today is to plant a tree go to a movie–no wait–you can do both at once. Disney Corporation will be planting a tree for every ticket sold to the movie Earth. The movie opens today and the deal [...]
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