Now it is your turn. I need some suggestions for books to read for these specific places. I have some books in mind, but want to get recommendations from people who have been there, read that. In some cases, a reader has asked me for help. In others I plan a trip myself and want [...]
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Destination: Texas Book: In a Narrow Grave by Larry McMurtry My recent road trip took me to Texas, and I found only one writer to be essential. Thirty years ago James Michener would have been our guide to Texas. He wove careful research into characters and a story line, and he wrote about Hawaii, the [...]
As I was thinking about departing from my usual posts about travel literature, I came across an excellent post by Almost Fearless on guidebooks. As she points out, they do have a purpose. And I am addicted to guidebooks, so I don’t want their absence on this site to lead anyone to think I do [...]
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“A genuine road book should open unknown realms in its words as it does in its miles. If you leave a journey exactly who you were before you departed, the trip has been much wasted, even if it’s just to the Quickee Mart.” William Least Heat Moon in While you could fill a library shelf [...]
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Destination: The American Road Books: Roads, by Larry Mc Murtry Travels With Charley In Search of America, by John Steinbeck. “Where does the road go?” asked a young Larry McMurtry of the road running past his North Texas ranch. “What are Americans like today?” John Steinbeck asked when he set out from the East Coast [...]
