Destination: The Alps–Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Lichtenstein, Monaco Book: Over the Top & Back Again, Hiking X the Alps, by Brandon Wilson, illustrated by Ken Plumb, NEW 2011 Once an experienced travel writer whom I admire explained to his class how to write a good travel story. “Put yourself at risk,” he said. [...]
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Win a Copy of This Book by commenting on this post. Destination: Africa Book: Crossing the Heart of Africa by Julian Smith (NEW December 2010) I enjoy hearing stories about the adventurers who busily mapped the globe around the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. In Crossing the Heart of [...]
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The Great American Road Trip Destination: Idaho Book: Five Skies by Ron Carlson As I read Five Skies, I realized I was learning something about my father, that I had never thought about before. That’s the way it is with novels that rise above the ordinary. Literature teaches us something about the people we know, [...]
Happy 1-11-11. The Giveaway today moves over to another Blog….read on…. Destination: Diné Bikeyah (Navajo Country) Book: Tony Hillerman’s Landscape: On the Road with Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, by Anne Hillerman, with Photographs by Don Strel (Nov. 2009) No book can be THE PERFECT BOOK, I suppose, but this one comes darned close for [...]
When you comment, you will be entered to win a book about a place you probably don’t want to travel to. (See below) Destination: Afghanistan? No. Ethiopia? No. Sudan? No. Italy? Yes. Book: Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. A Guest Post by Alisa Bowman Alisa Bowman has written Project: Happily Ever After: Saving Your [...]
Happy Birthday to you, A Traveler’s Library. Next Monday we’ll mark your 2nd year in the blog biz. And for the rest or the month, we’re giving away books to a lucky commenter on each post. (See below)
Jackie Smith, at Travel ‘n Write, posts a short list of travel writers who, in her words, “salve the travel bug.” Of A Traveler’s Library, she says:” A Traveler’s Library is to readers and travelers what a candy shop is to those with a sweet tooth.” Awww, isn’t that nice? And you’ll want to go [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Montana Book: The Way West (1949) by A. B. (Bud) Guthrie, Jr.
