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Tasty Travel Destination: Bahamas Book: Living Off the Land and Sea by Karen Goodfellow By Brette Sember I’ve got a thing about the Caribbean. I love islands. I adore the feeling of being surrounded on all sides by water, and having sand all the way around. The colors of the water are like art to [...]
PDF Culture Travel Tuesday Destination: Upper Peninsula, Michigan Book: South of Superior by Ellen Airgood Post by Dr. Jesse Voigts Print PDF
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A Guidebook Digression Destination: Istanbul, Turkey Book: Istanbul: A Cultural History (NEW January 2012) by Peter Clark With this cultural history of Istanbul, the Interlink Books publishing company racks up twenty such guides to cities around the world, from Calcutta to San Francisco. To see the entire list of Cultural Histories, or to purchase this [...]
A Guidebook Digression Destination: Europe Book: Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide, (NEW April 2012) by Doug Mack Everybody has to have a gimmick. Doug Mack‘s gimmick is to flout the hot trends of SE Asia, Eastern Europe and adventure travel and get back to basics. [...]
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A Guidebook Digression Destination: London Book: I Never Knew That About London (Great Britain 2007; NEW in U.S. 2012) by Christopher Winn As the title suggests, you will find surprises on every page of I Never Knew That About London. Print PDF
Guidebook (Kind of) Digression Destination: The Amazon River Basin, Columbia and Venezuela Book: Along the River That Flows Uphill: From the Orinoco to the Amazon (2009), by Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt Adventure travel competes with luxury travel in a daily race to stuff my mail box and Google Reader. An occasional luxury adventure trip–to [...]
Guidebook Digression I spend a lot of time trying to explain to publishers and P.R. people that A Traveler’s Library rarely writes about guidebooks. Instead, we prefer books of many genres that inspire or enhance travel–books that are not necessarily found in the travel section. However today and for the next week or so, I [...]
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Destination:World War II era Hungary and Italy Book: You, Fascinating You by Germaine Shames (NEW March 2012) I cannot review this book. It fits the criteria of A Traveler’s Library by providing background on a place you might want to travel to, with its main setting of Budapest and various places in Italy. I know [...]
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The third annual Tucson Festival of Books took place on the University of Arizona Mall last weekend, March 10 and 11. This annual event draws enormous crowds to its overwhelming number of programs, but people are as much fun as the books on sale. Great people watching at the Tucson Festival of Books, all ages [...]
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