Destinations
This is week two of Cambodia pictures at A Traveler’s Library. Cambodia was one of my favorite destinations ever. Partly because I had waited so long to go there. Partly because during the 1970′s I thought it would be impossible to ever get there. So when I had a chance in 1999, I was thrilled. [...]
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An Earth Day Read Destination: the World Book: The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Meet (NEW April 2012) by Eugene Linden. “Tourism’s hyperbole to the contrary, there are very few “timeless” places left on the planet.” Eugene Linden. Surely anyone afflicted with an addiction to [...]
Destination: Rome, Lake Como, Italy Book: , by Jean Govoni Salvadore The energy and winning personality of this 84-year-old memoirist shine through My Dolce Vita, her memories of working in Rome for TWA and at the classic hotel Villa d’Este on Lake Como. Since both those jobs (as of the writing of the book, she [...]
Destination: Iran Book: We Heard the Heavens Then (A Memoir of Iran) NEW April 10, 2012, by Aria Minu-Sepehr Print PDF
Pet Travel Thursday Destination: France Book: Dog Trots Globe – To Paris & Provence (A Sheltie Goes to France) by Sheron and Bob Long By Pamela Webster Dog Trots Globe – To Paris & Provence does what every travel book aspires to: it convinces a reader who has never visited a place to want to go and evokes [...]
While I was digging through photos for yesterday’s post, I found so many that I wanted to share, that I decided to devote the next few Travel Photo Thursdays to Cambodia. Today I’ll show you some of the people we saw going about their everyday life. The first one is particularly appropriate as we await [...]
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Destination: Cambodia Book: In the Shadow of the Banyan (NEW Scheduled Release: July, 2012) by Vaddey Ratner If you are over 40 years old, where were you on April 17, 1975? Print PDF
Destination: Luxembourg, Paris Book: The Expats (NEW March 2012) by Chris Pavone The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. (Oscar Wilde) [epigram at beginning of the book] Not so much a “whodunit”, instead presents an intriguing puzzle of “what was done” and “how”. Print [...]
Family Travel Friday Destination: Montgomery, Alabama Book: Back of the Bus by Aaron Reynolds By Jennifer Close On December 1, 1955 one moment changed everything. Print PDF
