This just in: A couple of my travel tips are included with this collection of tips on trip planning at Wandering Educators. Going to Vietnam? How about Argentina? National Geographic Traveler has new guidebooks on those two countries (revised Vietnam, brand new Argentina) and I review them for my friends at Indie Travel Podcast. Now [...]
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The novel Heart of Darkness inspired Coppela to create the movie Apocalypse Now, and inspired Craig Martin to be more sensitive in his travels.
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Author Candy Harrington hated Vietnam until travel to Vietnam was inspired by an unusual book about the tunnels of Cu Chi.
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Graham Greene’s The Quiet American uses characters to represent nations and foretells the American involvement in Vietnam.
Destination: Vietnam Books: The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh Hell in a Very Small Place and Street Without Joy by Bernard Fall The Quiet American by Graham Greene Today I am giving you some more book recommendations for Vietnam, and a question. Have you recently seen the Continental Hotel in Saigon? Traveler’s Bro wants [...]
Destination: Vietnam Book: Catfish and Mandala Movie: Good Morning Vietnam Apocalypse Now Continuing my tour of Southeast Asia… Because I loved the seaside of Thailand and the countryside of both Thailand and Cambodia, I yearn to travel to Vietnam. A friend recommended for the traveler’s library the excellent book Catfish and Mandala: A Two Wheeled [...]
