pen4hire on January 26th, 2010

Guest post by travel blogger foXnoMad about Long Way Round, which inspired his travels.

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pen4hire on November 23rd, 2009

Destination: The World

Books:

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

A GUEST POST by Shannon McKenna Schmidt, co-author of Novel Destinations.

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pen4hire on October 20th, 2009

Destination: The World
Book: Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities by Frank Jacobs (Pub. date 10/29/09)

My name is Vera Marie and I am addicted to maps. What is more, I do not want to be cured.

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pen4hire on October 5th, 2009

Travel writer review’s The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner. Which country is the happiest? And other assorted trivia.

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pen4hire on August 26th, 2009

Destination: The World
Magazine: Indie Travel Podcast Magazine (Available September 1, 2009)
Don’t be put off by the title of this new travel magazine. Craig and Linda Martin, world travelers who started the award-winning Indie Travel Podcasts, a website and popular blog, are sticking to their brand name as they take the plunge into travel magazine [...]

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pen4hire on August 20th, 2009

Destination:
The World
Book: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts
Every generation of wanderers has an author of travel literature that sounds the siren call.  Walt Whitman comes to mind and Lord Byron before him.  Then the famously wild days of Jack Kerouac and On the Road.

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pen4hire on July 27th, 2009

World Traveler Keith Jenkins talks about how his urge to travel started from a book about geography.

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pen4hire on June 30th, 2009

Dr. Jessie Voights of WanderingEducators.com talks about adapting to foreign culture and interviews author Mark McCrum.

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pen4hire on April 22nd, 2009

Have you read some travel books from the Earth Day reading list?
Whether or not, your assignment today is to plant a tree go to a movie–no wait–you can do both at once.
Disney Corporation will be planting a tree for every ticket sold to the movie Earth.  The movie opens today and the deal runs for [...]

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