Guest post by travel blogger foXnoMad about Long Way Round, which inspired his travels.
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.
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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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 [...]
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.
World Traveler Keith Jenkins talks about how his urge to travel started from a book about geography.
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Dr. Jessie Voights of WanderingEducators.com talks about adapting to foreign culture and interviews author Mark McCrum.
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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 [...]






