Well another year of Oscars are history, and as usual, I had not seen enough of the Acadamy Award nominees to judge, and those that I DID want to win did not.
Congratulations are due.
PEN New England honors Elyssa East for Dogtown as best non-fiction set in New England. The relevant part of the press release is below. Just look at the great company that Elyssa is in!
You can see our take on Dogtown, the first inspiring travel literature in our Great American Road Trip Series.
Eugenia Kim won the Border’s Original Voices Best Fiction prize, 2009, for The Calligrapher’s Daughter!! Congratulations from A Traveler’s Library.
Reviewed here. Given as a Giveaway Prize to Laurie Griffin, in our Great Big Travel Literature Giveaway.
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You’re busy. I’m busy. Let’s take a little break.
A Traveler’s Library will be closed until January 5, when we announce the winner of the Passports With Purpose Monteleone Hotel stay in New Orleans and the winner of the Periscope Book Light and copy of Mistress of the Sun.
5 Travel Gifts found around the web.
I am stealing borrowing this idea from Kathryn and Daniel at Two Go Rtw. (See how honest I am). Just made a couple of small changes, but I want to express my gratitude to all the people who are helping this blog grow.
I want to share with you the Best of November at A Traveler’s [...]
Destination: Cambodia
Books: You Buy ‘em!
Because the Khmer Rouge routinely slaughtered anyone in Cambodia who was educated, the country needs to restore literacy to its nation, but how can that happen when children are wandering the dusty roads instead of going to school? It is heart breaking. But you can help.
Passports With Purpose: Build a School [...]
When I started thinking about trains and train travel after reading Waiting on a Train, it seemed that everywhere I turned, people were thinking about trains. Here are some of the interesting things I found on the net.
THANKS
I want to thank once again the lovely blogger friends who pitched in and filled this space while I was out hiking in the woods and sailing the waters of Upper Peninsula Michigan last week. Rather than a regular post today, I will give you a peek at an article I wrote elsewhere, a [...]






