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For Jane Austin’s birthday, we talk to Mother and daughter Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway about their book Lady Vernon.
Destination: Paris
Book: Paris Movie Walks: Ten Guided Tours Through The City of Lights! Camera! Action!, by Michael Schurmann
I was going to say “You don’t have to be a movie fan to enjoy this book.” But who among us is NOT a movie fan? And who has seen a movie set in Paris and NOT [...]
Destination: Ireland
Music: The Farthest Wave (Cathie Ryan)
Here is the second post by Kerry Dexter of Music Road. This time she talks about a recording that introduces you to Ireland.
Music for Ireland
Contemporary Ireland is a country of connection and intersection. History, myth, and legend live as part of to the present in both landscape and [...]
This is so cool, that I am devoting a whole day’s post to it:
http://amaztype.tha.jp/
Whether you think the “amaz” stands for Amazon or amazing–you are correct.
Now, just because you have this toy to find books, don’t desert A Traveler’s Library. Please.
And this may be a good time to remind you to subscribe to A Traveler’s Library [...]
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Destination: Israel
Books: The Bible; From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Freidman; Exodus by Leon Uris
Whether your interest runs to history or contemporary geo-politics, Roman ruins or Medieval times, when you travel to Israel, you will find a country that is exasperating, beautiful, inspiring, welcoming and off-putting all at the same time.
Conflict between “tribes” did not [...]
Rolf Potts and Tom Miller talked about travel writing to a lecture theater packed with Tucsonans last weekend at the Tucson Festival of Books. The secret of success, they said, may be over a volleyball net.
When traveler and writer Rolf Potts describes his career arc, it is enough to make other travel writers at least [...]
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Here we are in the brave post-modern, post-futurist world, and in this brave new world, we have options. Oh, boy, do we have options! No longer tied to the dog-eared paperback, or the family-favorite with scribblings in the margins from Great Aunts, we seek our literature with new forms of delivery. This rant, of course, [...]
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