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To Western eyes, coming from countries where church is separated from daily life, clergy is separated from the general populace, and you believe in one creed at a time, there was a lot to get used to in Cambodia. For one thing, most boys from Buddhist families become monks at some time in their lives, and [...]
Destination: 16th Century Venice, Malta Book: The Midwife of Venice, NEW April 2012 by Roberta Rich There is a corner of Venice, away from the bustle and hustlers of the Rialto and San Marcos that seems too austere to be part of the self-consciously gilded and carved and painted face of the city. While the [...]
Destination: Italy Book: A Small Place in Italy (1994; Lonely Planet paperback 1998,2008) by Eric Newby Eric Newby’s travel writing does not show off. As hinted by the title of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, about a treacherous hike over mountains in northern Afghanistan, he mastered understatement So what makes his travel writing [...]
England Week This week is all about England. Yesterday we talked about a mystery novel based on Shakespeare, today it is movies and Friday we’ll look at a popular T.V. series–all of which lure travelers to England. FILM INVITATIONS TO VISIT the U.K. A Guest Post by Traveler’s Bro FIVE BEST BRITAIN MOVIES (for architecture, interiors, [...]
ENGLAND WEEK Destination: England, and in the U.S., Cambridge MA and the Southwest, including Shakespeare, New Mexico. Book: Interred With Their Bones (2007) by Jennifer Lee Carrell I have watched Tucsonan Jennifer Lee Carrell‘s writing career as she progressed from a Smithsonian internship to local theater reporting in Tucson, to a best selling book on [...]
Earth Day Travel Each year in April, the U. S. National Parks open their doors for free. (Many parks are free all year long, but more than 100 of the 397 parks have a charge.) During National Parks Week, April 21-April 29,coinciding with Earth Day, you can enter parks from Alaska’s Denali to Yosemite in [...]
This is week two of Cambodia pictures at A Traveler’s Library. Cambodia was one of my favorite destinations ever. Partly because I had waited so long to go there. Partly because during the 1970′s I thought it would be impossible to ever get there. So when I had a chance in 1999, I was thrilled. [...]
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Destination: Rome, Lake Como, Italy Book: , by Jean Govoni Salvadore The energy and winning personality of this 84-year-old memoirist shine through My Dolce Vita, her memories of working in Rome for TWA and at the classic hotel Villa d’Este on Lake Como. Since both those jobs (as of the writing of the book, she [...]
Destination: Iran Book: We Heard the Heavens Then (A Memoir of Iran) NEW April 10, 2012, by Aria Minu-Sepehr
