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Destination: Italy Book: An Irreverent Curiosity by David Farley I love launch days for new books. Particularly when they are written by friends. An Irreverent Curiosity by David Farley, launches officially tomorrow, July 9. I’ve known David as an on-line friend for some time through the Travel Writer’s hangout known as travelwriters.com, so I [...]
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Author Candy Harrington hated Vietnam until travel to Vietnam was inspired by an unusual book about the tunnels of Cu Chi.
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Author Shelley Seale visits the “invisible” children of India like those seen in Slumdog Millionaire, and reflects on her experience of India.
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Graham Greene’s The Quiet American uses characters to represent nations and foretells the American involvement in Vietnam.
Destination: Chile and Argentina, South America Book: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin Bruce Chatwin uses one of the most engaging opening lines found in travel literature, or any other kind of literature, for that matter, to start In Patagonia (1977). The classic of travel books begins , “In my grandmother’s dining room there was a [...]
Destination: New Orleans, LA, United States Book: Nine Lives, Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum Just in case you think this book has something to do with how a tourist survives a Sazerac hangover, forget it. The latest addition to my traveler’s library tells about the lives of real people who survived [...]
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Destination: Naples, Italy Book: Naples ’44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth by Norman Lewis Have you discovered the British travel writer Norman Lewis? Between 1938 and 2003, he published 23 travel books and 15 novels that can serve as travel books. I owe my discovery of Lewis to the manager of an [...]
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Destination: Southwestern United States Book: Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink:Offbeat Travels through America’s Southwest by Tom Miller Yes, Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday, but as I am going to try to convince you, the Southwestern United States is oh, so close to Mexico. (Sometimes it is tempting to turn on its head that old [...]
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