Books
As much as the Traveler’s Library would like to think it is unique in the world…it isn’t. Get over yourself, Library–there are others doing good work with travel literature. Biblio Travel is a site presided over by a couple of librarians with contributions from a wide variety of people. You type in a country, region, [...]
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Destination: Guatemala Sponsor: Heifer International Books: See List Below Today I would like to issue a challenge. But first, a little explanation. My favorite charity, Heifer International, fights hunger around the world by providing goats, sheep, chickens, honey bees, and, yes, heifers, to farmers so that they can begin to be self-sufficient and feed their [...]
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Destination: Australia Books: In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Conversations at Curlow Creek and Remembering Babylon by David Malouf Mike Cadogan, the commenter known as sandandsurf came up with a site for people looking for books about Australia and two specific books. Cadogan recommended Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country. Bryson is a favorite [...]
Why read old stuff when there is so much new stuff? Because what was written by the ancients, or by travelers in earlier centuries, can give today’s traveler a sense of the underpinnings of today’s culture of a place. I have already sung the praises of using Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian Wars as a [...]
Destination: Vietnam Books: The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh Hell in a Very Small Place and Street Without Joy by Bernard Fall The Quiet American by Graham Greene Today I am giving you some more book recommendations for Vietnam, and a question. Have you recently seen the Continental Hotel in Saigon? Traveler’s Bro wants [...]
Keep your eyes open and you will see some changes at the Traveler’s Library in the next few weeks, as I complete the 31-day Blogging Challenge sponsored by the guru of blogging, Darren Rowse. There simply is no better source of information for bloggers on the web than Darren Rowse’s blog. One change that has [...]
Destination: Earth Books: Wind and the Rock by Ann Zwinger The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell Undaunted Courage, by Stephen E. Ambrose Maybe I’m being species-centric here, but I’m assuming that everyone who is reading this is interested in traveling somewhere on the planet Earth. Therefore, I’m also [...]
5/25/2010 The Amaztype website seems to have disappeared. Maybe Amazon got mad at them? Well, A Traveler’s Library still exists! 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 [...]
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Just as we got rolling with reader suggestions coming in for the 10 places I need books for, I found these articles. Recent travel literature reviewed by Don George at National Geographic. Eight Books You Shouldn’t Travel Without by Frank Bures at World Hum. And I almost forgot about Brooklyn Nomad’s piece with good recommendations. [...]
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