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The Un-Travel Book Reading Tour

Tuscan Countryside

When you comment, you will be entered to win a book about a place you probably don’t want to travel to. (See below)

Destination: Afghanistan? No. Ethiopia? No. Sudan? No. Italy? Yes.

Book: Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert.

A Guest Post by Alisa Bowman

Alisa Bowman has written Project: Happily Ever After: Saving Your Marriage When the Fairytale Falters She was good enough to visit A Traveler’s Library and share this story of reading and travel with us.

The Books I Read When I Was Grounded Continue reading The Un-Travel Book Reading Tour

Freya Stark: Classic Travel Book

Destination: Greece

Book: Ionia: A Quest,  by Freya Stark, new edition of a travel classic

Read a terrific interview with Freya Stark in her eighties.

(This is the third of a series of posts about women travel writers, in conjunction with the release of the movie Eat, Pray, Love) Continue reading Freya Stark: Classic Travel Book

Travel Lit News

OFFICIAL TRAVEL WRITER

Virgin Airlines and V-Hip Hotels choose a travel laureate, tasked with writing fiction to inspire off the beaten track travel. Our kind of guy.

COMING SOON: THE REALLY ULTIMATE TRAVEL MOVIE
Fun article by an extra in Eat PrayLove (Thanks to World Hum)

NEW ZEALAND NAMES BEST TRAVEL WRITERS AND BOOK

Under the Huang Jiao Tree by Jane Carswell won the Grand Prize. Read more at the Travcom site,  who co-sponsors of the event with Whitcoullis, an online bookstore. Other awards are sponsored by Cathay Pacific for magazine and newspaper, but not for bloggers.   (:-(