Travel Book
Great American Road Trip Destination: New Jersey, (plus a little of Connecticut and Cooperstown, New York.) Book: Independence Day (1995) by Richard Ford. This Book won PULITZER Prize for Literature AND Pen-Faulkner Fiction Prize. Let’s hope that Richard Ford is not reading this.
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Destination: Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Book: Their Backs to the Sea(2009) by Margaret Randall (review copy supplied by Wings Press, San Antonio) In her journey to Easter Island, the well-traveled Margaret Randall, came to a place more remote than any she had visited or lived in before. The introductory stanzas of , imagining the arrival [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: New Hampshire Book: The Good, Good Pig:The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood, by Sy Montgomery. Where would we be without librarians?
The First Grand Prize in the Great Big Travel Literature Giveaway is: Where to Go When: The Americas (American Edition 2008) edited by Joseph Rosendo, published by DK/Eyewitness Travel When I first saw this beautiful travel book full of photographs, I assumed that it was about festivals and events. Yes, it has those, but it [...]
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The Great American Road Trip You know that shivery feeling you get, when it is time to go, and you are wanting to bolt out the door, but you have to check that the stove is turned off, and you’re kind of nervous but you can’t stop smiling? That’s how I feel as I write [...]
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The 2nd edition of the Indie Travel Podcast Magazine arrived December 1. This issue is even better than the first issue, and that is quite an accomplishment. Craig and Linda Martin, the ever-traveling, ever-creative New Zealanders, have outdone themselves.
Destination: Anywhere the train goes Book: Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service by James McCommons (released Nov.5) My brother-in-law, Wayne Price is a foamer. My sister doesn’t deny it, although he might. I know that he has filled an entire room with an exquisite miniature railroad, all scenery made by [...]
Destination: Marshall Islands, Pacific Book: Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island by Peter Rudiak-Gould (Released November 3)
