Travel Books

pen4hire on January 19th, 2010

Early I reviewed the readers‘ favorites at A Traveler’s Library in 2009, now my favorite ten oldie  books and new books for travelers listed at Wandering Educators. Were they YOUR favorite travel literature, guidebooks and travel essays?

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pen4hire on January 8th, 2010

Another view of 36 hours in Tucson, after the New York Times article.

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pen4hire on January 6th, 2010

Best of December and of 2009 at A Traveler’s Library. A salute to the most-read posts, most prolific commenters and referrers.

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pen4hire on December 18th, 2009

France on Friday
Book: France, A Traveler’s Literary Companion, Edited by William Rodarmor and Anna Livia

Whereabouts Press serves a narrow niche of the traveling public–those who want to read literature written by the locals–in bite size form.  To me, the books are similar to books like Art Guide to Italy–a 101 survey course meant to whet [...]

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pen4hire on December 17th, 2009

5 Travel Gifts found around the web.

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pen4hire on October 2nd, 2009

BEST 20 TRAVEL BOOKS?
London Times on Line lists the best 20 travel books of the last century plus a video, “What books made you want to travel?” answered by Alexander McCall Smith and Colin Thubron. Don’t miss the video!
Oh dear, William Dalrymple is not on the list of best travel literature! Ahh, but see the [...]

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pen4hire on July 31st, 2009

Going Exploring? Need a travel book for your backpack?  Win one here.

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pen4hire on July 27th, 2009

World Traveler Keith Jenkins talks about how his urge to travel started from a book about geography.

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pen4hire on July 17th, 2009

What is this notion that we need some sort of different reading list in the summer?  Once you are out of school, in America, at least, you don’t have long, uninterrupted periods of time to read. I tend to read on the airplane, and put the books away at my destination. Too busy looking at [...]

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