Travel Books
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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Another view of 36 hours in Tucson, after the New York Times article.
Best of December and of 2009 at A Traveler’s Library. A salute to the most-read posts, most prolific commenters and referrers.
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 [...]
5 Travel Gifts found around the web.
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 [...]
Going Exploring? Need a travel book for your backpack? Win one here.
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World Traveler Keith Jenkins talks about how his urge to travel started from a book about geography.
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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 [...]






