Travel

pen4hire on March 16th, 2010

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 Their Backs to the Sea, imagining [...]

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pen4hire on February 23rd, 2010

Travel Tuesday
Destination: Stockholm, Sweden, The Vasa Museum

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pen4hire on January 25th, 2010

Destination: Louisiana Coast
Book: Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, A Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster That Warns of a Warmer World, by Dr. Abby Sallenger
A Guest post by Dr. Jessie Voigts
I’ve got THE BEST book to share with you today. Authored by Abby Sallenger, PhD, Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, A [...]

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pen4hire on January 22nd, 2010

Great Big Travel Literature Giveaway nearing end. See bottom of post for today’s prize. And it is time to hint at the Final Grand Prize, to be given away next Friday, January 29–it is a stylish way to carry all those travel books.
France on Friday
Book: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten [...]

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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 19th, 2010

Art, artists and art museums inspire travel. 10 Most popular art reproductions.

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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 17th, 2009

5 Travel Gifts found around the web.

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