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Destination: Istanbul Book: Strolling Through Istanbul, The Classic Guide to the City by Hilary Sumner-Boyd & John Freely (Originally published 1972;NEW edition, 2010) I try to imagine strolling the streets of Istanbul, but I am hampered by the perennial action movie shots–camera zooming overhead as swarthy men race through narrow passage ways, overturning carts of [...]
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Destination: Southern Arizona Book: Historic Walking Guides: Tombstone & Bisbee Arizona (NEW 2010) by Jane Eppinga Curious staffers of other Congressmen go into the office of an Arizona Congressman, look at the map, and point with wonder at Tombstone. “You mean that’s a real place?”
Put Your Place on the Map Have you read a book or movie that really nailed your state, your region, your country? The place where you live? What reading or viewing do you recommend to people who want to see what your territory is like? Add your choices to A Traveler’s Library.
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Memo to: Readers of A Travelers’ Library From: A Traveling Reader This morning was the wrap-up on Twitter by all the people who participated in the blogging marathon. Now I’m off on another sort of marathon–checking in to Likaholix most every day. If you have not seen it, take a look. It would be a [...]
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Destination: Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico Books: The Many Faces of Mata Ortiz, several contributors Keith Jenkins, over at Velvet Escape, asked me if I had met anybody inspirational in my travels. Keith is a true world traveler, and an excellent writer, besides. I felt honored to write a guest post for the series, that Keith [...]
5/25/2010 The Amaztype website seems to have disappeared. Maybe Amazon got mad at them? Well, A Traveler’s Library still exists! This is so cool, that I am devoting a whole day’s post to it: http://amaztype.tha.jp/ Whether you think the “amaz” stands for Amazon or amazing–you are correct. Now, just because you have this toy to [...]
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Deep gratitude to Monica Bhide for her guest posts, which brought scads of new readers to A Traveler’s Library. I have rearranged stuff, added buttons and made it easier for you to subscribe to A Traveler’s Library, and I hope you will take advantage of that big orange button to the right. I woke up [...]
Today I traveled to Africa. It only took a half hour to get there, since I was driving to the south in Tucson to the AfricanVillage, part of the Tucson Gem Show. Great crafts, carvings, masks, beaded cloth, and a food booth with good African cooking. I talked with a vendor who explained this mask [...]
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Robert Louis Stevenson The works of Robert Louis Stevenson will soon be on line. Why should we travelers care? Because Stevenson penned not only the well known Treasure Island, from which all pirate novels spring, but, as Katherine Ryder says, he was a travel writer and champion of leisure. She suggests we read An Apology [...]
