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5 Travel Book Sites Found on the Internet

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Adventure World Map
World Travel Map
  1. Indie Travel Podcast has just published my own review of National Geographic Traveler’s new travel guides to Vietnam and Argentina. (Immodest announcement.)
  2. Great Site: Private Library, will help you build a library of your own, and tell you all the sources for books and how to get them at rock bottom prices. Here’s a 3-part series on books on railroads that you may love.
  3. A President’s Wife goes traveling: New York Times review of new book about Mrs. John Quincy Adams’ journey from St. Petersburg Russia to Paris.
  4.  If you are traveling to bookstores, I would add the Singing Wind Bookstore, located on a ranch in a remote area of Southern Arizona. Fascinating owner and great collection of books.
  5. Just launched in May. Trip News Wire.  All the news items a world traveler needs. (March 2015: No longer live)

Don’t you love that map? If you click on it you learn that it shows sites of famous travel adventures around the world. Here’s the caption on Flickr: A poster featuring cartooned representations of worldwide famous stories. Woo Hoo! Let’s Go.

News at the Traveler's Library

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  • Keep your eyes open and you will see some changes at the Traveler’s Library in the next few weeks, as I complete
    Book Shelves
    Book Shelves

    the 31-day Blogging Challenge sponsored by the guru of blogging, Darren Rowse. There simply is no better source of information for bloggers on the web than Darren Rowse’s blog.

  • One change that has nothing to do with the Blogging Challenge appeared a few days ago at the top of the right-hand column. Click on it and it will take you to a site called Bloggers Unite, and the description of an effort by bloggers to help Heifer International, those great folks that help people around the globe find the means to feed themselves.  Be sure to cruise on over to the Traveler’s Library on Wednesday, April 29, I will present an interview with the head of Heifer’s Travel program and pass on her travel book recommendations for some of the Heifer Travel destinations. Check Heifer’s Web Site and see if you can join the fun during April events.
  • Just a reminder that this coming week is (allegedly) William Shakespeare’s birthday. It is on the 23rd–or maybe the 22nd–or maybe he wasn’t even a playwright so we should forget the whole thing.  Stay tuned. We’ll be talking about Shakespeare.
  • Busy week , because we also have Earth Day on April 22. But you already have your reading assignments for Earth Day travels to the Southwestern United States. Continue reading News at the Traveler's Library →

Read it in New Ways

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Here we are in the brave post-modern, post-futurist world, and in this brave new world, we have options. Oh, boy, do we have options! No longer tied to the dog-eared paperback, or the family-favorite with scribblings in the margins from Great Aunts, we seek our literature with new forms of delivery.  This rant, of course, is pushed along by the announcement of the 2nd iteration of the Kindle–Amazon’s great gift to humankind.  Much has been said about the Kindle, which allows us to travel with dozens of our favorite books taking up mere ounces in our luggage.

Flashlight Worthy Books‘ founders Peter and Eric debate the worth of Kindle with solid arguments on both sides.

Christian Science Monitor rounds up a bunch of reviews in an article on the launch of Kindle II. If you read down in the comments, you will see a link to a very thorough well rounded review.

Then there’s the inevitable funny, personal and negative blogger’s take. Continue reading Read it in New Ways →