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RANDOM WONDERFUL THINGS SEEN ON THE WEB
1. Matador. Falling on the floor funny reasons to travel.
2. .:Passion and Light:. Beautifully serious reason to travel.
3. Trip Base Spectacular travel movie locations.
4. Interlink Publishing Their Award-winning inspiring travel books:
(I have been having trouble connecting to their site, so let them know if you have a problem.)
- Syria The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami; translated by Anthea Bell Independent Publisher Book Awards 2010, Gold Medal Winner – Multicultural Fiction • Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards – Silver Medal, translations • Shortlisted for the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (winner to be announced) • Anthea Bell awarded an OBE for services to literature and translation.
- PakistanThe Geometry of God by Uzma Aslam Khan Independent Publisher Book Awards 2010, Bronze Medal Winner – Multicultural Fiction • Selected by Kirkus as one of the best books of 2009 • Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards, Multicultural Fiction – Finalist
- Lebanon The Master of the Eclipse: Stories by Etel Adnan Winner of the Arab American National Museum’s 2010 Arab American Book Awards • Etel Adnan was given the Lifetime Achievement award by the Radius of Arab American Writers Inc. (RAWI).
- England The Beatles London: A Guide to 467 Beatles Sites in and around London Independent Publisher Book Awards 2010, Bronze Medal Winner – Travel • Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards, Bronze Medal Winner – Travel Guides
5 Travel Book Sites Found on the Internet
- Indie Travel Podcast has just published my own review of National Geographic Traveler’s new travel guides to Vietnam and Argentina. (Immodest announcement.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.