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Travel Books

Tour the World’s Smallest “Nations”

June 5, 2008

Lonely Planet’s Micro Nations is a travel guide book with a difference. It’s a tour of the world’s “micro nations” – tiny pieces of land that think they’re legitimate nations. Technically speaking, some of them are, at least according to a 1993 convention, but neither the United Nations or any other “real” country agree.

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Louis Theroux Calls Out the Weird of America

May 29, 2008

The Call of the Weird

A road trip often makes for a good travel story, and Louis Theroux’s strange drive around the United States to create his book Call of the Weird is no exception. The book’s subtitle, “Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers and Ike Turner” gives you a taste of what Theroux came [...]

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Discover Tony Horwitz’s Long, Strange Voyage

May 22, 2008

A Voyage Long and Strange

Tony Horwitz has got a new book out, and before you even open it you can have a strong feeling that it’s going to be a good read. Horwitz is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist who likes to get out and about in the world, and to look back into history [...]

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Will Thomas Kohnstamm Go To Hell With Other Travel Writers?

May 15, 2008

Travel guide book writer Thomas Kohnstamm is probably delighted with the media storm that surrounded the recent release of his book Do Travel Writers Go To Hell?. Its long subtitle, A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism seems to sum up what’s been reported about Kohnstamm and the book lately.

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Get Your Australian English Phrasebook

May 8, 2008

Did you think they spoke English in Australia? Well, sometimes they do, but the “Aussie” language has quite a few differences to American or British English. The third edition to Lonely Planet’s phrasebook came out last year and it’s both an interesting and a useful book to take with you on a journey Down Under.

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From the Tuscan Sun to the World of Frances Mayes

May 1, 2008

If you haven’t read Frances Mayes Under the Tuscan Sun, you’ll at least have heard of it or its several sequels. Mayes and her husband renovated an old villa in Tuscany and she quickly became known as the travel writing queen for all things Tuscan. But recently, she released a new book called A Year [...]

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Pico Iyer’s Sun After Dark Takes You Around the World

April 24, 2008

Pico Ayer Sun After Dark

Pico Iyer is a travel writer who’s nearly always worth reading. He’s never going to tell you about mainstream tourism or souvenir hunting, but when you’re in the mood to get into the deep reality of what traveling actually does to us, then Iyer is a good bet.

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Learn Before You Travel with Rick Steves’ Europe 101

April 11, 2008

Rick Steves Europe 101 History and Art for the Traveler

If you’re not a history buff or a real art lover, there might be a lot of sights around Europe that just don’t really excite you. Rick Steves’ Europe 101 might be the answer if you want to appreciate more than just the Mona Lisa [...]

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Bill Bryson’s Travels Through Australia

April 2, 2008

In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson, a travel guide for visiting Australia

Many people dream of taking a vacation in Australia, that paradise “Down Under”. But from most parts of the world it’s a long and expensive flight away, and remains something they can only dream about. In that case, reading about a trip to [...]

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Read Holy Cow! To Prepare for a Trip to India

March 25, 2008

Sarah Macdonald Holy Cow Travel Guide for visiting India

If you’re planning a trip to India any time soon, get hold of Sarah Macdonald’s Holy Cow! to prepare you for some of what you might find in this fascinating country.
Macdonald is an Australian journalist who ended up living in New Delhi for two years when her [...]

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The 50 Best Places on Earth For a Girl to Travel Alone by Teresa Rodriguez Williamson

August 20, 2007

What if you have the desire to travel, but perhaps you don’t have a significant other or a set of friends that serve as a travel buddy? Most women will experience this at one point in their life. Unfortunately, some women get hung up on this and miss out on travel adventures of a lifetime. [...]

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