Title: Around the World in 80 Dates Author: Jennifer Cox Publisher: Downtown Press (2005) Henk, Anders, Solimano, Chester, Garry, Cam and Gene… names of just some of the lucky 80 who made the cut for this Love Connection meets The Amazing Race adventure of a lifetime. 80 Dates is a true tale of one woman’s […]
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Olsson’s Travel Book Sale
Olsson’s stores in DC, MD and VA are running a sale on all travel literature titles. Anything in-stock is on sale at 15% off, from now until April 28. Their staff recommendations are listed here.
» Read more...Bill Bryson: the Cliffs Notes Version
If you've only recently discovered Bill Bryson, The Age just ran a nice overview. Have beard, will travel By Jane Sullivan. “The whole trick of travel writing, he says, is to persuade people who aren’t interested that what happened to you is interesting. Some people do it with brilliant writing or insights: he does it […]
» Read more...Don George’s New Book on Travel Writing
That's write. That's right! Either way you look at it, Don George is releasing a brand new book about our favorite subject. A how-to from all the insight he’s garnered through many years of experience. Believe it or not, this is the first book that he has authored. Edited several, but this one is all […]
» Read more...Travel Writers are Self Indulgent?
Well I don't think any of us will disagree with Tom, but I'm sure we all consider ourselves the exception. Right? Me, self indulgent? Only when I’m pampering myself, talking about myself, and trying to get the attention of others. Oh wait…we’re talking about travel writing. The good, bad and the self-indulgent TRAVEL BOOKS: Around […]
» Read more...Growing Up Global
David Armstrong had a review of Growing Up Global in the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend: “Life with no homeland, many homes” Here are the nice things he has to say about the book. “Unrooted Childhoods: Memories of Growing Up Global,” edited by Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel (Nicholas Brealey, 317 pages, $23.95) is an […]
» Read more...12.05.04 Travel Book Notes
The New York Times Book Review covered travel lit today. And they talked about the travel writing profession. “Happily, the choice of literary guides is expanding, and some recent books have broadened the range of professional travel writing, a pursuit first perfected by the British, in a very American way. Rather than require authors to […]
» Read more...Sunday Travel Book Notes 11.28.04
Heaven is alone time. I'm done with the holidays and have just returned to my wireless fixated, blogging, house-hopping, eat, sleep, and brush-my-hair-whenever-I-want ways. Only now I'm going to look a tad bit cooler doing it because my cousins took me shopping and attempted to hone my eye for an outfit. But I promised you […]
» Read more...Women Adventurers in the News
Women. Women. Women. Sheesh! Just kidding. As I write up my interview for GoNomad and answer questions about why we’re doing books by and about women travelers, the ladies keep traipsing through the inbox. David Armstrong reviewed the new Ten Speed Press book, No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers by Barbara […]
» Read more...Saturday Small World Book Notes
Yesterday I got a $20 Criagslist rideshare from SF to LA from a very cool woman who is doing crazy amazing work as an assistant to biologist field researchers in Alaska. She picked me out of her many responses because I forgot to take my signature off my email and she found out I was […]
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