Travel Reads in the Web World

By Jen Leo | August 18th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Here are some travel reads that have crossed my desk recently…hopefully you can check them out….just in case I don’t find the time.
Frank Bures’s book review of Paul Theroux’s... [Read this entry]

Late Summer Suggestions

By Sean | August 17th, 2005 | Add a Comment »

Boldtype’s latest issue is up, and they have a selection of travel books among their extra long list of summer reading suggestions. The complete list of 35 books includes short... [Read this entry]

“Hipster” Guides

By Sean | August 13th, 2005 | Add a Comment »

USA Today recently did a summary of some new “hipster guidebooks”. Here is additional information that I found about one of the publishers:
PartyEarth LLC is a Chicago-based company... [Read this entry]

Book Review: Belonging

By Sean | July 21st, 2005 | 4 Comments »

Isabel Huggan’s Belonging: Home Away From Home is a memoir of her life as experienced through the various places she has lived. Huggan shares stories about living abroad in the... [Read this entry]

Summer Reading List

By Sean | July 13th, 2005 | Add a Comment »

I know there are tons of summer reading lists floating around, but I thought the folks at Transitions Abroad deserved special props for putting together a unique selection of... [Read this entry]

InsideOut News

By Sean | May 27th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Editor and publisher of InsideOut Magazine, Helene Goupil and Josh Krist, have a new guidebook coming out this October: San Francisco, The Unknown City.
In other news, the magazine has... [Read this entry]

Women with Wanderlust

By Sean | May 20th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

GoNomad has a new article up that features ten books about travel by women. Some great suggestions here from author Kelly Westhoff, including a few mentioned previously on WR.

One of... [Read this entry]

Asia Grace

By Sean | May 18th, 2005 | Add a Comment »

Asia Grace is a unique photography book self-published by Kevin Kelly in 2002. The production notes of how this book came to be tell a truly amazing story, about... [Read this entry]

Stanfords Book and Map Store

By Sean | May 16th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

I stumbled upon the website of British map and bookseller Stanfords, which Jen mentioned in 2002. There are a few handy features on their site worth pointing out:
They’ve organized... [Read this entry]

Guide to Experimental Travel

By Sean | May 13th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel is due to release in June, so you can’t get your hands on it just yet, but I’ve gathered some early buzz about... [Read this entry]