Category: Travel Books

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 releasing their first title, Party Europe 2005, The Supplemental Guide to Fun and Social Travel, highlighting all that’s fun to do in 14 European cities. They […]

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 south of France, the Philippines, Kenya and Tasmania, while also recalling memories from her childhood in Canada. The chapters float about, unhitched to a particular […]

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 travel books to choose from. Parts of their July/August issue are online, but as far as I could tell, not this list. In the print version, […]

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 a blog, InsideOut and About, which I somehow managed to miss the past few months, and they are planning a Happy Hour in France, which […]

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 the books she reviews is Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals – Adventures in Love and Danger by Wendy Dale, which I finished […]

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 a fantastic labor of love that took over 30 years to create. The photos in the book came from Kelly’s personal collection of over 40,000 images […]

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 their travel books into categories: Anthologies, How to be a Travel Writer, Literary Guides, and a Classics section with an interesting (although not comprehensive) author […]

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 this out-of-the-ordinary travel guide. (click the book cover to the right for a larger image…Jen is absolutely dying to get this framed and up in […]

I was thrilled to see that one of my favorite bookstores, Distant Lands, was the featured bookstore in The Book Standard. But I caught it through an email and I’d never heard of this cool newsletter/magazine before. And you know how I feel about being the last to know. Other good news about this article […]

My mother, a librarian, often suggests travel titles or writers she comes across. About a year ago, she mentioned Alice Steinbach, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author who hails from Baltimore, where I currently live. A local author AND a travel writer — my curiosity was peaked. I purchased both of Steinbach’s non-fiction travelogues […]