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Music Travel Monday Destination: Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Music: Celtic Colours Festival By Kerry Dexter As October brings a crisp edge to the air and leaves start to take on their autumn colors, music fills the air even more than it usually does across the island of Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia. It’s time [...]
PDF Destination: Montreal area, Canada Book: A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny (NEW 8/30/2011) from St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan Audio Thank you, Macmillan Audio, for sending me on CD just in time for my road trip to Santa Fe. A mystery is just the thing for our road [...]
Destination: Nova Scotia Book: My Famous Evening (2004) by Howard Norman Howard Norman, American writer, focuses on Nova Scotia in this eclectic book. Like one of those patchwork quilts made of individual squares that tell facets of a story, reflects Norton’s view of the essentials of Nova Scotia in an introduction and five essays/stories that [...]
Destination: Nova Scotia Book: Island: The Complete Stories (hardcover 2000, paperback Vintage copy from Random House in 2002), by Alistair MacLeod For a relatively small province of Canada, and one without major urban centers, Nova Scotia contributes quite a bit to the literary life of the country. More than a dozen small publishing companies serve [...]
Destination: Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada Book: , Edited by Kristie Miller and Robert H. McGinnis “It has been such lovely weather that just to be alive was all one wanted….” Eleanor Roosevelt in letter to Isabella Greenway in August, 1906. Isabella Greenway was the first female member of Congress form Arizona and built The [...]
Destination: North America Photography Website: Walking to Mexico by Jordan Bower A GUEST POST by Dr. Jessie Voights (Note: When I saw Jessie’s article about Jordan Bower on her web site, I asked her if she would share his wonderful adventure with the readers of A Traveler’s Library. No, it is not a book, but [...]
Destination: North America by Rail Print PDF
The Great American Road Trip Destination: The Great Lakes, Middle America (U.S. and Canada) Book: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the GREAT LAKES (2008) by Ted McClelland Print PDF
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Destination: North America Book: Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America (publisher The Vendome Press 2008) Originally published in French by Editions du Chéne (2008) Print PDF
