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pen4hire on October 20th, 2009

Destination: The World Book: Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities by Frank Jacobs (Pub. date 10/29/09) My name is Vera Marie and I am addicted to maps. What is more, I do not want to be cured. Print PDF

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pen4hire on October 5th, 2009

Travel writer review’s The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner. Which country is the happiest? And other assorted trivia.

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pen4hire on August 26th, 2009

Destination: The World Magazine: Indie Travel Podcast Magazine (Available September 1, 2009) Don’t be put off by the title of this new travel magazine. Craig and Linda Martin, world travelers who started the award-winning Indie Travel Podcasts, a website and popular blog, are sticking to their brand name as they take the plunge into travel [...]

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pen4hire on August 20th, 2009

Destination: The World Book: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts Every generation of wanderers has an author of travel literature that sounds the siren call.  Walt Whitman comes to mind and Lord Byron before him.  Then the famously wild days of Jack Kerouac and On the Road. [...]

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pen4hire on July 27th, 2009

World Traveler Keith Jenkins talks about how his urge to travel started from a book about geography.

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pen4hire on June 30th, 2009

Dr. Jessie Voights of WanderingEducators.com talks about adapting to foreign culture and interviews author Mark McCrum.

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pen4hire on April 22nd, 2009

Have you read some travel books from the Earth Day reading list? Whether or not, your assignment today is to plant a tree go to a movie–no wait–you can do both at once. Disney Corporation will be planting a tree for every ticket sold to the movie Earth.  The movie opens today and the deal [...]

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pen4hire on January 30th, 2009

Added August 29, 2009, a note from Kerry Dexter. I will let you know if Laura starts up again with the geography site, but meanwhile, here’s another suggestion: Did you know that Free Rice a site that uses vocabulary games to generate donations of food for the hungry, now also has locate that country and [...]

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