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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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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 [...]
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. [...]
World Traveler Keith Jenkins talks about how his urge to travel started from a book about geography.
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Dr. Jessie Voights of WanderingEducators.com talks about adapting to foreign culture and interviews author Mark McCrum.
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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 [...]
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 [...]