Travel
Wednesday Matinee Destination: Anchorage, Barrow, and Fort Richardson, Alaska Movie: Big Miracle (NEW 2012), Directed by Ken Kwapis Review by Jane Boursaw Reel Rating*: 4 out of 5 Reels There’s something really compelling about whales. Is it their size and power? The fact that they swim in the ocean underneath our tiny boats? Or the [...]
PDF CULTURE TRAVEL TUESDAY Destination: The Imagination Book: Cloak, by James Gough (NEW YA Fantasy– 2012) Interview by Dr. Jessie Voigts Have you ever seen a rat on the subway–not a real rat, per se, but maybe a half-rat, half-human? Or have you been tended to by an owl doctor– not a doctor for owls, but [...]
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Feb 6, 2012: CONNIE ONG is definitely on a roll. Last week I announced that she was one of the grand prize winners in the January Giveaway. This week I’m announcing that she got the most correct answers to the question of Who is associated with each of the photos below. After I added clues, [...]
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Destinations: Monte Carlo, Paris, London Book: White Truffles in Winter (a novel) by N. M. Kelby This fictionalized biography of the great French chef, Auguste Escoffier– – is delicious, scandalous, lascivious, luscious… The writing is lush. The author, N. M. Kelby, paints the portrait of a man obsessed with luscious food and delicious women. But [...]
CONTEST IS OVER. The FINAL daily prize in the January Giveaway goes out today. And then I draw for the Grand Prize Winners. (See below) Destinations: Milan, New York City and Brittany in France Book: P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters (originally 2009, but NEW in English– February 2012) by Paola Calvetti I reviewed this [...]
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Sicily Week Destination: Sicily Book: The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed, by Norman Lewis (Original-1964 with postscript added in 1984; reviewed edition 2003.) If you were playing word-association, Sicily-Mafia might be your first reaction. seems to me to be a perfect addition to a library of travel literature– if you read it along with Seeking [...]
CONTEST OVER! Today one lucky person will win a lovely classic travel book, reprinted by Tauris Paperbacks and distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave. See details at the bottom of the post. In the city of Venice, where so much is hidden behind doors and glimpses at life inside a window seem a stolen pleasure, [...]
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CONTEST OVER! Your prize today is movie/travel related. Enter before 3:00 a.m.MST Thursday morning. See how to win below. And remember every comment and new subscription counts toward the two grand prizes, even if you’ve won a daily prize. Movie: The Leopard (1963), Starring Bert Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon John Keahey,the author of [...]
CONTEST OVER Today the very appropriate Giveaway Prize is the book that is being reviewed–by an author that loves literature as much as travel. Entries good until Wednesday morning. Please see details below. Sicily Week at A Traveler’s Library Destination: Sicily Book: Seeking Sicily (NEW November 2011) by John Keahey John Keahey‘s effort to understand Sicily [...]
