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.
The Governor's Palace, Palermo, Sicily
Movie: The Leopard (1963), Starring Bert Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon
John Keahey,the author of Seeking Sicily, calls the book, The Leopard, (not to be confused with Jo Nesbo’s latest mystery by the same name) a blockbuster and essential reading to understand Sicily. Although I’d like to read the book (1956) some day, I cheated and watched the movie, made in 1963. Read the rest of this entry »
PDF Tags: Alan Delain, Bert Lancaster, BlogSherpa, classic movie, Claudia Cardinale, historic movie, Italy, Netflix, Roger Ebert, Sicily, The Leopard
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.
Castle of Erice, Sicily, Photograph by John Keahey
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 starts with a book, (But of course!) and continues with repeated travels and extended stays in Sicily. His wander lust, he tells us, was born even earlier, in a Carnegie Library. Clearly we are going to like this guy! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, book review, giveaway, Lampedusa, Palermo, Racalmuto, Siascia, Sicily, The Leopard, travel books, travel literature
Check the winners list for the latest winners in the January Birthday Giveaway. Only a few prizes left to draw. Remember, EVERYBODY who comments or joins, or tells me they want their older subscription entered, will have an entry in the Grand Prize Drawing at the end of the month. Win a Shawshank Redempton fan package, or a pair of OKA b shoes.
Now on to a great book for your trip to France and a Giveaway book on another country…..
Read about France, win a book about Portugal. See below.
NOTE: The Arizona State Alumni magazine wrote about Kristin Espinasse in December 2011. You can read it here.
Destination: France
Book: Blossoming in Provence by Kristin Espinasse
You might think at first glance that a beautiful blond from Arizona who goes to Paris to study and winds up marrying an impossibly handsome Frenchman who starts a successful vineyard where they live in Provence and have two children….you might think that is pretty much a fairy tale life. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, France, French- vocabulary, memoir, photography, Provence, rouge-bleu wine, travel book review, vineyards
Today one lucky person will win a copy of a new novel, reviewed recently that has nothing in particular to do with windows and hotels, but a lot to do with looking. See below. And remember you must enter by tomorrow morning.
Two weeks ago we looked at a variety of windows from the outside.
Here are views from some views from the inside of various lodgings that we particularly enjoyed.
The Dashiell Hammett Room at Union Square Hotel, San Francisco
Tags: Chicago, giveaway, hotel photos, Italy, Le Marche, New York City, Rome, Salzburg, San Francisco, Sedona, travel photos, windows
Please check the Cherokee Trip Post if you are interested in that trip, because the final date for reservation is actually February 1–a correction from the original date shown.
Something a little different today, and a spectacular prize book that matches. See below.
The “Emissaries of Peace,” led by Ostenaco and Cherokee leaders Cunne Shote and Woyi, traveled to London and met with King George III in May 1762. They were accompanied by Junior Officer Ensign Henry Timberlake. The engraving is titled: “The Three Cherokees, came over the head of the River Savanna to London, 1762. / Their interpreter was poisoned.” (Photo courtesy of the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Okla.)
These imposing gentlemen–with their fierce-looking tattoos and exotic costumes composed of a mixture of native American materials like deer skin pants and the latest borrowings from European civilization, like pajama tops– were an anti-war movement. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Cherokee, historic travel. historic tour, London, Oklahoma, peace mission
Tasty Travel Tuesday
Destination: China/America
Book: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee
By Brette Sember
Chinese New Year is January 23 this year, and brings in the year of the dragon, which sounds bold and flavorful like Szechuan Chinese food. What better time to explore China and think about whether American Chinese food is in fact Chinese at all. Jennifer 8. Lee does just this in The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, one of the most in-depth, well-researched food history books to be found. It’s also simply a lot of fun because Lee takes the reader on a journey not only across the U.S. and China, but to many other parts of the world as she tackles three main questions. Read the rest of this entry »
Notice: Your odds of winning keep improving as people who have won a daily prize are eliminated from the drawing. Besides, an entry today might win you a terrific mystery book AND an chance at the Grand Prize.
Destination: Seville, Spain
Book: The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson (2003)
Seville Plaza de Espana
How can such a distressing and dark mystery novel keep propelling me through its pages? Partly because it is set in the city of Seville, known for its joyous celebration of life. Robert Wilson captures the spirit of Seville throughout The Blind Man of Seville. Perhaps his best depiction comes in his description of Feria de Abril: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, book review, Expo 92, Mystery novel, psychological thriller, Robert Wilson, Santa Semana, Seville, Spain, travel to Spain
