Library
Before you complain, let me make it clear that I know your intentions are purely altruistic. You are not concerned with winning anything. You are just focused on building two libraries in Zambia with Room to Read, so that kids who want to read will have a chance to do so. Just like you, they [...]
Indie Travel Podcast has just published my own review of National Geographic Traveler’s new travel guides to Vietnam and Argentina. (Immodest announcement.) Great Site: Private Library, will help you build a library of your own, and tell you all the sources for books and how to get them at rock bottom prices. Here’s a 3-part [...]
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Keep your eyes open and you will see some changes at the Traveler’s Library in the next few weeks, as I complete the 31-day Blogging Challenge sponsored by the guru of blogging, Darren Rowse. There simply is no better source of information for bloggers on the web than Darren Rowse’s blog. One change that has [...]
Here we are in the brave post-modern, post-futurist world, and in this brave new world, we have options. Oh, boy, do we have options! No longer tied to the dog-eared paperback, or the family-favorite with scribblings in the margins from Great Aunts, we seek our literature with new forms of delivery. This rant, of course, [...]
Easy to find both travel romance and book romance around the web this time of year. Maybe it has something to do with Valentine’s Day?? Sherman’s Travel, 10 romantic small inns and hotels. Most romantic trips. Do you agree, or do you have other nominees? Tips for romantic travel Light a candle and more. (Whoops! [...]
Destination: ITALY Books: By Tim Parks– A Season with Verona; Italian Neighbors; An Italian Education The Ohio State University Buckeyes played the Texas Longhorns at the Fiesta Bowl. Texas won. This caused deep gloom to settle over our house. I am not an every-day sports fan. But I pay attention when The Ohio State University [...]
Book: Mozart, A Cultural Biography by Robert Gutman Destination: Salzburg Don’t take the Sound of Music tour. Don’t tell an Austrian how much you like the Sound of Music. For heavens’ sake, don’t walk down the Getreidegasse humming “Eidelweiss” from The Sound of Music. I had been warned before I went to Salzburg that Austrians [...]
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Book: Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, by Sharon Waxman Destinations: Greece, Turkey, Egypt and the British Museum in London, Metropolitan Museum in NYC, the Louvre in Paris, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles Welcome to my traveler’s library. Have you ever wondered how the lovely antiquities from some [...]
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