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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 [...]
Destination: Paris Book: The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris (NEW June 2011) by John Baxter In , John Baxter tells stories that add depth to a stroll through Paris. The Australian writer lives in the city of literature and art with his French wife and their young daughter.
Destination: United States East Coast Intracoastal Waterway Book: Gib’s Odyssey: A Tale of Faith and Hope on the Intracoastal Waterway (NEW: May, 2011) by Walter G. Bradley Since I have never owned a boat, I don’t generally go looking for the equivalent of a road trip by boat. Therefore, I am not familiar with all [...]
50th Birthday of the Peace Corps! Destination: Gabon, Africa Book: How to Cook a Crocodile by Bonnie L. Black I raced through How to Cook a Crocodile by Bonnie Lee Black, wanting to know what adventure the next day would bring. I liked nearly everything about this memoir with [...]
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Books for the Arab World in Troubled Times Destination: Middle East Book: Dining with Al Qaeda (2010)by Hugh Pope Every Monday for a while now, I’ve been writing about books that might shed some light on the current internal struggles of countries in the Middle East (as well as Iraq and Afghanistan as the center [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Southern Arizona Book: Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton (1992) Welcome to my part of the country. Somehow when choosing a book to represent Arizona, I could not resist fastening on my own little corner–southern Arizona–desert country. Like New Mexico, Arizona’s spectacular scenery climbs from desert to mountain [...]
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Destination: Kenya, Africa Book: Unbowed by Wangari Maathai A GUEST POST by Gayle Pescud I was in a modern bookstore for the first time in months in January, getting well and truly high on the smell of new books (we live in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Region of Ghana, 18 hours from Accra, the capital), [...]
Destination: Naples, Italy Book: Naples ’44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth by Norman Lewis Have you discovered the British travel writer Norman Lewis? Between 1938 and 2003, he published 23 travel books and 15 novels that can serve as travel books. I owe my discovery of Lewis to the manager of an [...]
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