Travel Books

pen4hire on January 23rd, 2012

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 [...]

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pen4hire on November 2nd, 2011

I have continued to give away books in the 25-Free-Book-Giveaway drawings. But unless you have been checking the Winner’s page, you have missed them.  I shipped them all out on Tuesday, and have a few left that I don’t have time to have another drawing for.  So If you would like one of the following, [...]

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pen4hire on September 23rd, 2011

I don’t usually reprint PR releases. As a matter of fact I NEVER have. But this one is so right-down-our-alley, that I decided to share the entire thing  with you. The first paragraph refers to Amazon’s plans to make e-books available for no charge to Prime customers.  If you don’t know about Amazon Prime Membership [...]

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pen4hire on September 6th, 2011

Perhaps you have been wondering where all those books are that I’ve been reviewing since our last Giveaway? Travel Memoir, travel guides, travel literature, fiction with a sense of place, travel non-fiction, travel adventure–in short, all those things we call travel books. The usual.  They’re stacked in a box that is threatening to trip Ken [...]

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pen4hire on August 24th, 2011

Has it been five years since we were in Italy? Unbelievable! But Italy stays with you once you have traveled there. Here’s another of my round-up posts (read: she’s traveling and not blogging every day).

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pen4hire on May 23rd, 2011

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 [...]

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pen4hire on April 21st, 2011

Destination: India Books: Recommendations by Holly Tucker Whenever I interview an author, I ask for his or her favorite books to influence travel.  Here are suggestions from Holly Tucker, author of Blood Work for books about India to add to the travel library. She said, “I’m fascinated anything to do with India.”

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pen4hire on February 4th, 2011

More Wandering the WWW The blog Freelancedom is running a series entitled Why I Write.  I talked about my reasons for writing in a post that went up this week. You may have guessed that it is not to get rich and famous. But my answer may surprise you.

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pen4hire on November 19th, 2010

See #1, #4,  #7, and #9 for SPECIAL DEALS for A Traveler’s Library Readers ONLY. AND, this is embarrassing, but the most perfect gift for travelers who read somehow got left off the list. So here it is: Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers by Nancy Pearl In case you are not [...]

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