Travel Books
Destination: Everywhere or the Armchair Book: Book Lust To Go by Nancy Pearl NEW September, 2010 Nancy Pearl travels the world from her easy chair. The prototypical armchair traveler, a former librarian and bookseller who suggests books and interviews authors on radio and TV, attracts crowds of fans.
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I have one VERY exciting piece of information to share with you, about a tour company for Independent Travelers–just our speed.
1. Matador. Falling on the floor funny reasons to travel. 2. .:Passion and Light:. Beautifully serious reason to travel. 3. Trip Base Spectacular travel movie locations. 4. Interlink Publishing Their Award-winning inspiring travel books: (I have been having trouble connecting to their site, so let them know if you have a problem.) Syria The Dark [...]
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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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A GREAT TRAVEL BOOK GIVEAWAY II CONTINUES Keep commenting and Tweeting. If you have not yet subscribed, remember that an e-mail subscription gets you an update every time I post, but ALSO two chances in the drawings. There will be one more drawing tonight, and winners of prizes 6 through 10 will be notified in [...]
Destinations: France, Bruges, Amsterdam Traveler’s Library: Growing Daily with guidebooks, maps, notes…. It occurred to me that you might be interested in the trip planning process that goes on in our book-filled house. So here goes.
A radio show with some big name travel writers discussing travel writing. 100 Travel Novels
THIS CONTEST IS OVER–KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR NEXT CONTEST AT A TRAVELER’S LIBRARY BY SUBSCRIBING SO YOU DO NOT MISS AN ANNOUNCEMENT. GRAND PRIZE WINNERS: 5/25: WINNER OF DU PONTS HOUSES AND GARDENS IN THE BRANDYWINE: CONNIE ONG 5/28:Grand Prize Number Two: Inge Morath’s Iran: Kerry Dexter Grand Prize Number Three: Coast to Coast: [...]
On April 29, Edgar awards for best mysteries published in 2009 will be announced. I am delighted that the publicist sent me four books of the six nominated in the mystery novel category to look over.
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