Travel Literature
CONTEST IS OVER. The FINAL daily prize in the January Giveaway goes out today. And then I draw for the Grand Prize Winners. (See below) Destinations: Milan, New York City and Brittany in France Book: P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters (originally 2009, but NEW in English– February 2012) by Paola Calvetti I reviewed this [...]
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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 [...]
The Tiger’s Wife: Joni Seymor of Inventive Travelware. Joni won because of good Karma. A new reader, she not only commented, but she also announced the Ten Best Travel Books post on the Inventive Travelware Facebook page. Congratulations, Jonie. (And check out the interesting luggage tags on her web page.) Lonely Planet’s Great Journeys: Unfortunately the [...]
Destination: London Book: Comfort and Joy (NEW October 2011) by India Knight Cheeky! The little book just elbowed its way up in front of a stack of other books waiting to be reviewed. I could not resist the cheerful red cover festooned with Christmas lights, so after reading a few more serious books, I picked [...]
Is this how traveling makes you feel? Is this the way you want to act when you discover a wonderful travel book or movie that takes you away? We travelers who read are endlessly curious. We want to know about all the things that might make us want to travel. And when we plan our [...]
To get the entire list of books and see the rules, go to the announcement page. If you were Jonesing for one of the books that somebody else won, you can click on the book cover and go directly to Amazon to get your own copy. You’ll be happy, and anything you buy while you’re [...]
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 [...]
The blog is taking the day off today, Labor Day, but I am not. I am preparing an upcoming month full of excitement. You may have thought we used up the thrills quotient this weekend, what with finding an unidentified orange blob in a tree (Photo essay here) and having my question to Hisham Matar [...]
