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Armchair Travel April 2019
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| A Year in Paris: Season by Season in the City of Light by John BaxterWhat it is: a seasonal look at life in Paris along with a bit of history, by a prolific Australian author who's lived in the City of Light for decades.
Who it's for: those who want an insider's look at what the famed city is like each month of the year.
Reviewers say: "a quirky, affectionate portrait by an unabashed Francophile" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time... by Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey TaylerWhat happened: Two writers traveled across Russia, visiting with locals and pondering how Russia's vastness and history has helped shape its national identity and culture.
Did you know? Russian American author Nina Khrushcheva is the great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
For fans of: Lisa Dickey's Bears in the Streets, David Green's Midnight in Siberia, and other looks at lesser-known parts of Russia by astute travelers. |
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| See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy by Frances MayesWhat it is: an evocative, recipe-complemented travelogue through 13 regions of Italy by the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, who's often joined by her husband and her teenage grandson as she eats sumptuous meals in lovely locales.
Read this next: for more books that detail the good eats and fascinating sights in the off-the-beaten-path parts of Italy, pick up Elizabeth Helman Minchilli's Eating My Way Through Italy (also with recipes) or Matt Goulding's Pasta, Pane, Vino (which includes many color photos). |
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| Off the Rails: A Train Trip through Life by Beppe SevergniniWhat it is: a delightful, often wryly humorous journey with Italian journalist Beppe Severgnini (author of Ciao, America!), who shares a collection of travel stories focused on railway trips.
Trips include: his 1986 honeymoon on the Trans-Siberian railway, a trip across the Untied States with his teenage son, a railway journey across Australia, and various travels with a German journalist where they discussed their countries' different mindsets regarding travel.
For fans of: train travelogues like Tom Zoellner's Train, Tim Park's Italian Ways, or Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star. |
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The old ways : a journey on foot
by Robert Macfarlane
The acclaimed author of The Wild Places recounts his walking explorations through historical British territories, roads and sea paths, drawing on themes in natural history, cartography, archaeology and literature to illuminate such landscapes as the bird islands of the Scottish northwest and the sacred regions of the Himalayas.
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Walking With Plato : A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles
by Gary Hayden
"Trampling through moorland, fens and heaths, Hayden reflects on the meaning of life and the excesses of materialism and muses extensively on music, consulting Plato, Epicurus, Hegel and Kierkegaard along the way. Hayden, unlike many of the philosophers he consults, isn't a natural-born walker. For the first few hundred miles, he moans of sore feet and boredom. But he learns to love it and takes comfort in his journey's goal. Hayden notes that 'without a deeply felt sense of purpose even the most comfortable lives can feel sad and empty, and with such a sense of purpose even the most outwardly wretched lives can feel worthwhile.' His end-to-end walk gives him that kind of purpose. He also cautions that we pay for our comforts and that limiting our desires makes us richer and happier" (The Washington Post).
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