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Armchair Travel April 2019
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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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A Girl Named Lovely : One Child's Miraculous Survival and My Journey to the Heart of Haiti
by Catherine Porter
What happens: After an earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010, Toronto Star reporter Catherine Porter found her first story moments after arriving in the earthquake's aftermath. A two-year-old girl named Lovely had survived six days under the debris and she was eventually reunited with her family. Over the next five years, Catherine continued to support Lovely and her family financially and she learned that although she couldn't fix every problem in Lovely's life, she could provide her with hope.
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The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific With a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing...
by Doug Bock Clark
What it is: An eye-opening, lyrical account of Doug Bock Clark's immersive visits over many years to a remote Indonesian island. There, many indigenous Lamaleran live as they have for centuries, but their traditional way of life is threatened as the modern world encroaches.
Want a taste? "As the six impromptu crews chased after the white spouts contrasting against the dark waves and stormy sky, they sang."
Did you know? Aboriginal subsistence hunts are allowed by the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.
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The tao of travel : enlightenments from lives on the road
by Paul Theroux
What it is: A literary handbook by the acclaimed author of Ghost Train to the Eastern Star celebrates a half-century of travel that intersperses excerpts from Theroux's works with selections that have inspired him.
About the author: Paul Edward Theroux was born on April 10, 1941 in Medford, Massachusetts and is an acclaimed travel writer.
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Little princes : one man's promise to bring home the lost children of Nepal
by Conor Grennan
What it is: Describes how the author's three-month service as a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal became a passionate commitment for advocacy and reform when he discovered that many of his young charges were victims rescued from human traffickers.
Reviewers say: Grennan is the rare author who can aptly and skillfully tell of his own awakening; he beautifully and melodiously renders the many accents he encountered along his journey. Listeners will be moved; for anyone interested in Nepalese history, humanitarian work, and meaningful self-betterment.
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Paris in love : a memoir
by Eloisa James
What it is: Chronicles the year that the author and her family lived in Paris, describing her walking tours of the city, her school-age children's attempts to navigate foreign language schools, and her thoughts on the pleasures of French living.
Reviewers say: Her chic, charming, and completely captivating memoir of a healing year in the City of Light is bound to inspire readers to dream of setting off on their own escapes.
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Girl in the woods : a memoir
by Aspen Matis
What it is: After suffering an emotional trauma, the author seeks healing in the freedom of the wild, on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail leading from Mexico to Canada, during which she came to terms with her sexual assault and her parents disappointing reaction, and found strength, hope, love and acceptance.
Reviewers say: readers who decide to accompany Matis on the PCT will find themselves in for an engrossing, often suspenseful journey with a rewarding outcome.
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