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Armchair Travel February 2019
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What it's about: Travel writer Seth Kugel encourages travelers to stop relying too heavily on technology and the travel industry and embrace discovery; he also shares amusing stories of memorable moments and misadventures of his own as well as offering budgeting tips, calculating travel risks, and exploring why we travel.
About the author: Kugel wrote The New York Times’ incredibly popular Frugal Traveler column for six years and now hosts two YouTube channels, Amigo Gringo and Globally Curious. |
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Fodor's essential Hawaii
by Karen Anderson
Provides information on Hawaiian history and culture, and offers recommendations for lodging, restaurants, sightseeing, shopping, entertainment, and natural landmarks
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The Soul of a Great Traveler : 10 Years of Solas Award-winning Travel Stories by James O'Reilly
For ten years the editors of Travelers' Tales have run a writing competition to find the best travel story of the year: The Solas Awards. Over those years, thousands of stories have come across their desks, from writers famous and unknown, covering all corners of the globe with stories of adventure and discovery, love and loss, humor and absurdity, grief and joy. In this collection appear all of the top prize winners of the last ten years, stories that bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting, and, very often, transformative. These tales are powerful, moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places. In this book, readers will: Deposit a loved one's ashes in a Bolivian River. Find the Celtic soul you never knew you had in rural Ireland. Grope through the maze of sorcery and madness in Cameroon. Rediscover your sense of self on a return to Russia after many years away. Follow the spirit of John Wesley Powell down the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Engage loss and the specter of death in Mexico. Face your deepest fears alone in an Alaskan winter. Encounter the realities of prostitution in Thailand. Absorb the rhythms and soul of Flamenco in Spain. Fall in love with a home in rural France and make it your own...and much more.
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Focus on: Entertaining Essays
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What it is: a collection of humorous essays by outspoken comedian and bestselling author Chelsea Handler, where she shares candid and sometimes ribald stories about her life, friends, flings, and travels (including to the Bahamas, Africa, Germany, and Switzerland).
Is it for you? Not everyone will like Handler's particular type of no-holds-barred humor, but those who do can mix a margarita and settle in.
Read this next: For another raucous look at traveling, try Chuck Thompson's Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer. |
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What it is: Acclaimed travel writer William Least Heat-Moon, who's known for his lyrical writing and cross-country trips across the U.S., travels the world in this collection of 30 essays written over 30 years.
Locations include: Japan, England, Wales, Italy, New Zealand.
Read it for: Though many of the pieces were previously published in magazines, Heat-Moon took control of the editorial reins here, rearranging words and restoring deleted sections. |
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What it is: a volume of intelligent, moving, and entertaining essays by a National Book Award winner that elegantly captures his time spent in places in transition (politically, culturally, etc).
Locations include: the U.S.S.R., Russia, China, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, Zambia, Cambodia, Mongolia, Greenland, Senegal, Afghanistan, Japan, the Solomon Islands, Libya, Brazil, Ghana.
Want a taste? "Change is often heady; change often goes horribly wrong; change often electrifies the air only to evanesce unrealized." |
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