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Armchair Travel April 2019
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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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Ed Stafford's ultimate adventure guide : the bucket list for the brave
by Ed Stafford
"There are bucket lists featuring comfort and indulgence, like staying at the George V in Paris or eating at Eleven Madison Park in New York. There are "if I ever..." bucket lists, like being an extra in a movie or learning to sing. And then there are bucket lists for the brave, the daring and the dreamers who want to check off as many challenging adventures as they can. They want every minute of life to count. Ed Stafford's Ultimate Adventure Guide is for them. It presents Ed's hand-picked selection ofexciting challenges for those who don't mind a bit of discomfort. Life's great adventures are theirs for the taking."--Amazon.com
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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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The sun is a compass : a 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilds
by Caroline Van Hemert
Documents the biologist adventurer's treks in the vast wilderness region spanning the Pacific rainforest through the Alaskan Arctic, where her husband and she tested their physical boundaries while making profound natural-world connections and discoveries about animal survival. 35,000 first printing.
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| Footsteps: From Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, Literary... by The New York TimesWhat it is: an appealing anthology of "Footsteps" travel columns from the New York Times, detailing visits to and examinations of classic authors' relationships to favored places.
Chapters include: "San Francisco Noir;" "Finding Alice's 'Wonderland' in Oxford;" "James Baldwin's Paris;" "Alice Munro's Vancouver;" "In Chile, Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved."
Who it's for: travel and book lovers who want a short vacation via essay. |
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| Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell StevensWhat happened: After finishing her MFA, British writer Nell Stevens won a fellowship allowing her to go anywhere for several months to write.
So, Paris or Fiji, right? Nope, Bleaker Island, a part of the Falkland Islands, located off the Patagonian coast of South America, that features inhospitable wind, lots of snow, and not many people.
Okay, why? She wanted distraction-free writing -- but discovered that three months of solitude in an isolated place provides its own challenges. |
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