The best travel books are shared here, with brief excerpts from books published about travel and destinations around the world.
Mark Pearson and Martin Westerman put together a collection of stories from college-aged travelers who traveled throughout Europe. The results are tales of mishaps, woes, and pleasant surprises, fit into 371 pages of unexpected adventure. Where there are youthful travelers there are spontaneous experiences, which make for some interesting situations. Most stories celebrate the risk […]
Divided into three distinct parts, Paul Otteson has created a traveler’s bible for planning an upcoming trip. The World Awaits How to Travel Far and Well, challenges you to understand yourself as a traveler, lays out planning and preparation guidelines, and explores the skills for facing unsuspecting calamities. A new travel approach has been discovered […]
American housewife Isadora Tattlin created her own genre of a non-fiction, sharing each astonishing day for four school years in Cuba.
Why so Many travelers are discovering this “Black Sheep of Central America” By Joshua Berman and Randy Wood Nicaragua, the black sheep of Central America, is sorely misunderstood in the world. Since disappearing from the headlines in the early 1990s, life in Nicaragua has moved steadily forward, leaving behind in the rest of the […]
It’s Not How You Go, but Where! An Excerpt from The World’s Cheapest Destinations:21 Countries where your dollars are worth a fortune, world’s cheapest tourist destinations
First, You Shave Your Head Geri Larkin’s spiritual pilgrimage through Korea’s Buddhist Mountain Monasteries following the Buddhist traditions.
Globetrotter Dogma. Visiting 135 countries in 20 years, Bruce Northam has gathered hard-won nuggets of travel wisdom into 100 enlightening recommendations.
Lauryn Axelrod reviews books about living on islands including works by Paul Theroux, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, and Pico Iyer.
