The best travel books are shared here, with brief excerpts from books published about travel and destinations around the world.
Award-Winning Tales of Travel Fiascoes: When the Worst Can, and Does, Happen Edited by Roger Rapoport, Bob Drews, and Kim Klewscewski Roger Rapport, Bob Drews, and Kim Klewscewski have put together a conglomeration of true stories of travel fiascoes from destinations all over the globe. In I Should Have Just Stayed Home: Award-Winning Tales of […]
A Musical and Erotic night on the town leaves fans Delirious and Exhausted. By Paula Morzenti Travelers’ Tales Cuba: True Stories (Travelers’ Tales Guides) provides readers with personal accounts of travelers’ experiences while on the road. These true stories allow one to gain a better understanding of a country, culture, and history than the more […]
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 […]
A tale of Hardship and Beauty Excerpted by Melissa Santley Isadora Tattlin has created her own genre of a non-fictional work accounting each astonishing day for four school years living in Cuba as a housewife, mother and writer. Cuba Diaries is a Cuba noir – honest and graphic depictions of her observations taken from a […]
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 […]
GoNOMAD Book Excerpt: The World’s Cheapest Destinations: 21 Countries Where Your Dollars Are Worth a Fortune Tim Leffel is an internationally recognized expert on traveling well for less; in fact he wrote the book, now in a newly-updated fourth Edition Find out where to get a four-dollar massage while you lie on the beach drinking […]
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.
