The best travel books are shared here, with brief excerpts from books published about travel and destinations around the world.
A Bittersweet Adventure in a small Tuscan town: Grape Picking By Mei Mei Thai Marlena de Blasi’s A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure takes its readers onto her adventurous, fulfilling experience living in a small Tuscany town. Totally immersing herself into their culture and way of living, she formed amazing friendships and cooked and […]
GoNOMAD Book Excerpt: Over Sand and Sea by Patrick Pfister By MeiMei Thai GoNOMAD Staff Over Sand and Sea is a collection of Patrick Pfister’s tales about his journey around the world – from Florida to Karakorum to Bali to Fiji to Thailand and so forth to end his voyage, where he had to see his […]
I should have just stayed home: Award-Winning Tales of Travel Fiascoes. A book about terrible things happening while on a trip, including hotel collapse.
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 […]
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.