Las Vegas: “I Never Thought I Would Live Here!”
Lynn Rosenberg never knew she would one day live in Las Vegas. When she moved there from Long Island, she eventually met many others who tell their own Vegas stories.
Travel Books
The best travel books are shared here, with brief excerpts from books published about travel and destinations around the world.
Paris: Black and Whites from the 50s and 60s
Paris, a book of images from the 1950s and 1960s by famed photographer Paul Almasy. This collection of black and white images evokes the great era of Paris.
Mystical Places, from Hades to the Cave of Vlyhada
Mystical Places: Discover 25 mystical destinations from around the globe in this enchanting guide full of magic, folklore and magic.
Ex-Pats and Single Life: Facing the Reality
Ex-Pats who decide to move abroad as singles face a host of questions and issues. An excerpt from A Great Move: Surviving and Thriving in Your Expat Assignment
Viking Isles: Tales from an Island of Legend
Papa Stour, an island off the Shetlands in the far north of Britain was a Viking settlement for ages, and this chapter is from Viking Isles by Paul Murton.
American Borders: A solo-circumnavigation of the U.S. with a Sidecar
American Borders is the story of breakdowns in small towns all around the USA as the author test rides and repairs the Russian Ural sidecar motorcycle n 1995.
The Dog Lady of Mexico
A novel by Alison Sawyer Current about an artist who moves to Mexico in search of inspiration for her work, but ends up a dog lady instead.
1000 Places to See Before You Die: A Travel Cheat-Sheet
1000 Places to See Before You Die author Patricia Schultz has transformed her bestselling franchise into an illustrated masterpiece.
Japan’s Stunning World Heritage Sites
This beautifully photographed guidebook offers history, access information, maps, and top quality photography of Japan’s UNESCO world heritage sights.
Rough Guides’ Ultimate Travel Experiences
Rough Guides Ultimate Experiences: Make the Most of your time on Earth by seeing these incredible sights of wildlife and scenery in Africa.
The Couple Who Wrote the Book on Glamping
Comfortably Wild: The Best Glamping Destinations in North America. The couple who wrote the book in glamping, Mike and Anne Howard, share their secrets.
A History of New York in 27 Buildings
A Short Excerpt From Sam Roberts’ book, History of New York in 27 Buildings.
Literary Places Promises to Take You Far Away
Literary Places: Dublin and Ulysses. This is a chapter from a new book that takes the reader to 25 different places around the world where stories were set.
Around the World on 50 Bucks
Christopher Schacht left home with fifty dollars and managed to go around the world, doing it with no money and simply his wits. An inspiring travel book!