10 Books To Help Build Your Bucket List
Whether you’re a list junkie, or just want a few ideas for rainy Sundays, here are 10 books to help draft/shape/improve your Bucket List.
Category Archives: Literature
10 Books To Honor Veterans Day And The Burma Campaign
Somewhere beyond the fence of trees, their branches growing in links of green and brown, lies a graveyard. We can see no marble headstones, no dried flowers or markers of […]
Longitude’s Best Travel Books of 2013: Headhunters On My Doorstep
With his usual ability to turn small details into entertaining anecdotes, Troost faces devious gold smugglers, starving sharks and the ghosts of old islanders. A bit more candid than in his previous South Pacific narratives (read: The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Getting Stone With Savages), the author returns to familiar settings in order to compare how they – and he – have changed over the decades.
Longitude’s Best Travel Books of 2013, #1: Cuban Revelations
Fidel Castro’s mustache instantly attracted Michelle’s attention, but his oratory prowess and political passion piqued her interest soon after.
After reading about the Cuban leader, Michelle will visit his small but proud Caribbean country. And while she’ll travel with more knowledge than most, few books will help her accept those upcoming experiences better than this one.
Read, Watch, Listen: August’s Travel Reviews
Whether you’re on the road or at your desk, this month’s book, movie and music reviews will give you a traveling taste of New Zealand. Read: A Land of Two […]
Little Princes (An Armchair Travel Book Review)
As featured on The Traveling Advisor: Too many travel narratives are written about the highly improbable, crazy or suicidal, vain-glorious antics someone participates in simply to publish. Too few are […]
Bangkok 8 (An Armchair Travel Book Review)
As featured on The Traveling Advisor: Have you ever watched a Thai ping-pong show? “We didn’t want to go, at first,” two young English women told me, “but then […]
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