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April 28, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Frank McGee has built a distinguished career as a writer and journalist over half a century. In the tumultuous 1960s he covered stories as far afield as Brazil, Indonesia, and Viet Nam. As managing editor of “Pace” magazine, a contemporary of “Life, Look, and Holiday,” he worked with thought leaders from around the world. During [...]
March 26, 2012 by admin | No Comments
This is not your typical travel memoir. Eat, Pray, Love is a very candid sharing of one woman’s experiences in dealing with trauma and upheaval in her life. Elizabeth Gilbert shares with the reader not just her year of physical travels to Italy, India and Indonesia, but also her spiritual travels to find herself after [...]
March 23, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Each and every year, a large number of people move around the world to several countries. Often, they’re taken abroad through their employers or for new jobs, and some are merely adventure-seekers searching for a different view. Either way, moving abroad is not any simple task. There are many small details to be taken care [...]
March 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Remember To Laugh: Writing My Way Around the World by Maggie Kilgore Palari Publishing (2006) ISBN 1928662374 Reviewed by Mary Greenwood for Reader Views (11/06) The book “Remember to Laugh” is the true story of Maggie Kilgore’s life as a reporter in Washington and a foreign correspondent in Vietnam. Coming from a newspaper family in [...]
January 23, 2012 by admin | No Comments
On my recent trip to Istanbul this past September I was looking for a guidebook that would offer me a fair amount of history and allow me to skip guided tours and save me money. Knowing Rick Steves mostly by his Rick Steves’ Europe television series, I decided to purchase his guidebook and take it [...]
January 23, 2012 by admin | No Comments
From the prolific keyboard of David Millett along with the photo-journalistic eye of Julia Buss, this traveling couple has compiled a delightful “Coffee Table” photo album of far-away and exotic places in their new book, Continental Drifting: Exceptional Destinations Around the World. No moss gathers under these authors’ feet; as we have first been introduced [...]
January 16, 2012 by admin | No Comments
PublishAmerica (2007) ISBN 9781424174225 Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (12/07) I was very curious as to what this book would contain when I saw its title, “Black Man under the Deep Blue Sea: Memoirs of a Black Commercial Diver in Southeast Asia.” The author delivers what he promises in the title and much [...]
January 2, 2012 by admin | No Comments
While on a recent flight I was able to sit back, relax and read a book from my favorite travel writer – Rick Steves. I have been using his great knowledge and experience on 8 European trips in the last 9 years – his hints and hotel recommendations have been wonderful and we read his [...]
November 21, 2011 by admin | No Comments
It’s hard to find great travel writing, but it’s out there. Part of the reason for this is that so much travel writing is also considered nature writing or narrative non-fiction. Part of the reason is that the field is so competitive because of a lot of good authors competing for a relatively small market [...]
November 18, 2011 by admin | No Comments
(SEATTLE, WA)- Extreme adventures are activities that are perceived as having a high level of danger or difficulty, involving one or more of the following: speed, height, specialized gear or extending beyond the common level of physical exertion. Such activities include skydiving, climbing mountains, swimming with sharks and trekking across frozen tundra and glaciers, to [...]
November 8, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Outskirts Press (2007) ISBN 9781432703530 Buckle your seatbelts; you are in for an adventure you won’t soon forget! Welcome aboard the Northern Experience Tours! You will be traveling with 46 other women on a trip around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. You are certain to meet some of the most interesting people you have ever [...]
October 11, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Tom McLaughlin’s new book, Borneo Tom, could be a travel guide through Southeast Asia – but it’s also much more than that. You’ll get the entire scoop on what it’s like to travel through Borneo, Malaysia and Southeast Asia, live among the orangutans and develop a serious relationship through it all. The sketches in Borneo [...]
September 30, 2011 by admin | No Comments
I recently listened to the audio CD of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Eat Pray Love. As I reflect back on my powerful emotional reaction to her story, I am reminded of a great 70′s tune by Roberta Flack called Killing Me Softly. The familiar lyrics state: Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with [...]
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