Florida Vacation Guide
If you ever planed a vacation to places you never visited, it can be pretty hard to pick things to do with your limited time. So, this little post will focus on Florida vacations. Florida being one of the most popular vacation spots in the world and very popular with Euro crowd. So here are [...]
Smile When You’re Lying, by Chuck Thompson
Easily the question most often asked of us on this job is, “Yeah, but do you read the whole book?” The answer, of course, is yes, we do. And are we ever glad that’s our policy, because if we’d given up on Chuck Thompson’s collection of travel essays, this would have been a much different [...]
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute, by Julio Cortázar
‘The last book by Julio Cortázar (1914–84), the celebrated Argentinean postmodernist, does not look like a love story. Finally translated by Anne McLean, “Autonauts of the Cosmoroute” has the appearance of a novelty, a travelogue set on the blasé freeway that connects Paris with Marseille. A second glance, reading into the prologue, suggests that the [...]
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, by Eric Weiner
“If happiness, as National Public Radio correspondent Eric Weiner’s own research suggests, is primarily connected to our ability to have intimate and nourishing relationships with loved ones, Weiner seems doomed from the get-go. He set out to explore 10 bizarre and exotic locations around the world hoping to find clues between contentment and geography. His [...]
Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, by Peter Allison
“When wandering through the Botswanian wilderness, you could ask for no better ally than Peter Allison. An experienced safari guide with a genuine love for the country and its animals, Allison’s debut, Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide recounts his experiences.” Read the review at Bookslut.
Trading in Memories: Travels Through a Scavenger’s Favorite Places, by Barbara Hodgson
“Her new book, an offbeat travelogue entitled Trading in Memories: Travels Through a Scavenger’s Favorite Places is a trip through bazaars and markets around the world which shows where many of those bits and pieces were found. Whether as creative sparks for a new project or critical components to a work-in-progress, everything Hodgson uncovers becomes [...]
Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollman
“Contempt for my privileged railroad follies may be warranted,” William T. Vollman concedes in the first chapter of “Riding Toward Everywhere” (HarperCollins, 288 pages, $26.95), his account of train-hopping in the contemporary American West. He knows that a fortunate man who does for kicks what a less fortunate man does out of desperation is suspect, [...]
Riding Toward Everywhere, by William T. Vollmann
“If trains, connoting the eternally expanding frontier, have long served as a potent symbol for our fair nation, then trainhopping represents an outlaw strain of the American dream. William T. Vollmann must know this, because in Riding Toward Everywhere, his part-memoir, part-report, full-on paean to trainhopping, he hardly goes five pages without affirming that dangerous, [...]