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Alone Time—Four Cities, Four Seasons and the Pleasures of Solitude: Stephanie Rosenbloom
Published by Viking, 2018, 288 pages Slow down and take the time to look around you: that is the message of this book, an antidote to our busy and always-on culture. It is, as its title suggests, a paean to… Continue reading
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Travels with My Radio: Fi Glover
Published by Random House UK, 2002, 352 pages Fi Glover starts each day by tuning into the local radio station; it gives her a sense of being a part of the daily routine, no matter where she is. The idea of… Continue reading
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Destination Heartland—A Guide to Discovering the Midwest’s Remarkable Past: Cynthia Clampitt
Published by 3 Fields Books, 2022, 272 pages “Why Midwestern history? Because I love American history, and the history of the Midwest is, to a greater extent than most people realize, a key element of that history. … [P]eople need… Continue reading
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One More Croissant for the Road: Felicity Cloake
Published by Mudlark, 2019, 344 pages A travel book by a food writer—what more could you want? Felicity Cloake, inspired by the Tour de France, decides to do a tour herself with a slight difference. She would cycle around France,… Continue reading
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What Is Africa To Me? – Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography: Maryse Condé
Translated from French by Richard PhilcoxPublished by Seagull Books, 2017, 264 pages “Why is it that any attempt to write about one’s life ends up as a jumble of half-truths? … In the pages that follow…I shall try…to figure out… Continue reading
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Walking to the End of the World—A Thousand Miles on the Camino de Santiago: Beth Jusino
Published by Mountaineers Books, 2018, 272 pages Beth Jusino is a publishing consultant living in Seattle. She and her husband Eric have jobs they enjoy, but feel that something is missing in their lives. So they take three months off… Continue reading
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203 Travel Challenges—Travel the World, Explore Your Inner Self: Maria Angelova and Ivalina Nenova
Published by Cardinal Pub Group, 2017, 2015 pages Even though we travel more, we seem to engage less with our surroundings, often content to be mere spectators. This book aims to turn that around: to quote the authors, it’s not… Continue reading
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Thousand-Miler—Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail: Melanie Radzicki McManus
Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2017, 240 pages In 2013, 51-year-old Melanie Radzicki McManus felt she needed a break from everyday life. A native of Wisconsin, she is delighted to find that there is a National Scenic Trail on… Continue reading
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A Bike Ride—12,000 Miles around the World: Anne Mustoe
Published by Virgin, 1991, 256 pages Anne Mustoe retired as a headmistress of a British school for girls in the mid-1980s and decided to go for a bike ride around the world. She was attracted by the idea of being… Continue reading
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Walking in Clouds – A Journey to Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar: Kavita Yaga Buggana
Published by Harper Collins, 2019, 152 pages Kavita Yaga Buggana and her cousin Pallu planned to go together to Mount Kailash in Tibet since they were 18. But life got in the way, they both married, moved away from India… Continue reading
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