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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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Lands of Lost Borders – A Journey on the Silk Road: Kate Harris
Published by Dey Street Books, 2018, 320 pages If things had worked out differently this book might have been about Mars instead of the Silk Road. Kate Harris is a true explorer at heart, always seeking new places and new… Continue reading
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Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains – A Journey Across Arunachal Pradesh—India’s Forgotten Frontier: Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2017, 384 pages Researching a BBC documentary in India, Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent meets Abhra “Abhra-cadabra” Bhattacharya, “fixeur extradonaire”. His stories of the Seven Sisters—the little-known states in the Indian northeast—fascinate her: tales of unchartered wilderness, shamans,… Continue reading
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Non-Stop Metropolis—A New York Atlas: Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro
Published by University of California Press, 2016, 224 pages Rebecca Solnit is no stranger to conveying urban environments through maps (see my review of her earlier atlas on New Orleans). But how do you convey the complexity of New York? Rebecca… Continue reading
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Go, Girl! The Black Woman’s Book of Travel & Adventure: Compiled by Elaine Lee
Published by The Eighth Mountain Press, 1997, 368 pages Elaine Lee is an African-American woman who has made travel a way of life. Her compilation of 52 pieces of travel writing by African-American women encourages black women to travel by… Continue reading
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A Year in the World—Journeys of a Passionate Traveller: Frances Mayes
Published by Broadway, 2006, 448 pages “How do place and character intertwine? Could I feel at home here? What is home to those around me? Who are they in their homes, those mysterious others?” To find out, Frances Mayes (of Under… Continue reading
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