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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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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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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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The Year of Living Danishly—Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country: Helen Russell
Published by Icon Books, 2015, 368 pages Helen Russell lived in London, working crazy hours with hardly any time off. When her partner is offered a job at Lego in Jutland, Denmark, they realize that it is going to be… Continue reading
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Tales of a Female Nomad—Living at Large in the World: Rita Golden Gelman
Published by Crown, 2001, 320 pages When her marriage starts to disintegrate, Rita Golden Gelman decides to go to Mexico on her own to take a break and think things through. Never having traveled on her own, she is nervous… Continue reading
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