Summary: Including contributions from Dave Eggers, Pico Iyer, Richard Ford and Jane Smiley, more than 20 well-known writers share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Publications 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 INNSummary: "Featuring communist bunkers, burning gas craters and at least one sponge-rock flourescent grotto built by Polish monks, this book reveals weird and wonderful sights that the crowds don't reach. From eerie natural wonders to historical oddities and bizarre architecture, this is a travel companion for the incurably curious" -- page 4 of cover. Takes readers on a journey through the worlds lesser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 SECSummary: This collection of travel disasters contains 44 short tales of woe. Each one features a traveler who winds up being robbed, stranded, sick, lost, or without passport among other vacation nightmares while traveling anywhere from New York City to Romania's "Orient Distress."
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Publisher / Publication Date: RDR Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 ISummary: "Children will dive, drive and fly through on an action-packed adventure through the United States, Canada, and around the world! Adventure through different times and places; See roadside attractions; Solve math problems; Develop problem-solving skills."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: Offers a gritty, no-holds-barred look at the darker side of the roving experience, reflecting on the effects of globalization on the casual traveler and revealing a treasury of insider travel industry secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 THONorbury, Katharine
Summary: "Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out - accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie - with the idea of following a river from the sea to its source. The luminously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NORBURY, KATHARINE NORGorra, Michael
Summary: "Michael Gorra uses Goethe's account of his Italian journey as a model for testing the traveler's response to Germany today, and he subjects the shopping arcades of contemporary German cities to the terms of Benjamin's Arcades project. He reads post-Wende Berlin through the novels of Theodor Fontane, examines the role of figurative language, and enlists W.G. Sebald as a guide to the place of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.3 GORMaugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Summary: Travel writer Pico Iyer selects vignettes of Maugham's wise and vivid prose that track his transformation from a boyish traveler to a worldly man of letters, looking back on India, China, Russia, and America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 MAUTóibín, Colm
Summary: "From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 TOIO'Neil, L. Peat (Louisa Peat)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.066 ONESummary: "The best travel writing essays of 2019 are collected in this volume that explores what it means to travel somewhere new"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 BESDeSanctis, Marcia.
Summary: "Told in a series of stylish, original essays, 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go is for the serious Francophile, the woman dreaming of a trip to Paris, and also for those who love crisp stories well-told. Like all great travel writing, this volume goes beyond the guidebook and offers insight not only about where to go but why to go there. A combination of keen travel advice, memoir and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Travelers' Tales 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 FRAHeat Moon, William Least.
Summary: A collection of short-form travel writing features the author's observations on locations ranging from Japan, England,and Italy to Long Island, Oregon, and Arizona.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 HEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 HEACassady, Carolyn
Summary: "This book illustrious Carolyn is a charming narative filled with heartfelt advice for adventurers and weary travelers alike! Evoking a bygone era of elegance and international travel that bursts with beauty and wonderment, you are invited to take a leisurely journey with a savvy mother and daughter team as they soak in the sites, culture and deliciousness of each stop on an extended European...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Book Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CASHeat Moon, William Least
Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEALovell, Henrietta
Summary: Henrietta Lovell is best known as 'The Rare Tea Lady'. She is on a mission to revolutionise the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with the highest quality tea leaves. Her quest has seen her travel to the Shire Highlands of Malawi, across the foothills of the Himalayas, and to hidden gardens in the Wuyi-Shan to source the world's most extraordinary teas. Infused invites...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber Limited 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 LOVBaggett, Jennifer.
Summary: Three friends at a crossroads in their twenties quit their high pressure New York media jobs, leave their friends and everything familiar behind, and embark on a year-long backpacking adventure around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910.4 BAGDeacon, Anna
Summary: Discover the hidden side of the popular Balearic Islands. Deserted beaches and emerald coves, mountain wilderness with far-reaching views, cliffs, gorges, caves, and ancient ruins. Filled with spectacular photography and engaging travel writing, this book will appeal to families in search of the good life, as well as adventure travelers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wild Things Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.604 BALEARIC ISLANDS DEARitter, Rhoda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: printed by the Leelanau Enterprise 1996
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 917.74 RITHabib, Shahnaz
Summary: "The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023