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Welcome to the new issue of Perceptive Travel webzine, home to the best travel stories from wandering book authors.
We've got another round of great travel stories and some reviews of world music and travel books worth checking out. See the links to your right or go to the new issue page.
Consider this the veteran issue: for the features we welcome back three travel writers who have appeared here before. Regular contributor Michael Buckley checks into a Korean temple to commune with fighting monks. Chris Epting, author of 18 books on interesting places, returns to where he grew up for some personal landmarks of his own. Carla Seidl recounts her experience of spending more than two years in a conservative village in Azerbaijan.
Graham Reid is back to run down some worthwhile world music releases from Africa, Brazil, and Sudan.
I review new books from the aforementioned Chris Epting, Tim Brookes (who has a story in an upcoming issue of ours), and an engaging book that looks at our digital gadget addiction through the eyes of philosophers—Hamlet's Blackberry.
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- Tim Leffel, Editor
- by Michael Buckley
- by Chris Epting
- by Carla Seidl
- by Graham Reid
- by Tim Leffel
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