Category: travel books
Imagine being in a room with all your favorite travel writers and having conversations about writing, travel, and life. That’s what Michael Shapiro’s A Sense of Place is all …
Irish history is bound up with and shared through the telling of stories. Through stories we tell each other of our travels, places and people come vividly alive in …
Discover the essence of New Zealand’s landscape and dream of future trips with these ‘armchair travel’ reads. The 1 Thing by Bob Moore (2006) Bob Moore, a Wellington-based Englishman, …
New England, the far northeastern part of the United States, is a place of contrasts — big cities and small towns, seashores and lake shores, ponds, rivers, forests, cutting …
If you’re reading this on a Monday feeling a bit hung over, you’re had to work hard to get to that state in many of the countries featured in …
There is no shortage of information on the art and business of travel writing. Do a simple Google search for ‘travel writing’ and you’ll get over 870 million results. …
Kerry Dexter
April 17, 2013
Adventure travel, Africa travel, Asia travel, Australia & NZ travel, Canada travel, City or urban travel, Europe travel, Kerry projects, Travel, travel books, US travel
You have to think that the people at Lonely Planet had a good time coming up with the title Cooks, Clowns and Cowboys It’s a book about skills and …
Regular readers of Perceptive Travel will know that we love food (and wine and beer) almost as much as we love travel. Over the years, we’ve written about quirky …
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? That’s the question I’ve been grappling with the past few weeks. With plenty of time on my …
New Zealanders love to travel, which, when you think about it, is kind of ironic. After all, their national bird is the shy, non-flying Kiwi that prefers darkness to light. …
Andy Hall is a photographer. He is also a man with a deep love for the land of his native Scotland. He’s chosen a creative way of sharing that …
You might want to choose a book on the subject written by an author who’s still alive. I mean no disrespect to the late Louise Purwin Zobel, the original …