Tag: travel books
Summer reading. You may toss a book or two in your carry on, download something to your devices, or use books to travel by imagination while you stay in …
Travel by book is a great way to explore. You might mark out plans for a place you are planning on going, or ones you’re dreaming of visiting. Maybe …
Kerry Dexter
January 1, 2020
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What is a micro trip? The editors of Lonely Planet have taken the idea of short trips in a rather interesting direction in the book called Micro Trips. They’ve …
Kerry Dexter
May 27, 2019
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Food: it’s an essential part of travel. Maybe you seek out special meals, look for a farmer’s market, or happen on a quick snack at a roadside stand. Whatever …
There’s a travel book sitting in my head just waiting to be written. Actually, there’s a travel book, a murder mystery, and a romantic comedy in there as well. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
I’m trying to decide why “Cambodian Grrrl” is the best travel book I’ve read this year. Part memoir, part travelogue, with a dash of manifesto here and there, “Cambodian …
Two pictures took center stage on the front page of this weekend’s Christchurch newspaper. The headline above the large picture asked readers ‘Do you recognize this building?’ and then …
The Contemporary Cruise by Iwein Maassen is a perfect coffee table book that not only captivates you with it’s stunning photographs but also provides you with plenty of information …
Kerry Dexter
May 25, 2011
Africa travel, Asia travel, Australia & NZ travel, Canada travel, Europe travel, History, Kerry projects, Latin America travel, Middle East travel, travel books, US travel
Pytheas was a Greek who lived almost four hundred years before the Christian era. Perhaps it was in part his interest the mathematics of navigation which led him to …