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Tag Archives: Book Review
Lion Attacks and Safaris
Travel Book Review: Man Eaters Motel (and other stops on the railway to nowhere: an East African Traveler’s Nightbook) by Denis Boyles (1991) Continue reading
I may understand when I am a middle-aged woman
Targeted at middle-aged women, this is a pleasant, but not remarkable, memoir of a single woman traveling in Europe. Travel book review of Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach. Continue reading
Too much about the tropics?
Travel book review: Tales from The Torrid Zone. Some interesting stories plopped into a book that’s just too long. Continue reading
Book Review: Hiding Alongside the Andes
Travel Book Review: Sara Wheeler delivers a great travel book in Travels in a Thin Country, a story of her journey through Chile Continue reading
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Book Review: Unappealing Mexico City
Book Review of First Stop in the New World by David Lida, a travel book which makes Mexico City seem, in his own words, like a “walking disaster.” Continue reading
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Book Review: A Tourist Free Coast
When winter rolls in, the pace of the coast slows as the summer tourists leave the beaches, the ice chokes the harbors, and the towns are left for those who enjoy the solitude. Matthew Stone reviews Off Season, a travel book by Ken McAlpine. Continue reading
Book Review: China Before Steroids
A book review of Colin Thubron’s Behind the Wall, a traveler’s journey through mid-1980’s China (before Shanghai looked like Chicago on steroids). Continue reading
Bill Bryson is funny
Bill Bryson hits the spot with Notes From a Small Island, one of the top travel books of all time. Continue reading
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Back in Time Book Review
Travel Writer Matthew Stone revisits a 1955 travel book, Herbert Kubly’s American in Italy in a book review, and finds out that some things never change. Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, Europe, Italy, Naples, travel, Venice
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Pretty Book, but Pretty Macabre
Travel writer Matthew Stone reviews Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands, a morose collection of tales about paradise destroyed, lives shattered, and utopia extinguished. Continue reading