Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust: Travel Picks

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.13.07 | 7:24 AM ET

Nancy Pearl, author of Book Lust and superstar librarian—she has an action figure— appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition yesterday and recommended eight travel books to stoke winter wanderlust. Among her picks: Redmond O’Hanlon’s In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon, Will Ferguson’s Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw: Travels In Search of Canada and Freya Stark’s A Winter in Arabia.

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* World Hum’s Top 30 Travel Books

Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.

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