Summer Travel Reading
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.07.04 | 9:45 PM ET
The New York Times Book Review’s annual summer reading issue takes a look at seven new travel titles, including Elinor Burkett’s “So Many Enemies, So Little Time” and Michael Gorra’s “The Bells in their Silence: Travels Through Germany.” Reviewer Brooke Allen likes the crop of tomes. “A handful of recent travel books, featuring subjects that range from the only slightly offbeat (revisionist looks at Germany and modern Greece) to the truly mind-stretching (Kyrgyzstan, the Gobi Desert, wartime Afghanistan, peacetime Iraq), have thoroughly trumped the standard travel literature this summer,” she writes.