The Critics: Summer Travel Books
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.04.07 | 11:35 AM ET
More proof that, despite the naysayers, travel books remain an interesting, vibrant genre: The New York Times Book Review’s annual list of summer reading includes books by Diswasher Pete and Miss Manners. No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice by Judith Martin (aka Miss Manners) and Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States by Pete Jordan (aka Dishwasher Pete) are among the six travel books reviewed by Pamela Paul. She gives a hesitant thumbs up to both. “Probably in spite of, and not courtesy of, its irresponsible narrator, ‘Dishwasher’ is almost compulsively readable,” she writes.
The other books reviewed: French by Heart: An American Family’s Adventures in La Belle France by Rebecca S. Ramsey, A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France by Georgeanne Brennan, Pint-Sized Ireland: In Search of the Perfect Guinness by Evan McHugh and The Handsomest Man in Cuba: An Escapade by Lynette Chiang.
Related on World Hum:
* New York Times Picks Summer Travel Reads (2006)
* World Hum’s Top 30 Travel Books
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
