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8.6.08
Like Writing on Water
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TRAVEL BLOG: New Travel Books
New Travel Book: ‘The Wild Places’
Released in U.S.: June 2008 Travel genre: Wilderness travel Territory covered: Britain, Ireland New Travel Book: ‘The Girl from Foreign’
Author: Sadia Shepard Released: July 31, 2008 Travel genre: Roots travel, memoir travel, clash-of-civilizations travel Territory covered: India New Travel Book: ‘Explorers of the Infinite’Author: Maria Coffey Released: May 2008 Travel genre: Adventure travel, spiritual travel Territory covered: The highest peaks, biggest waves, best powder, toughest trails and the paranormal New Travel Book: ‘A Nuclear Family Vacation’
Released: June 10, 2008 Travel genre: Science travel, WMD travel Territory covered: United States, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan New Travel Book: ‘Queen of the Road’Author: Doreen Orion Released: June 2008 Travel genre: Couples cross-country travel
Territory covered: North America
New Travel Book: ‘A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean’
Author: Gary Buslik Released: June 2008 Travel genre: Bad-natured travel, island travel
Territory covered: The Caribbean
New Travel Book: ‘Are We There Yet?’
Author: Susan Sessions Rugh Released: May 22, 2008 Travel genre: Travel history Territory covered: Highways of America
By Elyse Franko • 6.17.08
Weblog • New Travel Books • Road Trips • United States Permalink • Comments (0) New Travel Book: ‘First Stop in the New World’
Author: David Lida Released: Today Travel genre: Into the big city Territory covered: Mexico City New Travel Book: ‘Mean and Lowly Things’
Author: Kate Jackson Released: April 30, 2008 Travel genre: Science travel Territory covered: Republic of Congo New Travel Book: ‘On a Hoof and a Prayer’
Author: Polly Evans Released: April 29, 2008 Travel genre: Larkish travel, equine travel Territory covered: Patagonia, Argentina New Travel Novel: ‘Dear American Airlines’
Released: April 29, 2008 Travel genre: Fiction—the literature of “Airworld” Territory covered: Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, the life of protagonist Bennie Ford New Travel Book: ‘Bar Flower’
Author: Lea Jacobson Released: April 15, 2008 Travel genre: Expats behaving badly
Territory covered: Japan
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Author: Robert Macfarlane
Full title:”The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home”
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Full title: “Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess”
