New York Times Picks Summer Travel Reads

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  06.05.06 | 5:56 AM ET

The paper of record printed its annual summer roundup of travel books today, reviewing five recent releases: There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter, Frances Mayes’ A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller, Michael Benanav’s Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold, J. Maarten Troost’s Getting Stoned with the Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu and Lawrence Osborne’s The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall. Reviewer Max Watman reserved most of his praise for Troost’s “Savages” and Osborne’s “Naked,” calling the former “excellent copy” and the latter “funny, intelligent, insightful and honest.”

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