With mixed feelings, Rob Verger recently signed on for a tour of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. He looks back on the experience—and the photos he was allowed to take.
Great cheese abounds in the land of Gaul, but dig in and you risk committing any number of faux pas. Terry Ward explains how to partake of the nation’s famed fromage with savoir faire.
The former AP correspondent traveled up the Congo River. Frank Bures asks the author of “All Things Must Fight to Live” about following in the wake of Joseph Conrad.
Some bureaucrats joke that they would never claim expertise about countries they had not at least flown over. In an excerpt from his new book, Parag Khanna argues that real global understanding can only come from serious travel.
Lonely Planet author Robert Reid reviews Thomas Kohnstamm’s “Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?” and weighs in on the controversy surrounding it
TRAVEL BLOG
12.27.06
Three Travel Books Crack Entertainment Weekly’s Nonfiction Books of the Year List
It’s surprising but good to see so many travel books get noticed by an entertainment magazine. The pub’s picks: Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between (No.4), Peter Hessler’s Oracle Bones (No. 7) and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love (No. 10). Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home topped the list.
It’s surprising but good to see so many travel books get noticed by an entertainment magazine. The pub’s picks: Rory Stewart’s 
(No. 7) and Elizabeth Gilbert’s 
