So who doesn’t love a book you can open to any page and get huge, gorgeous photos overlapping two pages per nation with a sidebar of Useful Information? Close your eyes and open the Travel Book about half way (page 209 out of 447) and you get Kiribati (hands up everyone who already knew about these 33 small South Pacific islands)
Backpacking Your Way to a New You
Friedman, unable to shake a lifetime practice of thinking before jumping, records her conversations with herself as she pulls farther and farther away from her cultural norm. Diving against her better judgment into a fast river in Kakadu National Park near Darwin, which may or may not harbor crocodiles, she makes it to ‘the other side.’ “I like backpacker me,” she journals. “She is easygoing. She talks less, listens more. She doesn’t wear a watch. “
Running Around the World:Second Wind
Washington-based Cami Ostman author of Second Wind subtitles her book, One Woman’s Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents, which instantly made me head-snap a picture of super-jock. She’s not. Ostman might more accurately have added a little visual appeal to we of more modest enthusiasms — One Woman’s Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents –Very Slowly, Often Last and Usually Staying in Hostels