Archive for September, 2007

There’s No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled, edited by Doug Lansky

September 20th, 2007

 No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled

Edited by Doug Lansky, this collection of humorous tales from various travel writers will bring you more than a few chuckles.

For example, The Art of Riding a Third World Bus by …

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Change Your Life Through Travel, by Jillian Robinson

September 20th, 2007

Change Your Life Through Travel

For those interested in exploring travel as a spiritual and life enhancing exercise, this book is for you. Experienced traveler and filmmaker Jillian Robinson details the transformative aspects of travel through a strong format of chapter topics …

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Surrender or Starve, by Robert D. Kaplan

September 20th, 2007

Surrender or Starve

If you are looking for a light-hearted humorous travel title, this isn’t it. However, if you want a serious analysis of the political and ethnic factors behind the starvation in the Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, Robert Kaplan has provided …

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A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle

September 20th, 2007

A Year in Provence

As someone who has repeatedly selected countries to live in for a year or more, I enjoyed this book’s peek into the progression of cultural assimilation that occurs when you travel long term in a particular region, ...

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Notes from a Big Country, by Bill Bryson

September 20th, 2007

Notes from a Big Country

This was the book that introduced me to the work of Bill Bryson, via a referral from a traveling friend of mine. It has an easy, relaxed format that will ring true with most any American who …

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Make Your Own Middle East Croutons

September 15th, 2007

Pita bread for croutons

This is basically an Americanized version of croutons that uses up slightly stale pita bread, and blends the flavors from one of my favorite Arabian salads . . . fatoush. These are great to make ahead and store in …

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