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The ULTIMATE Travel Resource Library – Part III: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales

By on June 8, 2012 in Book Review, Europe, Travel Literature Library

The FULL Travel library is available here You already know we’re book hounds here at Around the World in Eighty Years.   Heck, the name itself is an ode to the literature of travel. I never go anywhere without a stack of travel books. I’m obsessed with knowing as much as I can about a [...]

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Books of the Marvels of the World – 21 Best Travel Books of All Time

By on February 20, 2012 in Book Review

For me, quality travel literature goes beyond a travel journal or a simple list of dates and events. The “travel-adventure” genre is WAY overdone and generally quite boring to me. Travel literature is writing of high literary value that sets down for posterity the experiences of a man or woman traveling in a land and/or [...]

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Book Review: “Chasing Aphrodite”

By on September 19, 2011 in Archaeology, Book Review

Any interest in a story that involves tax-evasion, Swiss bank accounts, imaginary archaeologists, the mafia, bribery, money-laundering, art thieves, reclusive billionaires, ethically challenged CEOs, obsessed police investigators, and the world’s most incredible archaeological treasures? Pulitzer Prize finalists Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino offer up just that in Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at [...]

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A Few Morsels of News

By on September 6, 2011 in Uncategorized

Morning! A few things to point you to this morning. First off, one of my August monsoon morning shots was chosen Picture of the Week over at Santa Fe Travelers – a great travel resource, BTW. Second, I’m about ready to put out the first of two photography books I will be publishing this fall. [...]

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Books of the Marvels of the World – My Top 21 Best Travel Books of All Time (11-16)

By on June 22, 2011 in Book Review

What is great travel literature for me? I explained that here in 1-5, so lets jump right in.  11. Riding the Iron Rooster. Paul Theroux I’ve always thought that after five minutes with Theroux I’d want to sock him in the face.  I mean, I totally respect the guy for his intelligence and amazing travels but he [...]

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Books of the Marvels of the World – My Top 21 Best Travel Books of All Time (6-10)

By on June 15, 2011 in Book Review

What is great travel literature for me? I explained that here in 1-5, so lets jump right in. 6. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Robert Louis Stevenson  I agree with Junius Maltby (The Pastures of Heaven), Travels with a Donkey is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. Sickly young [...]

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Book Review: “Early Eighteenth Century Britain” by Lorna Coventry

By on June 9, 2011 in Archaeology, Book Review, Europe

The national debt is growing out of control, a vicious and divisive political climate inhibits the nation, the moneyed elite are running the government, economic collapse and financial meltdown put millions out of work, foreign military deployments are a constant drain, violent, gun-toting right-wing reactionaries are threatening rebellion, no public health care exists, private prisons [...]

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Books of the Marvels of the World – My Top 21 Best Travel Books of All Time (1-5)

By on June 6, 2011 in Book Review

For me, quality travel literature goes beyond a travel journal or a simple list of dates and events. The “travel-adventure” genre is WAY overdone and generally quite boring to me. Travel literature is writing of high literary value that sets down for posterity the experiences of a man or woman traveling in a land and/or [...]

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