Dec 31st, 2007 at 3:30PM: As the year draws to a close, instead of compiling a list of favorite books from 2007, I've decided to focus this last post on what's to come. Looking forward, there are some interesting travel titles set for release during 2008. Maybe you'll find something among these to add to your "must-read" list for the new year: For Louisiana lovers: Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana by ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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One for the Road Looks Ahead: Ten Travel Books on Tap for 2008
Dec 31st, 2007 at 3:30PM: As the year draws to a close, instead of compiling a list of favorite books from 2007, I've decided to focus this last post on what's to come. Looking forward, there are some interesting travel titles set for release during 2008. Maybe you'll find something among these to add to your "must-read" list for the new year: For Louisiana lovers: Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana by ...One for the Road: Trading in Memories
Dec 31st, 2007 at 11:30AM: At year's end, there are always special moments for remembering - for looking back at all that transpired over the past 365 days. And when it comes to travel, that means taking stock of the ground covered as we each moved about the earth. The easiest way for me to recall where I've been is to flip through my journals, bursting at the seams with ticket stubs, bookmarks, stickers and receipts. ...One for the Road: Down in New Orleans
Dec 30th, 2007 at 6:00PM: Last year during the holidays, I was down in New Orleans with some members of my family, participating in a week-long service trip. We gutted homes, discussed human rights issues, and listened to residents who were willing to share their stories -- of hope, anger and frustration. We ended our week by spending New Years Eve downtown, celebrating what is good about the city, and what is surviving, ...One for the Road: Smiling at the World
Dec 26th, 2007 at 3:30PM: Here's a feel-good travel memoir for the day after Christmas. Keep the good-tidings alive by curling up with Joyce Major's memoir of her inspiring volunteer travels around the world. Maybe Smiling at the World will inspire you to plan some do-good travel in the coming year? Major's memoir recounts her year-long voluntourism adventures in South Africa, Thailand, China, Greece, Ireland, Italy, ...One for the Road: First Class - Legendary Train Journeys Around the World
Dec 21st, 2007 at 11:30AM: Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, otherwise known as PPDA, is a well known French news anchor and author of France from the Air. In his latest travel-themed book, released earlier this year, the famous Frenchman finds himself back on land, celebrating the allure and romance of grand train journeys. First Class: Legendary Train Journeys Around the World is packaged in an enticing luggage box designed to ...One for the Road: Charm City - A Walk Through Baltimore
Dec 20th, 2007 at 1:00PM: I'm super excited about today's book suggestion. The latest title in Crown's Journey Series is Charm City: A Walk Through Baltimore by Madison Smartt Bell. The cover itself, decorated with Hon hair and a photo of the famous Painted Ladies, is enough for me to know -- I want to read this book! When I first started writing for Gadling back in 2005, I was still a Baltimore resident, and I've ...One for the Road: Evidence of My Existence
Dec 19th, 2007 at 11:00AM: Jim Lo Scalzo has been a staff photographer for US News & World Report since 1994. His new memoir is a moving look at the life of a photojournalist who has traveled the world. Evidence of My Existence tells the story Lo Scalzo's 17 years on the job as an "obsessive wanderlust" -- He handled assignments in over 60 countries, capturing important news stories, while jeopardizing his ...One for the Road: Nomad's Hotel
Dec 17th, 2007 at 12:30PM: In the past week, I've come across two different thumbs up for a collection of travel essays by Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom. I've now added Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space to my 2008 "really-must-read" list and wanted to give all of you list-loving readers a chance to do the same. Here's what I've gathered: First, in the latest issue of Geist, Michael Kozlowski describes the pieces in ...One for the Road: Into Hot Air
Dec 15th, 2007 at 9:30PM: Funny man Chris Elliott has taken his comedy to new heights in his third book, a comic spoof on a classic travel adventure that was released last month. Into Hot Air: Mounting Mount Everest is a novel that pokes fun at, well, just about everything, including the author himself. Elliott's narrator, also named Elliott, wonders if it really was Sir Edmund Hillary who was the first to scale Everest. ...One for the Road: Planet Earth
Dec 13th, 2007 at 10:30AM: The BBC's much-praised Planet Earth series was shown in the US on the Discovery Channel earlier this year. It was accompanied by the publication of a companion book, Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before, which jumped up some notches on the New York Times bestseller list this week, partially due to an encore presentation of the show. As another year of traveling comes to a close, the book ...One for the Road: Street World
Dec 11th, 2007 at 9:30AM: From Get Lost Books list of suggested holiday gift-giving titles comes Street World: Urban Art from Five Continents, a collection of street scenes that stretches from Mumbai to Los Angeles. The colorful hardcover is divided into more than 50 topics and includes over 500 photographs of artistic public displays from around the world. Street World celebrates subculture creativity in all its forms: ...One for the Road: Instant Gratification
Dec 10th, 2007 at 9:00AM: Gadling goddess Adrienne Wilson hasn't written here in awhile, because she's been super busy traveling the world and...making a book! As she explains in detail on her personal blog, Instant Gratification is a first volume of photographs from Adrienne's growing collection of global snapshots, many taken during her travels over the past seven years. In her own words, Adrienne explains the project: ...One for the Road: Bad Trips
Dec 9th, 2007 at 11:30AM: Feel free to complain about today's pick -- a title from the archives -- but I just felt like following up a Head Trip with a collection of Bad Trips. Fact is, this semi-ancient anthology received lukewarm reviews, but we're going to feature it today anyway -- some of you may still fancy a go at it: Bad Trips, originally published in 1991, is followed by this rather long and not-so-good subtitle: ...One for the Road: The Head Trip
Dec 8th, 2007 at 9:00PM: Here's a second creative travel-themed title from a Canadian writer featured here this week: Science journalist Jeff Warren takes readers on a tour of the mind in The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness. This "field-guide" to the mind explores lucid dreaming, Eastern meditative practices, hypnosis, neurofeedback and other brain awareness activities. From the publisher: Part user's ...One for the Road: Hotel - An American History
Dec 7th, 2007 at 11:30AM: A copy of this book, paired with some room reservations at a classic American hotel, might be a nice holiday gift for the history buff in your life: Hotel - An American History is a volume of stories and illustrations that explores how the hotel came to be in this country. The book tracks the invention of hotels in America, as inns and taverns gave way to the creation of majestic architectural ...One for the Road: The Geography of Hope - A Tour of the World We Need
Dec 6th, 2007 at 9:00AM: From Canada, the Globe and Mail's Top 100 books of 2007, introduces us to Chris Turner's story, The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need, in which the author travels the world in search of finding hope for a sustainable future for his daughter. What he discovers, with regards to sustainable design, housing, power and community, is both positive and promising. Turner's travels take him ...One for the Road: Globetrotter's Logbook
Dec 5th, 2007 at 9:00AM: Last time I mentioned the Globetrotter's Logbook series, I focused on their newest guide, a niche book devoted to six Flemish cities. But now that I've had a chance to personally use their flagship product, Counties of the World, I wanted to be sure to pay special tribute to this unique mini-book, which might just be the perfect holiday gift for that special traveler in your life. The best part ...One for the Road: Notable African Explorers - Stanley, Hatton and Mahoney
Dec 4th, 2007 at 8:30AM: The New York Times just released its list of 100 Notable Books of 2007. Although we previously mentioned notable selection Down the Nile by Rosemary Mahoney, two other adventure-themed titles on the list caught my eye: The first is Stanley - The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal. According to Paul Theroux's review, "Of the many biographies of Henry Morton Stanley, Jeal's, ...One for the Road: Don Quixote vs. Donkey Xote
Dec 3rd, 2007 at 9:30AM: Even though this book about Don Quixote was released last year, I thought now was an appropriate time to mention it, since the first animated version of the famous novel will debut in Spain this week. Fighting Windmills - Encounters with Don Quixote takes a closer look at the making of this masterpiece of world literature, tracing its impact on writers and thinkers across the centuries. Authors ...One for the Road: More Words of Worldly Wisdom
Dec 2nd, 2007 at 9:00AM: 'Tis the season of giving, and since I still have a plethora of interesting links to share, here's another round of travel-related reading possibilities. These lit-minded travel topics have been gathered from the usual suspects, as well as some less traditional and slightly obscure sources. Have at it if any of these tickle your fancy: A sleuth-fiction travel guide to a world of crime from the ...
