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Authors:Pamela Michael, Robert Ha,
Publisher: Travelers’ Tale
Keywords: travelers, tales, guides, water, life, rivers, true, stories, gift
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-04-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1885211422
ISBN-13: 9781885211422
Rushing, rolling, flowing - rivers provide the ultimate metaphor for movement. They carve borders, create livelihoods, provoke adventure, and offer healing. From white-knuckle rafting rides to fishing stories to eco-essays, this collection by top authors explores the historical, practical, and spiritual significance of rivers.
Author: Rolf Pott
Publisher: Travelers’ Tale
Keywords: writer, travel, travelers, tales, guides, postmodern, decade, didn, polo, stories, revelations, one, marco
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1932361618
ISBN-13: 9781932361612
Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys—from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert, to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, to learning the se
Author: Joel L. Widzer
Publisher: Travelers’ Tale
Keywords: customer, preferred, status, travelers, tales, cultivating, art, pincher, passport, luxury, travel, penny
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2008-03-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 193236157X
ISBN-13: 9781932361575
Who says loyalty isn’t appreciated? Follow the advice laid out in The Penny Pincher’s Passport to Luxury Travel and you may find yourself wallowing in the pleasures of luxury without breaking the bank--especially if you travel often and stick like glue to one company. Grateful airlines and hotels often respond to such brand loyalty with free seat or room upgrades, the first steps towards living the life of Riley at the same cost as those Joes cramped behind in coach. Widzer--with a business degree from Pepperdine, a career in marketing, and a million-mile award from his chosen airl
Author: Joel L. Widzer
Publisher: Travelers’ Tale
Keywords: customer, preferred, status, travelers, tales, cultivating, art, pincher, passport, luxury, travel, penny
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-05-24
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1932361049
ISBN-13: 9781932361049
Who says loyalty isn’t appreciated? Follow the advice laid out in The Penny Pincher’s Passport to Luxury Travel and you may find yourself wallowing in the pleasures of luxury without breaking the bank--especially if you travel often and stick like glue to one company. Grateful airlines and hotels often respond to such brand loyalty with free seat or room upgrades, the first steps towards living the life of Riley at the same cost as those Joes cramped behind in coach. Widzer--with a business degree from Pepperdine, a career in marketing, and a million-mile award from his chosen airl
Author: David Elliot Cohe
Publisher: Travelers’ Tale
Keywords: journey, children, world, round, year, leaving, one
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2001-06-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1885211651
ISBN-13: 9781885211651
On the one hand, you’ve got to like this book. When David Elliott Cohen turned 40, he freaked out, sold everything, swooped up his wife and three kids, and took a year off to travel around the world--from Costa Rica and Burgundy to Zimbabwe, Laos, and Sydney--with clan in tow. This gutsy dive into the non-antiseptic, non-Americanized world (a dream for some), offers an entertaining peek into family life on the road. Written in a personal, personable e-mail style, it’s often hilarious. On the other hand, you may think Cohen is nuts. His kids cause scenes, break bones, and are often
Author: Richard Sterling
Publisher: Travelers’ Tale
Keywords: tales, travelers, road, taste, food
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2002-03-19
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1885211775
ISBN-13: 9781885211774
In this revised and updated edition of Food--Silver Medal winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book--the world is revealed through the medium of cuisine. Join such top writers as M. F. K. Fisher, P. J. ORourke, Colin Thubron, Ginu Kamani, Simon Loftus, and Gary Paul Nabhanon on culinary quests of all kinds: dine with locals in Casablanca on a determined pilgrimage for an authentic meal; encounter a mysterious prankster in a garden in the South of France; and go crabbing under the stars on a romantic night in the Caribbean.
Author: Lucy McCauley
Publisher: Travelers’ Tale
Keywords: travelers, tales, guides, stories, spain, true
Number of Pages: 475
Published: 2002-05-06
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1885211783
ISBN-13: 9781885211781
Journey into Spain with some of the worlds best writers, and discover a country of heightened senses, bougainvillea blossoming in crimson and orange, and air pungent with sizzling olive oil. Readers travel the ancient road to Santiago, get a glimpse of Pamplona during the running of the bulls, walk in Don Quixotes footsteps on a midlife quest, and follow a womans dream to study the male art of flamenco guitar. These soulful stories of travel in a land poised between the old world and new. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Barbara Kingsolver, Calvin Trillin, and Penelope Casas are among the aut
