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Category Archives: Travel Writing
Literary Road Trips
For the last century, American road trips have inspired authors to write great novels and memoirs based on their travels by car, bus, or motorcycle. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Jack Kerouac the open road has launched a special form … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Public Transport, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA, Writing
Tagged Bill Bryson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Tom Wolfe
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Seeing Philadelphia in 1845
Philadelphia: City Sights for Little Folks features illustrations of things you could expect to see on a journey through town in 1845. The title, which offers brief descriptions and occasional rhymes, was surprisingly written for children. The book was printed via stereotype, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Travel Writing, USA, Writing
Tagged Philadelphia, Publishing and Printing
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Bookstore Tourism: London
When I first discovered London’s iconic Stanfords in 1986, Britain’s largest travel bookstore was already 133 years old. Located in a beautiful turn-of-the-century building on Long Acre in the heart of Covent Garden since 1901, the shop has one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Maps, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Bookselling, Covent Garden, Globes, London, Travel literature
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How Airports Work
When I was a young child my Grandfather had a job that took him all over the world for work. I always begged to go along to the airport to drop him off or pick him up for flights. The … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Architecture, Art, Books, Public Transport, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Air Travel, airports, travel books
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Fall Into Autumn
One of the few unsullied pleasures left to us in the waning days of the failing American experiment is our annual Fall foliage extravaganza. In just about every corner of this once great nation, nature provides an awe-inspiring show of … Continue reading
Back of Beyond (update)
In May, I posted a story about this wonderful Utah bookstore, now just in time for the 50th anniversary of Edward Abbey’s environmental classic Desert Solitaire, Back of Beyond Books in Moab, has launched three different publishing projects to release work that both … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA, Writing
Tagged Bookstore Tourism, Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey, Moab, Utah
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NYC Way-Back Machine
Many years ago, when I made the transition from book collector to bookseller, a client asked me to locate a copy of “The Picture of New-York, Or The Traveller’s Guide Through The Commercial Metropolis of the United States, By a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Maps, Travel Writing, USA
Tagged Internet Archive, New York City, Travel Guidebooks
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Maps Telling Stories
I have always believed that every map tells a story. When it come to exploring a geographic narrative, there are no better vehicles than 20th century illustrated maps. In the second of our series of guest posts from Dutch author … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Europe, History, Maps, Public Transport, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Cartography, Cartoons, Europe by Rail, Illustration, railways
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Along Straight Lines
Those of you who are regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages are well aware of my fascination with railway travel and with maps. While I am a mere dilettante, I recently had the good fortune to connect with someone … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, History, Maps, Public Transport, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Cartography, Europe by Rail, European travel, railways
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Death Before Decaf
As a life-long coffee addict and devoted aficianado, I was thrilled to get turned-on to a periodical that is “about coffee, the people who drink it, and the cities they inhabit.” Drift magazine is all about the joys of wandering great cities, … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Photography, South America, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA
Tagged Coffee, Havana, Magazines, Melbourne, Stockholm, travel magazines
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