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Category Archives: Travel Writing
A Book of Marvels
The Book of the Marvels of the World, an illustrated guide to the globe filled with oddities, curiosities, and wonders for the medieval armchair traveler exhibition opened this week at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. Running … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Maps, Middle East, Museums, Travel Writing
Tagged medieval Europe, medieval manuscripts, Morgan Library & Museum, New York City
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Sacré bleu
The 1937 phrasebook Collins’ Pocket Interpreters: France paints an alarming picture of a typical visit to France: I cannot open my case. I have lost my keys. I did not know that I had to pay. I cannot find my porter. Excuse … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged dictionary, France, French, phrasebook
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For what gives value to travel is fear.
“For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. One can no longer cheat — hide behind the hours spent at the office or at the plant (those hours we protest … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Restaurants, Tourism, Travel Writing, Writing
Tagged Albert Camus, Travel
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Just another marbled Monday
The wavy patterns on the edges, covers, and endpapers on this tooled and blind-stamped, half-bound book are from Carew’s Survey of Cornwall printed in London by Thomas Bensley for J. Faulder and Rees and Curtis in 1811. The marbled-paper pattern is what the University of Washington’s site … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, Europe, History, Travel Writing
Tagged Cornwall, England, Fore Edge, Paper marbling
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Bookstore Tourism: Portlandia
It’s always good news to discover that a new indie bookshop has opened in the U.S.. But it’s great news when it turns out to be a travel bookstore. Even if you can’t get to Portland, Oregon IRL, you can … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA
Tagged Bookselling, Oregon, Portland
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It’s a small world
The older that I get, the more often I stumble on snippets of information online that immediately triggers personal memory links to my own experience. In this category, I recently saw a reference to the innovative science-fiction short La Jetée by the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Books, Europe, Film, Middle East, movies, Photography, South America, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Chris Marker, France, time travel, Travel Guidebooks
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“Renaissance Baedeker”
I first learned about the 15th century incunabula Mirabilia Romae while I was researching a magazine article on the history of the travel guidebook. One of the earliest European printed guidebooks, the Mirabilia Urbis Romaea is a geographically arranged inventory of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Europe, History, Museums, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Incunabula, Rome
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Obvious travel advice and more
Obvious travel advice, including “Mindset matters more than where you go”, and “Don’t confuse scarcity with value. A really good afternoon in the park (a really good one) is maybe about as good as it gets.” I recently purchased what may be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Museums, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA
Tagged guidebooks, Moleskine, Mutter Museum
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Mapping Meaningful Travel
Tourism Cares, a leading non-profit dedicated to advancing sustainability within the tourism industry, announce the launch of its “Get on the Map” campaign, a month-long initiative running from October 1 through October 31, 2024. The campaign is designed to inspire … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Europe, Maps, South America, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA
Tagged adventure travel, Cartography, sustainable tourism
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