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FROM: Vicki Biehl <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/29/01, 8:31 PM

St. Charles Public Library has lots of reading lists.

http://www.st-charles.lib.il.us/low/adltread.htm

If you click on the NON-FICTION link, you'll find a
list of lists that includes two with "travel
narratives." Also, their SENSE OF PLACE page includes
fiction lists dealing with travel to faraway places in
some fashion or another.

Vicki Biehl
Pearl River Public Library
Pearl River, NY 10965


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FROM: "Karen Traynor" <[removed]@midyork.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 5/29/01, 8:31 PM

One of my library book groups is in the process of selecting books for the
coming years schedule. We usually do a non-fiction "travel" book and I am
looking for ideas. We have done Paul Theroux in the past, and several Bill
Bryson books. I am thinking of suggesting Peter Mayle, but one member was
interested in books set in the Orient, Thailand, etc.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Or is someone could point
me to an existing list---

Karen Traynor
Sullivan Free Library
519 McDonnell Street
Chittenango, NY 13037

FROM: Patricia Gibson <[removed]@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 5/29/01, 9:13 PM

Every woman must read Alice Steinbach's "Without Reservations: The Travels
of an Independent Woman." Her journey was in Europe.
Patricia Gibson
Readers' Advisor
TNRD Library System
100-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca
http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca

FROM: "Smith, Jeff" <[removed]@marshall.usc.edu>
REC'D: 5/29/01, 9:23 PM

> We usually do a non-fiction "travel"
> book and I am
> looking for ideas.


Have you considered Bruce Chatwin? If you're not familiar with him, here is
an article about his work:

http://www.spikemagazine.com/0896chat.htm

And here is a web site devoted to it:

http://www.mindspring.com/~canner/chatwin.htm


Jeff Smith

FROM: Lynne Kobayashi <[removed]@lib.state.hi.us>
REC'D: 5/29/01, 11:20 PM

Consider The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen--a mixture of Himalayan
travel in search of the snow leopard and Buddhism. Also Among Warriors: a
Woman Martial Artist in Tibet by Pamela Logan.

Lynne Kobayashi

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Karen Traynor wrote:

> One of my library book groups is in the process of selecting books for the
> coming years schedule. We usually do a non-fiction "travel" book and I am
> looking for ideas. We have done Paul Theroux in the past, and several Bill
> Bryson books. I am thinking of suggesting Peter Mayle, but one member was
> interested in books set in the Orient, Thailand, etc.
>
> Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Or is someone could point
> me to an existing list---
>
> Karen Traynor
> Sullivan Free Library
> 519 McDonnell Street
> Chittenango, NY 13037
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Anne Kabel <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 7:33 AM

One of my favorites is called "Travels on my elephant" by Mark Shand. An
English travel writer crosses India on the back of his elephant. He goes
through many different places - big cities, abandoned palaces, small
villages and everything in between. It is also a very interesting story
about elephants as well.

Anne Kabel
Adult Reading Librarian
Baldwin Public Library
300 W. Merrill
P.O. Box 3002
Birmingham MI 48012-3002
248- 647-1700

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 8:05 AM

> We usually do a non-fiction "travel" book and I am looking for ideas.
>
"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: "Franz, Patty" <[removed]@pamunkeylibrary.org>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 8:15 AM

Folks -

It has been awhile, but I really enjoyed Pico Iyer's The lady and
the monk : four seasons in Kyoto. The Kirkus review starts this way:

"A critically acclaimed young writer with a warm eye for the incongruous
(Video Night in Kathmandu, 1988) spends a year in Kyoto, intending to both
explore ``the private Japan...the emotional Japan'' and live a life of
Thoreauvian simplicity. Iyer succeeds in his first goal but not completely
in his second as life throws him a curveball in the form of Sachiko, a
pretty and wildly enthusiastic woman in her early 30s. "


Patty Franz
Supervising Librarian
Pamunkey Regional Library
P. O. Box 119
Hanover, VA 23069

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FROM: Kay Mahoney <[removed]@tolland.org>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 8:26 AM

We did Under the Tuscan Sky by Frances Mayes and really enjoyed it, but it was Italy.
Kay Mahoney, Tolland Library

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Traynor [[removed]@midyork.lib.ny.us]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:27 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Travel books

One of my library book groups is in the process of selecting books for the
coming years schedule. We usually do a non-fiction "travel" book and I am
looking for ideas. We have done Paul Theroux in the past, and several Bill
Bryson books. I am thinking of suggesting Peter Mayle, but one member was
interested in books set in the Orient, Thailand, etc.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Or is someone could point
me to an existing list---

Karen Traynor
Sullivan Free Library
519 McDonnell Street
Chittenango, NY 13037

FROM: "Kate Gillette" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 8:47 AM

"Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica" by Sara Wheeler is a
wonderful, humorous blend of her travels among various scientific
bases in Antarctica with fascinating details about historic Antarctic
expeditions.

Kate Gillette
Public Relations/Public Services Librarian
Novi Public Library
Novi, MI

FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 10:55 AM

Here are some possibilities that I've enjoyed:

An Unexpected Light -- Jason Elliot (Travels in contemporary Afghanistan)
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush -- Eric Newby (A classic in travel, details
Newby's hike in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan)
A Stranger in the Forest -- Eric Hansen (Travel in Sarawak)
Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road -- Anthony Weller (Travels along
the Grand Trunk Road in India and Pakistan)

Barry

*******************************************************************************
Barry Trott 7770 Croaker Rd.
Adult Services Director Williamsburg VA 23188
Williamsburg Regional Library Phone: 757-259-4053
[removed]@mail.wrl.org FAX: 757-259-4079
http://www.wrl.org/bookweb/
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Karen Traynor wrote:

> One of my library book groups is in the process of selecting books for the
> coming years schedule. We usually do a non-fiction "travel" book and I am
> looking for ideas. We have done Paul Theroux in the past, and several Bill
> Bryson books. I am thinking of suggesting Peter Mayle, but one member was
> interested in books set in the Orient, Thailand, etc.
>
> Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Or is someone could point
> me to an existing list---
>
> Karen Traynor
> Sullivan Free Library
> 519 McDonnell Street
> Chittenango, NY 13037
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Sally Edwards" <[removed]@cml.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 11:05 AM

Two favorite travel narratives are Night Train to Turkistan and Malaria Dreams by Stuart Stevens.
Sally Edwards
Columbus Metropolitan Library

>>> [removed]@mail.wrl.org 05/30/01 11:49AM >>>
Here are some possibilities that I've enjoyed:

An Unexpected Light -- Jason Elliot (Travels in contemporary Afghanistan)
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush -- Eric Newby (A classic in travel, details
Newby's hike in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan)
A Stranger in the Forest -- Eric Hansen (Travel in Sarawak)
Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road -- Anthony Weller (Travels along
the Grand Trunk Road in India and Pakistan)

Barry

*******************************************************************************
Barry Trott 7770 Croaker Rd.
Adult Services Director Williamsburg VA 23188
Williamsburg Regional Library Phone: 757-259-4053
[removed]@mail.wrl.org FAX: 757-259-4079
http://www.wrl.org/bookweb/
*******************************************************************************

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Karen Traynor wrote:

> One of my library book groups is in the process of selecting books for the
> coming years schedule. We usually do a non-fiction "travel" book and I am
> looking for ideas. We have done Paul Theroux in the past, and several Bill
> Bryson books. I am thinking of suggesting Peter Mayle, but one member was
> interested in books set in the Orient, Thailand, etc.
>
> Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Or is someone could point
> me to an existing list---
>
> Karen Traynor
> Sullivan Free Library
> 519 McDonnell Street
> Chittenango, NY 13037
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 11:16 AM

Also, there's Stranger in Tibet: The Adventures of a Wandering Zen Monk by
Scott Berry. It's the true story of Eikai Kawaguchi who left Japan in
search of uncorrupted Buddhist scriptures. He did all this around the turn
of the 20th century. The cantankerous, strictly vegetarian, accident-prone,
easily-lost scholar was the last person to be turned loose in Tibet, but he
made the trip, a couple of times, and he got the scriptures.

........................................................................
Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac


-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Edwards [[removed]@cml.lib.oh.us]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:00 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Travel books


Two favorite travel narratives are Night Train to Turkistan and Malaria
Dreams by Stuart Stevens.
Sally Edwards
Columbus Metropolitan Library

>>> [removed]@mail.wrl.org 05/30/01 11:49AM >>>
Here are some possibilities that I've enjoyed:

An Unexpected Light -- Jason Elliot (Travels in contemporary Afghanistan)
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush -- Eric Newby (A classic in travel, details
Newby's hike in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan)
A Stranger in the Forest -- Eric Hansen (Travel in Sarawak)
Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road -- Anthony Weller (Travels along
the Grand Trunk Road in India and Pakistan)

Barry

****************************************************************************
***
Barry Trott 7770 Croaker Rd.
Adult Services Director Williamsburg VA 23188
Williamsburg Regional Library Phone: 757-259-4053
[removed]@mail.wrl.org FAX: 757-259-4079
http://www.wrl.org/bookweb/
****************************************************************************
***

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Karen Traynor wrote:

> One of my library book groups is in the process of selecting books for the
> coming years schedule. We usually do a non-fiction "travel" book and I am
> looking for ideas. We have done Paul Theroux in the past, and several
Bill
> Bryson books. I am thinking of suggesting Peter Mayle, but one member was
> interested in books set in the Orient, Thailand, etc.
>
> Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Or is someone could point
> me to an existing list---
>
> Karen Traynor
> Sullivan Free Library
> 519 McDonnell Street
> Chittenango, NY 13037
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Aaron Smith <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 11:26 AM

Karen, et al. -

A title that comes to mind that would make a remarkable selection for a
reading group is Annie Dillard's _For the time being_, a meditation on the
author's travels in Israel and China, and on the life work of the early
20th century mystic anthropologist Teilhard de Chardin. While not a travel
book per se, it offers the kind of cultural sweep that could engage a
group.

Aaron
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio

>
> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Karen Traynor wrote:
>
> > One of my library book groups is in the process of selecting books for the
> > coming years schedule. We usually do a non-fiction "travel" book and I am
> > looking for ideas. We have done Paul Theroux in the past, and several Bill
> > Bryson books. I am thinking of suggesting Peter Mayle, but one member was
> > interested in books set in the Orient, Thailand, etc.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Or is someone could point
> > me to an existing list---
> >
> > Karen Traynor
> > Sullivan Free Library
> > 519 McDonnell Street
> > Chittenango, NY 13037
> >
> >
> > ......................................................................
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> > Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
> >
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: [removed]@mln.lib.ma.us
REC'D: 5/30/01, 11:26 AM

I really liked Village of Waiting by George Packer, about his work
as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo. It's not totally a travel book,
so it may not fit all your criteria.


Megan Flynn
Wellesley Free Library
Wellesley MA

FROM: Sarah Nagle <[removed]@co.carver.mn.us>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 12:50 PM

I have enjoyed the two books by Robert Kaplan, BALKAN GHOSTS: A JOURNEY
THROUGH HISTORY and EASTWARD TO TARTARY: TRAVELS IN THE BALKANS, THE MIDDLE
EAST, AND THE CAUCASUS.

FROM: Vicki Biehl <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 1:11 PM

There's also Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
in which the author tries to win a bet by hitchhiking
around Ireland with a (albeit small) refrigerator in
tow.

Vicki Biehl
Pearl River Public Library
Pearl River, NY

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FROM: Celeste Choate <[removed]@cmpl.org>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 1:21 PM

According to amazon.con, in Mark Salzman's "Iron and Silk"

"Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a
young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student)
relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher."

It's a wonderful book and an enjoyable movie, as well.

Celeste Choate
Clinton-Macomb Public Library
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FROM: Fran Burke-Urr <[removed]@co.fauquier.va.us>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 3:17 PM

Regarding the search for non-fiction travel books on the Orient

Two suggestions:

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer (plus there's a movie version with Brad Pitt)

or a new travel/adventure book: "Courting the Diamond Sow: a whitewater expedition on Tibet's forbidden river "
by Wickliffe Walker, c.2000 published by National Geographic

It's about the Brahmaputra River and kayaking.


Fran Burke-Urr
Collection Development Manager
Fauquier County Public Library

FROM: Susan Creed <[removed]@spokanelibrary.org>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 5:03 PM

I think Pico Iyer's books are a great suggestion. I especially enjoyed
"Falling off the Map" and his latest, "Global Soul." Very thought provoking.

Another fascinating book from recent years is "Byzantine Journey" by John
Ash. Author travels around Turkey looking at evidence of the former
Byzantine Empire. It made me want to go to Capadocia (SP?) to see the
churches dug in the sides of the hills.

Another favorite traveler-author is Dervla Murphy. "Full Tilt: from
Ireland to India by Bicycle" and several others would fit the need for an
Asian setting.


>One of my library book groups is in the process of selecting books for the
>coming years schedule. We usually do a non-fiction "travel" book and I am
>looking for ideas. We have done Paul Theroux in the past, and several Bill
>Bryson books. I am thinking of suggesting Peter Mayle, but one member was
>interested in books set in the Orient, Thailand, etc.

Susan Creed
Youth Services Librarian,
Shadle Library
Spokane Public Library
2111 W. Wellesley
Spokane, WA 99205
[removed]@spokanelibrary.org

FROM: "Waznis, Betty" <[removed]@sdcl.org>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 6:50 PM

Jonathan Raban writes fascinating off-beat books of travel and description.
Badland and Old Glory make ordinary Midwest locations exotic. Arabia:
Journey through the Labyrinth is a better fit geographically for you, but
it's somewhat older.

Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library

FROM: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 8:26 PM

Most suggestions I can think of regarding travel in the Orient are
several years (or decades) old. They don't deal with current situations,
and may be out of print, but I'll mention them in case they might be of
interest to somebody.

The Oxford American magazine recently published a retrospective article
about Richard Halliburton, whose travel books were popular back in the
1920's and 30's. I haven't read them myself, but the article was
interesting. The table of contents of my aging copy of "The Royal Road
to Romance" lists Tibet, Angkor, China, etc., among the places he passes
through. It might be interesting to compare his experiences in the early
twentieth century with what one would find in the same places today.

In the same vein, one might look at Aldous Huxley's "Jesting Pilate :
Travels through India, Malaya, Japan, China, and America". (The title
comes from a poem by Francis Bacon: "'What is Truth?', asked jesting
Pilate, / and would not stay for an answer....")

Other possibilities that come to mind:

"Across China", by Peter Jenkins (author of the National Geographic "Walk
Across America" series and subsequent books)
"Stranger in the Forest: on foot across Borneo", by Eric Hansen

For the classicists: Thor Heyerdahl? Marco Polo? Perhaps someone
following in M.P.'s footsteps, as described in a recent National
Geographic article?

Bradley A. Scott

"Name and occupation?" he demanded with mock officiousness.
"Halliburton -- horizon chaser. And yours?"
(from "The Royal Road to Romance")
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> >One of my library book groups is in the process of selecting books
> for the
> >coming years schedule. We usually do a non-fiction "travel" book
> and I am
> >looking for ideas. We have done Paul Theroux in the past, and
> several Bill
> >Bryson books. I am thinking of suggesting Peter Mayle, but one
> member was
> >interested in books set in the Orient, Thailand, etc.
>
> Susan Creed
> Youth Services Librarian,
> Shadle Library
> Spokane Public Library
> 2111 W. Wellesley
> Spokane, WA 99205
> [removed]@spokanelibrary.org
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "Warner" <[removed]@massed.net>
REC'D: 5/31/01, 3:16 AM

Books by Tim Severin, who replicates famous travels, for example, through
France with a donkey a la RLS and others. Judy Warner
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FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 5/31/01, 7:37 AM

My list would be far too long, but I'm enjoying this thread, being
interested in the same subject:
Reid, T.R. Confucious lives next door
about the time he and his family spent in Japan, but also about cultural
contrasts between East and West

David-Neel, Alexandra My journey to Lhasa this took place in
the early 20th Century and a new edition has recently been published with a
foreword by the Dalai Lama and a preface contrasting what she saw to what
exists now

Galland, China Longing for darkness: Tara and the Black
Madonna...
The first part deals with Tibet and Buddhism, and all of it with her
personal spiritual struggles

Chadwick, David Thank you and OK! An American Zen Failure in
Japan
Although Chadwick didn't succeeed as a Zen monk, he did marry and live in
Japan...both funny and thought-provoking

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