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FROM: Vicki Biehl <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/29/01, 8:31 PM
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
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
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
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
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Anne Kabel <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 7:33 AM
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
Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library
FROM: "Franz, Patty" <[removed]@pamunkeylibrary.org>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 8:15 AM
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
-----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
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
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
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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
>>> [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
........................................................................
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
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
> >
> >
> > ......................................................................
> > Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> > 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
Megan Flynn
Wellesley Free Library
Wellesley MA
FROM: Sarah Nagle <[removed]@co.carver.mn.us>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 12:50 PM
FROM: Vicki Biehl <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 1:11 PM
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
"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
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
Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library
FROM: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 5/30/01, 8:26 PM
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
FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 5/31/01, 7:37 AM
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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