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4.7 / 5.0
TOKYO TEMPOS is an enlightening and entertaining collection of essays, thanks to Micheal Pronko’s careful prose beautifully conjuring a sense of place and the occasional...
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4.3 / 5.0
Greg Scott's THE CYCLE OF LIFE is a poignant, often humorous memoir of an epic father-son cycling odyssey across Canada and an engaging tale of...
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August 9, 2024
83 ODYSSEY: An Adventure Down the Spine of America on U.S. Highway 83
By Charles RoamerRating:
4.1 / 5.0
83 ODYSSEY: An Adventure Down the Spine of America on U.S. Highway 83 shines with author Charles Roamer's affection for the Great Plains’ landscape and...
November 13, 2023
EXPLORING WINE REGIONS: The Central Coast of California
By Michael C. Higgins, PhDRating:
3.0 / 5.0
Michael C. Higgins’s EXPLORING WINE REGIONS: The Central Coast of California is a good, solid guide to the region's vineyards, but certain peculiarities of content...
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Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
A valuable resource even in these days of GPS and cell phones, NATIONAL PARK MAPS, compiled by Michael Joseph Oswald, provides a wealth of helpful...
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Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
Michael Joseph Oswald's THE DAYHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE NATIONAL PARKS is chock-full of useful guidance for the dayhiker, offering descriptions of trails, available amenities, the...
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Rating:
4.6 / 5.0
Kyle Battisti's SOMEWHERE FOUND (Travels in Obscurity) is vividly written and delivers a true sense of life-affirming joy, blending history and culture from inaccessible corners...
September 18, 2023
VAN LIFE WITH CATS (The Digital Nomad’s Guide to Traveling the Americas)
By Damen HowardRating:
3.5 / 5.0
Damen Howard's VAN LIFE WITH CATS (The Digital Nomad’s Guide to Traveling the Americas) is a short and simple guide best used as a starting...
Rating:
3.8 / 5.0
Gordon Schwerzmann's enthusiastic and informative memoir, SOLDIER TO SOJOURNER, details his time serving in Korea and provides a fascinating and insightful account of the culture...
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5.0 / 5.0
Written with the enthusiasm, erudition, and cinematic eye of a dedicated explorer, David Kintore's evocative, lavishly detailed SILVER SCREEN CITIES AMSTERDAM & BRUSSELS is not...
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3.5 / 5.0
An artistic and varied outsider's take on Italy, UNDER VESUVIUS: A Reflective Travelogue in Verse and Prose, paints a picture of the place and also...
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4.6 / 5.0
Somewhere between timeless adventure (Kerouac’s "On The Road") and tortured sojourn (Neal Peart’s "Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road"), there exists THE TOPOGRAPHY OF...