| | | Travelers' Tales News Brief December 12, 2016
GIVE THE GIFT OF TRAVEL FOR THE HOLIDAYS OR HELP SAVE THE TIGERS (see bottom)
| | | The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 We're thrilled to announce the release of the latest in our Best Travel Writing series. Featuring an Introduction by Rolf Potts, this volume captures the wonder, joy, and yes, tribulations of world travel. In The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11, readers will:- Piece together the puzzle of life in rural Cambodia
- Reawaken the joy of travel on a bus ride through Mexico
- Reexamine war memories with former soldiers in Vietnam
- Learn the ropes and the art of sailing with a "good captain" on the Pacific
- Find a true soul sister in the highlands of Ecuador
- Follow Vincent van Gogh's footsteps in France
- Survive (or not) a home invasion in Brazil…and much more
| | | 100 Places in Spain Every Woman Should Go Discover Spain's Best Places for Women Patricia Harris began visiting Spain shortly after the death of dictator Francisco Franco and she has since witnessed the country's renaissance in art, culture, and cuisine. Drawing on three decades of intimate acquaintance, she leads readers down to the docks of fishing villages, along twisting mountain roads, into the shoe outlets of Elche, out to the muddy saffron fields of La Mancha. She takes you through the streets of Sevilla, Madrid, Barcelona, and San Sebastian to dark flamenco clubs, sybaritic public baths, endlessly inventive tapas bars, design shops full of mantillas and fans, and into a brightly tiled chocolatería for hot chocolate and churros at 3 a.m. Harris explores art and architecture, and tells the tales of formidable Spanish women. Literary, sexy, whimsical, and even spiritual, 100 Places in Spain Every Woman Should Go is for the smart and curious traveler who wants to see Spain, her way. | | | 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, Third Edition Discover Italy's Best Places for Women Imagine creating an Italian dream vacation with a fun-loving savvy traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear. Go with writer Susan Van Allen on a femme-friendly ride up and down the boot, to explore an extraordinarily enchanting country where Venus (Vixen Goddess of Love and Beauty) and The Madonna (Nurturing Mother of Compassion) reign side by side. With humor, passion, and practical details, this uniquely anecdotal guidebook will enrich your Italian days. Enjoy masterpieces of art that glorify womanly curves, join a cooking class taught by revered grandmas, shop for ceramics, ski the Dolomites, or paint a Tuscan landscape. Make your trip a string of Golden Days, by pairing your experience with the very best restaurant nearby, so sensual delights harmonize and you simply bask in the glow of bell'Italia.
| | | Billy Gogan, American Be sure to pick up Billy Gogan, American, the engaging first novel of Chicago author Roger Higgins. In 1844, Ireland is on the eve of the Great Hunger and 15-year-old Billy's father has just died in an English prison in Dublin. Billy is cast from cousin Séamas's house and forced to make his way to America. Aboard a ramshackle old ship, Billy befriends a destitute Irish peasant and her daughter, and together they endure a harsh passage to New York, America's greatest city. When they finally arrive, they get separated as they debark, and Billy searches tirelessly for them in the brutal Five Points, the city's greatest slum, ground zero in the collision of Americans, ex-slaves, and Irish refugees. Billy eventually finds them and they plan their future together, but that future is taken in a cruel stroke, and nothing will ever be the same. Learn more about Billy Gogan at BillyGogan.com. | | | Wings: Gifts of Art, Life, and Travel in France Journey into the heart of past and present France with Erin Byrne France is steeped in refined traditions, with its rich history, exquisite art, robust culture, and varied cuisine. Writer Erin Byrne was changed by traveling around this country with the ghosts of artists and historical figures who shared with her their guides to living. Wings is a collection of essays drawn from Byrne's travels across the country. From Cézanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence to a tiny village in the Jura Mountains, from a neighborhood bistro on the Left Bank of Paris to a plain high above the Normandy beaches, she travels through France collecting stories, characters, tastes, and secrets that act as ingredients for change, then takes those experiences and digs deeper to uncover meaning. | | | Already have your copies? Consider a donation to The Fund For The Tiger, an organization dedicated to the conservation of this majestic creature. | | | A note from our editor, Larry Habegger:
At this time of year and especially after this challenging political season, we all have causes we need to, and want to, support. One that is especially important to me is The Fund for the Tiger, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to conserve the wild tigers of India and Nepal. I've been on the board of directors of this group since its inception in 1996, and over the past 20 years we have donated $923,200 to efforts in tiger territory where they're needed most, on the front lines of anti-poaching and community awareness. We have been especially successful in educating local communities on the peripheries of national parks and forests about both the moral obligations and community benefits of protecting tigers in the wild. Through these efforts we've created and supported citizen anti-poaching patrols that have aided in many arrests, and raised awareness among thousands of villagers so they now protect the forests instead of encroaching on them. We do the work the big NGOs don't, and virtually all of the money we receive goes straight into the field. | | |
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