Book Reviews Articles
Book Review: Japanland by Karin Miuller – Japan AsiaMary Keener recommends Japanland, subtitle A Year in Search of Wa, dedicated to the people of Japan, as a read for those seeking laughter, understanding and knowledge about this small island
Norman Lewis View of the World – Book ReviewPhilip Blazdell profiles a compilation of the works of the travel-writing great, Norman Lewis.
The Ginger Tree – Book ReviewPhilip Blazdell reviews The Ginger Tree, following more than forty years of East-West relationships and the development of modern Japan first through the eyes of this very young and naive girl and, th
A Pike in the Basement – Book ReviewDon’t read Philip Blazdell’s mouth-watering review
Ulysses Travel Guides – Montreal, Quebec, CanadaUlysses Travel Guides Montréal 2001 is a comprehensive softbound guidebook concerning the largest French-speaking city in North America, Montréal.
The authors, Francois Rémillard (Exploring) and Benoit Prieur (Portrait) have done a masterful job of writing a succinct guide that appeals to the traveller, tourist and even the locals.
The book divides itself into eight sections pertaining [...]
Dominican Republic
For those of you who are not purchasing a package deal to the Dominican Republic and are travellers as distinguished from tourists, the handy sixth edition of Ulysses’ softbound edition of Dominican Republic may prove very useful.
This publication was authored by Benoit Prieur and Pascale Couture and is filled with an abundance of facts [...]
AA Gill is AwayAA Gill is Away
AA Gill can not write a bad sentence and to read this book is to experience travel writing at its most sublime. Unlike many other writers who aspire to be travel writers, AA Gill’s prose is free from the genre’s normal pretensions and is like a breath of fresh air. [...]
Europe From a BackpackEurope From A Backpack
Europe From A Backpack is a compilation of short articles of specific European cities prefaced with a quote, a map of the cities and their bordering countries. At the end of each tale is a getting-to-know-the-writer with relevant travel, educational and goal-related topics.
There’s something both familiar and unfamiliar about reading short travel [...]
Around the BlocAround The Bloc
Around The Bloc is not for the faint-hearted, romantic, dreamy traveler who wants to experience a culture without too much discomfort. But it is for the true explorer, the adventurer who relishes assimilating into a way of life by living in and with the people.
Ms. Griest’s bloc focuses on three communist countries [...]
Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny ParkesBegums, Thugs, and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes
Date of first publication: 1850
Eland publication date: November 1, 2002
Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer – courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. She arrived as the prim wife of a minor Civil Servant and left, some [...]
