The Island at the Center of the World Up to now the preponderant view held by many historians is that Dutch contribution to American history and particularly to that of New York has been one of irrelevancy. As we no doubt realize, the winners write history, and unfortunately, whatever the losers may have contributed, it [...]
You Are Here: Traveling with JohnnyJet.com With the thousands of Internet travel guidebooks to choose from it is very difficult to separate the good from the mediocre. You can literally devote days trying to figure out which guide will reveal the most useful information pertaining to the best air-fares, hotels, cars, lodging, student travel, medical [...]
The Bad Girl’s Guide to the Open Road A Bad Girl’s Guide to the Open Road by Cameron Tuttle begins with the line, “Despite what you’ve seen in the movies, you don’t have to kill a man to go on a road trip. Just wanting to kill someone is enough.” Tuttle believes that the perfect [...]
Insight Guides Florida There are a vast number of guidebooks devoted to Florida. Some are very helpful others you might as well save your money, as the information contained is nothing more than what you would usually receive from the travel department for the State of Florida. However, it is not very often when you [...]
Berlitz Ocean Cruising & Cruise Ships 2004 If you have ever taken a cruise you know how frustrating it can be just deciding which cruise to take? There are probably hundreds of books on the topic, not to mention the endless number of newspaper, magazine and Internet articles. Now along comes a guide that probably [...]
Almost French Almost French – Click here to buy this book Sarah Turnbull, an Australian independent backpacker, meets Frédéric, a working Parisian lawyer, in Bucharest. She accepts his invitation to visit Paris for two weeks and subsequently, returns for a lifetime. Ms. Turnbull tells her story of adapting to French culture and of being adopted [...]
Globetrotter Dogma Here’s a 5 x7, 169-page, take-with-you, soft-cover travel gem, smartly and simply illustrated – the world globe imprinted on the top of each even page and the author as trekker on each odd page, interspersed with drawings pertinent to a canon. There are 104 canons “for escaping the rat race and exploring the [...]
Four Wheels Good Can you imagine yourself driving across the USA in 1903 in a single cylinder 12-horse power automobile through the deserts of Nevada and Utah, the muddy plains of the Midwest and over the Rocky Mountains? You encounter rivers that you have to traverse and mountains to overcome. It is the dawn of [...]
Around and About Paris How would you like to have a personal guide as your companion when visiting Paris? A guide that will not only give you a brief history of each and every “Arrondissement” from the first to the twentieth, but as the author states, “a journey into the depths of Paris” and “an [...]
Cheap Eats in Paris Paris, known as the city of lights, has probably the best cuisine in the world. Parisians live to eat! However, as any tourist who has been to Paris will tell you, the choices and prices of restaurants are overwhelming. Unless you have inside knowledge or have a good Parisian local as [...]
