Book Lust to Go
Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
Published on 1. June 2010
320 pages
978-1-57061-701-0 (ISBN)
Description
Adventure is just a book away as bestselling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations - both worldly and imagined - around the globe.
From Las Vegas to the Land of Oz, Naples to Nigeria, Philadelphia to Provence, Nancy Pearl guides readers to the very best fiction and nonfiction to read about each destination. Even within one country, she traverses decades to suggest titles that effortlessly capture the different eras that make up a region's unique history. This enthusiastic literary globetrotting guide includes stops in Korea, Sweden, Afghanistan, Albania, Parma, Patagonia, Texas, and Timbuktu. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. From fiction to memoir, poetry to history, Nancy Pearl's Book Lust to Go takes the reader on a globetrotting adventure - no passport required.
From Las Vegas to the Land of Oz, Naples to Nigeria, Philadelphia to Provence, Nancy Pearl guides readers to the very best fiction and nonfiction to read about each destination. Even within one country, she traverses decades to suggest titles that effortlessly capture the different eras that make up a region's unique history. This enthusiastic literary globetrotting guide includes stops in Korea, Sweden, Afghanistan, Albania, Parma, Patagonia, Texas, and Timbuktu. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. From fiction to memoir, poetry to history, Nancy Pearl's Book Lust to Go takes the reader on a globetrotting adventure - no passport required.
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Nancy Pearl created the program "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book," which has spread across America and around the world. She talks about books and reading on NPR's "Morning Edition" and on other public radio stations. Pearl teaches at the University of Washington and inspires readers across the country. She is the author of several books, including Book Lust, More Book Lust, and George & Lizzie. Pearl lives in Seattle with her husband.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- A IS FOR ADVENTURE
- AFGHANISTAN: GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES
- Nonfiction
- Fiction
- AFRICA: THE GREENEST CONTINENT
- ALBANIA
- ALL SET FOR ALASKA
- AMAZONIA
- AMERICAN GIRLS
- AN ANGLOPHILE'S LITERARY PILGRIMAGE
- APPROACHING APPALACHIA
- ARABIA DESERTA
- ARMENIA
- AUSTRALIA, THE LAND OF OZ
- Nonfiction
- Fiction
- AZ YOU LIKE IT
- THE BALTIC STATES
- BALTIMORE
- BERLIN
- BORNEO AND SARAWAK
- BOSTON: BEANS, BIRD, AND THE RED SOX
- BOTSWANA
- BRAZIL
- BURMESE DAYS
- CAMBODIA
- CANADA, O CANADA
- CAVORTING THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN
- Antigua
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Puerto Rico
- Trinidad and Tobago
- And the Others . . .
- CHESAPEAKE BAY
- CHINA: THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
- CLIMB EV'RY MOUNTAIN
- COMICS WITH A SENSE OF PLACE
- CONGO: FROM COLONIALISM TO CATASTROPHE
- CORFU
- CORNWALL'S CHARMS
- CORSICA
- DEFINITELY DETROIT
- EGYPT
- ENTERING ENGLAND
- ETHIOPIA, OR AS WE USED TO SAY, ABYSSINIA!
- EXPLAINING EUROPE: THE GRAND TOUR
- EXPLORERS
- FROLICKING IN FINLAND
- GALLOPING THROUGH THE GALAPAGOS
- GUERNICA
- GUERNSEY: HISTORY IN FICTION
- HAIL, COLOMBIA!
- HAWAII
- Fiction
- Memoirs
- HIKING THE (FILL IN THE BLANK) TRAIL
- HOLLANDAYS
- HONG KONG
- ICELAND
- IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF . . .
- INDICATIVE OF INDONESIA
- INSIDE THE INSIDE PASSAGE
- IRAN
- IRELAND: BEYOND JOYCE, BEHAN, BECKETT, AND SYNGE
- IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME
- IT'S CHILE TODAY
- JAPANESE JOURNEYS
- JORDAN
- JUST SO MUCH GREEK TO ME
- KENYA
- KIWIS FOREVER!: NEW ZEALAND IN PRINT
- KOREA-NORTH AND SOUTH
- LAOS
- LAS VEGAS
- LEAVENED IN LEBANON
- LIBERIA
- LOS ANGELES: CITY OF ANGELS
- LYME REGIS
- THE MAINE CHANCE
- MAKING TRACKS BY TRAIN
- MALAYSIA
- MARTHA'S VINEYARD
- A MENTION OF THE MIDDLE EAST
- MESSING AROUND ON MALTA
- MIAMI AND ENVIRONS
- NAPLES
- NEBRASKA: THE BIG EMPTY
- NEW GUINEA
- NEW YORK CITY: A TASTE OF THE BIG APPLE
- NEWFOUNDLAND
- NEWS FROM N'ORLEANS
- NIAGARA FALLS
- NIGERIA
- NORTH AFRICAN NOTES
- Algeria
- Morocco
- NORWAY: THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN
- OCEANIA, OR MILES OF ISLES
- OHIOANA
- OXFORD
- Nonfiction
- Mysteries
- Literary Fiction
- PARMA
- PATAGONIA
- PEACE CORPS MEMORIES
- PERU(SING) PERU
- PHILADELPHIA
- POLISH UP YOUR POLISH
- POSTCARDS FROM MEXICO
- PROVENCE AND THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
- ROMAN HOLIDAY
- ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT
- THE SAHARA: SAND BETWEEN YOUR TOES
- SAINT PETERSBURG/ LENINGRAD/SAINT PETERSBURG
- SAN FRANCISCO
- SCENES FROM SRI LANKA
- SCOTLAND: MORE THAN HAGGIS, KILTS, AND IAN RANKIN
- SEE THE SEA
- SERIESOUSLY . . .
- SHELTERING IN THE SHETLANDS
- SIBERIAN CHILLS
- SICILY
- SO WE/I BOUGHT (OR BUILT) A HOUSE IN . . .
- SOJOURNS IN SOUTH ASIA
- India
- Pakistan
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- SPAIN
- STAR TREKKERS
- SWEDE(N), ISN'T IT?
- TEXAS TWO-STEP (AFTER A BOB WILLS SONG)
- THAI TALES
- TIMBUKTU AND BEYOND
- TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: NORTH AND SOUTH
- Arctic
- Antarctic
- TRAVEL TO IMAGINARY PLACES
- TRAVELERS' TALES IN VERSE
- TURKISH DELIGHTS
- Nonfiction
- Fiction
- VENI, VIDI, VENICE
- VERONA
- VIENNA
- VIETNAM
- WALES WELCOMES YOU
- WALK RIGHT IN
- WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
- WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
- WHERE IN THE WORLD DO THESE BOOKS BELONG?
- WY EVER NOT?
- ZAMBIA
- ZIPPING THROUGH ZIMBABWE/ ROAMING RHODESIA
- INDEX
- Copyright Page
