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- One of the coolest travel journals
- Gorgeous Design, Great Construction, Good for More Than Traveling
- cutest travel journal you'll ever find
- Gorgeous journal
- highly recommended - clever, vivid travel oriented-graphic design
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Wanderlust Travel Journal
Troy M. Litten
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Book Description
Travel encompasses more than arriving in a new place -- it's about the view through an airplane window, the colors of the phone booths, the conversations with strangers, and the unique mementos collected along the way. In this journal, you'll find evocative travel images plus plenty of room to record your experiences and space to paste in ticket stubs, matchbooks, and postcards. The durable vinyl sleeve will withstand time and weather.
Customer Reviews:
One of the coolest travel journals.......2007-01-03
I fell in love with the Wanderlust Travel Journal the first time I picked it up. Alongside the blank areas for writing, it has cool travel images, graphics and little nick nacks that give it lots of character. For those of you who are looking to give them as gifts (or if you just want one for yourself like me...) this book is the perfect thing! You'll want to fill it up with all of your travel stories!!
Gorgeous Design, Great Construction, Good for More Than Traveling.......2006-09-30
This is a gorgeous blank book. Approximately 250 pages long and filled with travel-related images that are strategically placed not to interfere with writing, the WANDERLUST TRAVEL JOURNAL is perfectly suited to -- but not at all limited to -- vacation notes.
Though I love to travel to exotic places and would happily use this blank book to record my thoughts on trips, I never do. Instead I use it at work in every day life to record my To Do lists.
Why? It's attractive enough to pull out at a meeting. The paper is high-quality and as a result fun to write on. And it includes a plastic folder that protects the cover and provides two pockets in which to slip tickets, photos, invitations, etc.
I have purchased approximately ten WANDERLUST TRAVEL JOURNALS over the last year and love they way they can be stored so attractively on a book shelf for later consultation to find a phone number, or the name of a contact I made in the past.
I highly recommend WANDERLUST TRAVEL JOURNAL for visual people on the go, who need to keep notes -- regardless of whether on vacation or just in everyday life.
-- Regina McMenamin
cutest travel journal you'll ever find.......2006-06-29
Just used this for a trip to Europe and absolutely loved it! Loved the design and the little details added to the pages, most of which are blank so that you can write, sketch, do whatever you want to capture the moment. And there's just enough pictures/quotes on the pages to prevent it from being a plain white notebook. The only thing is that it's not spiral bound, but is still surprisingly easy to write on when even when you don't have a flat surface handy. Definitely met my expectations!
Gorgeous journal.......2005-11-28
I bought this journal in Edmonton 8 months before I was to take a trip to Europe, and I was looking forward to using just it, nevermind the entire trip! It's full of unique photos, pictures, maps, and translations of basic phrases in about a dozen languages. It is much more interesting to write in a book full of pictures that reflect what you're doing, than staring at lines. I'd definitely recommend this journal to anyone with wanderlust.
highly recommended - clever, vivid travel oriented-graphic design.......2005-08-03
Sure, you could buy a travel journal that was a simple set of ruled pages, but, frankly, that kind of product doesn't even merit being sold on Amazon. My impression is that the Wanderlust stuff (I think there are books, journals and some notecards that I've seen) is for people who appreciate good graphic design and the author's (Litten) unique sense of humor. And, even more importantly for those of us that travel a lot, I always get comments from people - no matter where I am - whenever I pull out the journal. People really want to know "what that is".
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This inspirational handbook offers encouragement, travel-tested information and lighthearted anecdotes to help you travel safely and comfortably, all while having the time of your life. Includes ideas for creating your own dream journey, listings for more than 150 essential websites, personal anecdotes and advice from more than 45 women, suggestions for traveling alone without feeling lonely and up-to-date guidance on using the latest technology to enhance your travels.
Customer Reviews:
Highly recommended.......2007-08-27
I am a female who often travels solo. I loved reading Beth Whitman's book - it offers a lot of resources and advice for women and I recommend it for anyone who is thinking of traveling alone. I wish I had read this when I went on my first solo trip several years ago! I also like the little excerpts in the book of fellow stories by women travelers.
After reading this book, it inspired me to want to go on another solo trip. I'm currently planning it right now ;) Thanks, Beth!!!
Inspiring.......2007-05-14
Beth Whitman is thorough. She goes into detail about things that may not have ever crossed the would-be solo traveler's mind. This book should be required reading for all college students.
This book is for all who love to travel, men and women alike.......2007-03-02
I found Wanderlust and Lipstick to be an excellent resource for anyone who travels (or might be thinking of traveling, wants to travel more, is nervous about traveling, etc.). While it's obviously geared toward women traveling on their own, I think the benefits from this book are more widespread. I believe people that are already traveling the world as well as those who have never ventured outside of their hometown can appreciate and learn from this book. The best part about this book is the way Beth seamlessly weaves all of her personal, heartfelt stories (as well as those from other women she interviewed for the book) into the content of each chapter. Every one of us can relate to at least one of those stories (her feelings, thoughts, fears) as well as the theme of each of her chapters. The tone is very direct but is always on point with lots of witty remarks and humorous anecdotes. In fact, she emphasizes over and over the importance of getting beyond all of the never-ending reasons/excuses we all make for ourselves for not traveling more than we do. Beth notes that everyone can make their travel dreams come true, regardless of your individual situations(marital status, budget, job, etc.) Another invaluable part of the book is the extensive list of useful websites referenced throughout the book. This is a "must read" for anyone with a passion for travel.
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The ability to walk on two legs over long distances distinguishes Homo sapiens from other primates, and indeed from every other species on earth. That ability has also yielded some of the best creative work of our species: the lyrical ballads of the English romantic poets, composed on long walks over hill and dale; the speculations of the peripatetic philosophers; the meditations of footloose Chinese and Japanese poets; the exhortations of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
Rebecca Solnit, a thoughtful writer and spirited walker, takes her readers on a leisurely journey through the prehistory, history, and natural history of bipedal motion. Walking, she observes, affords its practitioners an immediate reward--the ability to observe the world at a relaxed gait, one that allows us to take in sights, sounds, and smells that we might otherwise pass by. It provides a vehicle for much-needed solitude and private thought. For the health-minded, walking affords a low-impact and usually pleasant way of shedding a few pounds and stretching a few muscles. It is an essential part of the human adventure--and one that has, until now, been too little documented.
Written in a time when landscapes and cities alike are designed to accommodate automobiles and not pedestrians, Solnit's extraordinary book is an enticement to lace up shoes and set out on an aimless, meditative stroll of one's own. --Gregory McNamee
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Drawing together many histories-of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores-Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction-from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja-finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
Customer Reviews:
A personal and erudite survey of three centuries of walking.......2007-03-17
Solnit's "history of walking" is a surprising excursion in a vast and unsystematised subject area. Indeed, like eating and playing, walking is one of these emblematic human activities that are invested with wildly different cultural meanings. I picked up the book because I am an avid walker and mountaineer and, as I learned, an adherent to the British walking tour ethos. For me there is something fundamentally cleansing, wholesome and right about spending time in the great outdoors. However, this smug romanticism, this adhering to an "established religion for the middle class" is sternly criticised by the author of this book.
For Solnit walking is a quintessentially political activity. And the politics play out at different levels. First, walking is a bulwark against the erosion of the mind by the incessant contemporary rethoric of efficiency and functionality. The walker exposes herself to the accidental, the unexpected, the random and unscreened, and by doing so rebels against the speed and alienation endemic in our postindustrial world. Second, walking is also a reclamation of a physical and public space that is increasingly suburbanised and privatised. Solnit discusses how the early 20th century city was an arena for aesthetic experimentation and political agitation. Walkers and flaneurs, starting with De Quincey in London and Baudelaire in Paris, experimented with an urban underground culture suffused with eroticism and desire. Protest marchers all over the world and throughout the ages have relied on the democratic functions of the street to make their voices heard. Today, the scope for these kinds of trespasses are increasingly rare due to encroaching private property rights and a soulless, panoptic urban architecture. Hence, thus Solnit, we need to revitalise a counterculture to walk in resistance to the post-industrial and post-modern loss of space, time and embodiment. Last and perhaps not least, walking is and will remain the domain of the amateur. It is one of these few areas of human activity where a hierarchy based on expertise makes very little sense. Everyone, barring physical disabilities, is in principle able to be an expert walker.
Beyond the political, there is also a phenomenological dimension to walking which is quite deftly described by Solnit as an "alignment between mind, body and the world". Whoever has spent a couple of days on the trail knows that once the rhythm has been established, one becomes much more alert to minute variations in sensory input (smell, colour, temperatur). Meanwhile, the mind starts to wander much more freely. Solnit writes: "This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it."
Solnit's smart and cogent survey of 3 centuries of walking is appropriately brought into relief by her supple and subtle prose which is a real pleasure to read. Her writing is warmly personal - with a tone that modulates unexpectedly between stridency and vulnerability - as well as erudite. There is none of the pedantic selfconsciousness that spoils the discourse of many academic writers and popularisers alike. After "Wanderlust" I went on to read Solnit's "Field guide to getting lost" which, although not in the same league, confirms her qualities as an engaging personal voice.
Read this Book, and Go for a Walk.......2006-06-04
Solnit has her flaws. She tends to make a mistake common among critics, that of confounding a powerful metaphor with literal truth. She sometimes over reaches. And I suspect that her research may get some details wrong.
That said, she is intellectually gifted, a good writer, has her heart in the right place, and is always interesting to read.
Read this book, and escape for a while the future that is rushing towards us with an earbud for a phone or Ipod always plugged in. There's great pleasure to be had in a contemplative walk---and in this book.
An excursion into fascinating territory.......2006-01-01
In "Wanderlust" Rebecca Solnit weaves together myriad facets of the human experience to chronicle the role of walking. As can be expected, this is a complex topic, covering not only the details of geographic locale but the sociological and historical context of the subject as well. In this book, Solnit uses walking as both central theme and backdrop, using the topic as a stepping stone to meander onto her ruminations on diverse topics. Her discursions are thought provoking, enlightening and diverse. It is almost as if the author invites you to join her on a walk, sharing with you her insights on human condition. If not for the place, time and gender to which she is born, Solnit comes across as a "Peripatetic" - a wandering philosopher. At the end of the book, one has the feeling of coming home from an excursion wiser and more thoughtful.
Thoughtful and lyrical.......2005-10-28
In Wanderlust, author Rebecca Solnit looks at walking and its role in various historical and cultural contexts. The book isn't meant to be comprehensive, or study walking in all cultures and in all periods of time; as the author herself points out, the book is shaped as a kind of walk itself, a ramble through various topics that have interested her personally.
Wanderlust covers a good variety of areas - pilgrimages, Wordsworth, streetwalkers, labyrinths, disappearing pedestrian space, to name a few - and how the book succeeds is in getting you to think in new ways about the fundamental act of walking and to examine its varying function and significance in (mainly Western) society over the centuries. Solnit even meditates on how walking is linked to thought and memory and how we regard our lives as a spatial narrative, a journey with various milestones.
I thought the book was very interesting and well-written; the language was precise, and especially wonderful were moments where Solnit reflected on her own walks. The prose is both lyrical and absorbing, rich with anecdotes, character sketches, and evocations of place.
A Misnomer.......2003-10-18
"Wanderlust" is a German word meaning "joy of walking". Nowhere in the book could the joy of walking be found. Solnit creates a thin trail that connects walking with philosophy, politics, revolution, sexism, prostitution, and literature. Her disjointed rambles sidestep the topic with dull, uninteresting anecdotes that dissuaded this reader from turning the pages.
But there are pleasant intervals. The most interesting parts of the book are when Solnit writes of her walking experiences. Her first person narratives draw the reader into a lively cadence when she describes her inner-city walks in San Francisco, her pilgrimage to Chimayo and her people-watching jaunt along the Las Vegas Strip.
Solnit is a gifted writer who is extremely fluent. It's unfortunate that she ambled about unrelated activities and chose the experiences and words of others when she could write much more interestingly about her own walks. As an avid walker, I was disappointed with her book.
Book Description
The classic guide for beginning and intermediate cyclists is back—and it’s better than ever. With the latest on bikes, gear, and training techniques and new sections on short tours, and touring abroad, this new edition of The Essential Touring Cyclist promises to appeal to a whole new population of aspiring cyclists. Whether you’re heading out for five hours or five months, this vividly designed, heavily illustrated, and resource-rich guide delivers everything you need.
Customer Reviews:
really helpful.......2007-09-06
I just started this last night, I have road ridden on a mountain bike for years, on a bike that has been refit for me several times, this book is very helpful, I would like to ride more and this will help me try some different bikes. My local bike store is full of nice people,but since I am not a serious rider,and am a short heavy woman, they have little time to help me. this book fill that need.
Bike Book Review.......2007-06-08
Provided the information I needed to get started in Bicycling. It is well written and easy to understand.
Very informative........2007-04-19
This book is a fantastic reference for the cycling enthusiast. It quite thoroughly covers absolutely everything you can think of when it comes to cycling. I highly recommend it.
Great book on the subject.......2007-03-08
Spiffy looking and full of good information. Don't tour without taking a look at this first!
A disapointing bike travel book.......2006-02-25
I had pretty high expectation of this book. Unfortnately I was disapointed. With the exception of the chapter dealing with how to navigate through towns and cities there was nothing that hasn't been written about a thousand times before. Along with the fact that everything was written as though you've never seen a bicycle before. What's up with that!?! It's not totally with out merit if you've never done any distance bicycling. But there are certainly better books out there that cover the same material and in a much more entertaining fashion. I suggest you look else where for your bike touring information.
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Stop, Thief!
One spring day Tasslehoff Burrfoot comes to Solace, accidentally pockets a copper bracelet, and (forcibly) makes the acquaintance of Tanis Half-Elven and Flint Fireforge.
A simple tale. Except that the fate of the entire race of Dargonesti sea elves hangs in the balance.
How does this piece of kender-coveted jewelry lead the companions and a sea elf princess to ally with the phaethons, creatures with wings of flame?
The answer lies with a mysterious mage, a broker of souls, who knows the bracelet's secret and has a hideous plan to rule the Black Robes.
Wanderlust is the second exsciting installment in the
Dragonlance saga Meetings Sextet by Steve Winter and Mary Kirchoff, author of Kendermore and Flint, the King.
Customer Reviews:
Funny Funny Funny.......2007-10-06
If you love Tas read this book because this is Tas at his finest! Its about how Tas meets Flint. Do I really have to say much more? LOL You will be laughing through this whole book. I personally love Tas to death so I had to buy this book. My bf and I both read this book and really enjoyed it.
a classic good novel.......2006-06-25
I read this book about 8 years ago after I finished Chronicles,Legends,and Dragons of Summer Flame.. It was an exciting novel and reaquainted me with the Sea Elves I've missed reading about..Usually anything with tas in it is bound to keep the reader smilign and laughing.. A very well writen book that introduces Tas to Flint and Tanis.. A classic indeed..
Okay book.......2003-03-30
I was surprised that this book held my interest because I have never been a big fan of Kenders. The story is pretty good. It relates the events whereby Tasslehoff Burrfoot joins Flint Fireforge and Tanis Half-Elven in their travels. Flint gets pretty frustrated and nearly kills Tas on many occasions (and rightfully so). Read this book if you enjoyed the Chronicles stories.
Funny, serious, and all together a good book........2003-02-14
I found this book funny, which is more then I can say for most Dragonlance books. So why didn't I rate it 5 stars? Let's just say I've read better. I rate most books 4 stars, with an exceptional few getting 5 stars.
This was about a kender, Tas (again), who stole a bracelet from a dwarf. Oh, Tas's excuse was that Flint had just left the bracelet 'laying around' so Tas was inclined to pick it up and keep it in his care until he saw the dwarf. Anyway, Flint gets the bracelet back, but then the two of them and Tanis half-elven go to the Inn of the Last Home to have a drink, and when the Dwarf and elf leave, Tas finds out that the bracelet just 'happened' to 'fall' into his pocket. He then goes to sleep, and in the morning remembers nothing about the bracelet. He leaves town, and when he's miles away, puts the bracelet on. He then finds it shows the future. Bad things, that is. Tas saves a man from hobgoblins, and then gives the bracelet to him to return to Flint, for the man was going in that direction. Tas then goes on. The farmer, in town, gets robbed, the bracelet included. Then the woman who had Flint make the bracelet comes up and wants her bracelet, and Flint is forced to tell the whole embarrassing story. And then they have to go on a journey; just a little one, to solve a few mysteries, save a squire, castle, and almost the world- nothing much.
Enter Tas!.......2002-11-19
This volume of the DL saga has tas, Flint, and Tanis meeting for the first time... and what stories they will have afterwards!
Flint is approached by a mysterious woman who would like him to craft a bracelet for her. She has very specific instructions (we find out later) as to how this is to be crafted. Needless to say that Tas enters the picture and winds up beginning the quest of a lifetime for Flint and Tanis.
"Creatures" that (to my knowledge) haven't shown up before in DL novels come into play here... especially the firey-winged humanoids, there's an appearance of a hill giant, golems in the form of minotaurs, and we get to know a little of the Sea Elves.
Magic is abundant in this novel, but the action in no way seems hampered by the lack of hack and slash (apparent in most DL). Tas is however more 'crafty' and 'take charge' than I'm used to, though... but he's still portrayed quite well.
All in all, if you like the Heroes of the Lance, or if you're interested in starting Dragonlance (heck, if you're in the mood for a good fantasy)then pick this one up... but remember to get Part 1 of Meetings too.
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Founded by Wally Byam in the 1930s, Airstream became America's premier manufacturer of travel trailers, instantly recognizable by their distinctive design and signature use of aluminum and rivets. WANDERLUST, produced by Airstream to commemorate its 75th anniversary, reveals the fascinating history and highlights of the company from its early days to the present and includes details of the famous Airstream caravans around the world as well as reminiscences from caravaners today. Rare photographs and ephemera from the Airstream archives provide a visual complement to the book's engaging text. Also featured are sections on the trailer's role in film and media, relevance in American culture and lifestyle, and a section on the company today. The Airstream is the camper travelers dream of well before their purchase and its endurance in the market is matched by the fact that 65% of the trailers ever made are still on the road.
Amazon.com Review
"Travel writers are romantics," writes contributor Wendy Belcher, and if there is a common chord to the 40 essays in this collection culled from Salon.com's "Wanderlust" section, it's that a majority of the authors find a certain ardor in exotic locations perceived with curious and eager eyes. Some find it in the literal sense--Maxine Rose Schur reminisces about being passionate and penniless in Paris, Laura Fraser finds the perfect Italian lover to help her forget the husband who's abandoned her, and Simon Winchester charms a Romanian girl with his borrowed Rolls Royce. In pursuit of luxury, Po Bronson loses his Club Med virginity to go activity-surfing at the Turkoise Club. Then there's inspiration--Isabelle Allende travels to the Amazon in the hopes of ending a three-year writing block and David Kohn, well, he gets to sample the best pork ribs at the Memphis World Barbecue Cooking Contest. There are certainly satisfactions in these tales, if only as small vicarious thrills (originally tailored for the Web, they are indeed short and sweet). In truth, however, the real gems take travel and travel writing a little more seriously, or perhaps a little less, with an ever-present eye out for the ironies that plague travelers. Wendy Belcher's insightful essay does not actually dwell on romance but the embarrassment of discovering virtually all travel books about Africa open the same way, including hers. Tim Cahill makes clear the chasm between our lives and others when he experiences reverse culture shock in New York City after living with a remote tribe in South America. And in some truly hilarious reports, Susan Hack goes on a desperate hunt for Tampax in Yemen, Rolf Potts attempts to infiltrate the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, and Douglas Cruickshank takes a decadent blitzkrieg through England ("Indeed, the scene is so excruciatingly exquisite that I've got a good mind to call Mr. Merchant and Mr. Ivory and tell them to get their softly lit Panavision asses up here.") While travel writers may be romantics, thank goodness they can also be great fun. --Lesley Reed
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Simon Winchester in Romania
Isabel Allende in the Amazon
Pico Iyer in Bali
Bill Barich in Italy
Sallie Tisdale in Japan
Carlos Fuentes in Zurich
Po Bronson in the Caribbean
and thirty-four more scintillating and sizzling tales of serendipity and wanderlust.
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Simon Winchester in Romania Isabel Allende in the Amazon Pico Iyer in Bali Bill Barich in Italy Sallie Tisdale in Japan Carlos Fuentes in Zurich Po Bronson in the Caribbean and thirty-four more scintillating and sizzling tales of serendipity and wanderlust.
Customer Reviews:
Travel and Romance.......2004-06-01
Although the theme of Wanderlust is supposed to be the combination of travel and romance, editor Don George has chosen to define romance broadly. So while there are pieces here about conventional romance, such as Laura Fraser's Italian Affair, which she eventually expanded into a full-length book, there are also essays about love of books, of country, of food, and of travel itself. In other words, this is a garden-variety travel anthology. And it's a winner!
As with any anthology, you will enjoy some essays more than others. Some of my favorites were Taras Grescoe's Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder about drinking powerful absinthe in Spain, one of the few countries where it is still legally sold; How to Buy a Turkish Rug by Laura Billings about how the experience of haggling over a carpet was more important than the carpet itself; and Laura Fraser's Italian Affair, in which she actually pulls off the feat of writing the whole thing in the second person and makes it work.
Other outstanding entries include Tampax Nightmares by Susan Hack about finding tampons in countries that frown upon such evil devices; The Last Tourist in Mozambique by Mary Roach, who does yoga with the president; and Lisa Michaels's The Man Who Loved Books in Turkey about packing books for the journey and what happens to the books you leave behind.
I love to read anthologies, especially travel anthologies. You get to read some old favorites, read new pieces by authors you like, and discover new writers. Don George is always dependable as editor. In addition to this collection, try his A House Somewhere and The Kindness of Strangers.
overloaded on European spots.......2002-09-19
No doubt this is a great compilation but too much on European destinations. Even so anything by Salon.com is going to be first-rate it's just disappointing the focus was not more on the Third World as there's always too much on Europe in this field anyway.
great literary traveling.......2001-10-09
A fantastic book from a fantastic website. The stories from Europe seem strongest, including Bill Barich in Italy, Maxine Rose Schur in France, and Simon Winchester in Romania, but Wanderlust covers the entire globe, from 1st world to 3rd world, from the luxury of club med to the drug-fueled violence of Columbia.
While some stories lag behind, as should be expected with 40+ tales, there is certain to be something for everyone. One reviewer found Barry Yeoman's piece about lonliness in Spain and Karl Greenfeld struggle to stay sober in Thailand as two of the worst, but I would highlight the same pieces as two of my favorites.
For any wayward traveler forced to take a break from the road, salon.com's Wanderlust makes for a great escape.
GHOST STORY TERROR!.......2001-09-03
Travel books are the only books I make time to read these days and I read about 30 of them a year. I've just finished this one and have put it on my top ten list. I used to read Wanderlust in salon all the time and was sad to see it go. I was thrilled as hell to see an anthology of the best of Wanderlust. Pico Iyer and Laurie Gough are my favorite in this collection. I don't think I'll be able to sleep for a week after Laurie Gough's ghost story in Greece. The question now is, should I go to Naxos to find out if her story's true?
Joe Haschka is right on.......2001-04-25
I finished Wanderlust yesterday, and in reading Joe Haschka's review, he picked out both my favorite essays in this collection and the ones I found insufferable. There were several essays I thought were very good, and several that I wondered why they made it into the collection. I also didn't finish the essay on Africa travel writing-it read more like a second-grade college paper than a travel essay.
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Wanderlust is the story of Audrey Driscoll. Orphaned young, Audrey has grown up caring for her eccentric millionaire grandfather and her demanding younger sister, Annabelle, who assume she will always be there for them. Sheltered yet restless, responsible beyond her years yet hungering for experience, Audrey is hopelessly bound until she herself makes the daring decision to leave. As the 1930s unfold, alone, camera in hand, she will shock friends and outrage family as she plunges headlong into the wider world.
Crossing the Atlantic aboard the luxurious Queen Mary, Audrey meets James and Violet Hawthorne, who will draw her into a sophisticated circle of artists and expatriates. And it is they who will introduce her to Charles Parker-Scott, in who Audrey will come to recognize a twin soul, a man propelled by relentless curiosity and driven by conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. Together they will spend an exquisite summer at Cap d'Antibes, then board the Orient Express on an adventure that will carry them to a remote outpost in China. But at the farthest reaches of this journey Aubrey must choose again. Japan has attacked China. Charles knows he must return to Europe at once. But Audrey becomes involved with a besieged orphanage and decides to remain in China without Charles, caring for the abandoned children until help arrives.
In time Audrey will return to America with a daughter of her own. While she must come home to San Francisco to confront a world irrevocably changed by time, she finds she cannot stay. From prewar Germany to London during the Blitz, from a wrenching reunion with Charles to a war zone in North Africa, again and again she must choose between the dictates of her conscience and the yearnings of her heart. For Audrey Driscoll and the men and women whose lives touch hers, wanderlust is the inescapable element. Born at a time when women were expected to stay close to home and fulfill traditional roles, Audrey is compelled to follow the thread of events that will destroy the complacency of the past and shape the future. From Europe to China, from San Francisco to North Africa, she is irresistibly drawn into a man's world of conflict, discovery, and danger.
In a vivid novel of breathtaking scope, Danielle Steel has once again surpassed herself in creating an unforgettable tale of men and women caught in the tides of personal drama and historic event.
Wanderlust is Danielle Steel's finest journey.
Customer Reviews:
A true classic!.......2005-11-05
This was actually the first Daniel Steele book I ever read. It was wonderful the story so well developed and the characters so full of life. In fact I have now read this book at least 3 times maybe even 4, truly a classic. Everyone should have this on their shelf to read when you get tired of just seeing words on a page that take you nowhere.
Loved Audrey!.......2005-09-07
Audry is SUCH a great character! Her love of adventure and for her man, but her loyalty to her family is what really pulled the story together. Very enjoyable book!
Great novel........2002-07-28
I have read many of Danielle Steel's books. This has to be one of her best. It is about a young woman named Audrey who has been caretaker to her grandfather and younger sister. Then, she has this need to do some traveling, and see the world. She does so, first going to New York City (she lived in San Francisco). She meets two people named James and Violet, and she becomes a travel companion for the two. In England, she meets Charles, whom becomes her one true love, and they travel the world together, and no matter what threatens to break them up, they never give up on each other.
This is not as formulaic as many of Danielle Steel novels, but it is still wonderful and one of her best.
LOVED IT.......2002-04-25
This book is so cool...it takes you so many places, you most likely have never been to. It's so fun to put yourself in this characters shoes & see what it's like. I love to read about countries I haven't been to...classic DS
One of my favourites.......2002-03-30
I have been reading Danielle Steel for over 15 years and own all her books and this is one of my favourites - one I can read over and over again and still enjoy the story.
I was transported back to the 1930's and admired the bravery of Audrey travelling to China when it was probably a dangerous (and not "proper") for a young single woman to do so. This one made me laugh, cry and wish that all would go well for Audrey.
If you are a Danielle Steel fan you will love this one. Her earlier novels (like this one) are so much better than her later books. If you are new to Danielle Steel - this one is highly recommended. Enjoy!
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Wanderlust
Troy M. Litten
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Book Description
A wordless evocation of place, Wanderlust captures the funny, mundane, and unexpectedly beautiful aspects of traveling the world with a sense of discovery and wonder. Litten's photographs -- over 400 of them -- celebrate the too-often-overlooked moments between destinations that are every bit a part of the pleasure of travel. Here are Japanese transit lockers decorated with cherry blossoms, exuberant London postcard racks, hand-painted Indian signs, Bangkok night market displays, cheap hotel decor in Buenos Aires, feather duster salesmen in Rio, and mannequin faces in Istanbul. As exquisitely designed as Litten's successful Wanderlust Gift line, this visually adventurous book delivers a globe-hopping trip full of sensual delights for both armchair and insatiable world travelers.
Customer Reviews:
A lovely survey of travel experience and world wonders.......2004-08-07
Troy Litten's Wanderlust could as easily have been featured in our travel section, but is highlighted here for its fine art applications as well. A small pocket-sized paperwork offers Litten's paintings of travel topics and destinations, from hotel beds and bathtubs to market holdings and odd signs and scenes. A lovely survey of travel experience and world wonders evolves for the armchair wanna-be.
Book Description
From the editor of the award-winning and bestselling anthology Brown Sugar comes a sultry and sophisticated new collection of erotic adventures from around the world
More than an erotic travelogue, these edgy, atmospheric and sexually charged stories explore what new desires and personas are unlocked while one is away from home, each one more wildly exotic and adventurous than the next. Contemporary, enlightening, and deeply sensual, these stories take you to new lovers, trysts, and rendezvous around the globe, from the streets of Paris, wet with rain, to the sun-kissed beaches of Jamaica, from the hidden verandas of the Mediterranean to the forbidden banks of the Nile.
Praise for Brown Sugar
“Audaciously refreshing.”—Essence
“As smart as it is sexy.”—Honey
“Particularly intelligent, varied, and sexy.” —Publishers Weekly
Customer Reviews:
Transported Away.......2007-02-23
This book is the first erotic fiction book I've ever purchased. I'm not writer so I can't comment on writing styles. I did enjoy the book very much! It inspires me to travel and see other places and experience other cultures.
Carol Taylor Does it Again.......2006-01-24
A great collection of travel stories (erotic travel stories) by some of today's top writers and quite a few that are new to me, but whose books I will be looking forward to reading. I have been traveling a good deal lately to some of the places mentioned in the book, especially in Central America (Belize, Honduras, Mexico, Suriname, Italy, England--okay this is not Central America), and this collection serves up those locations deliciously. I love that Carol Taylor continues to focus on "story" rather than Big names in her books. She seeks out the raw heat and it steams up the pages. Great Job once again. One story threw me for a loop, the Nalo Hopkins story. At first I was not sure whether it was a man or woman talking. That was a very kinky story. Preston L. Allen's story threw me for another loop. The ending of that one was quite a surprise and quite satisfying (in a humorous way).
Happy Travels..........2005-12-31
Carol Taylor has compiled an anthology with 14 erotic short stories that combine eroticism and exotic travel locations as background to some sensual adventures. The collection includes stories from well-known authors such as Nina Foxx, Sandra Kitt, Jervey Tervalon, Brandon Massey and Tracy Price-Thompson. Also, authors such as Preston Allen and Sandra Jackson-Opoku have also contributed pieces to Taylor's Brown Sugar series. In WANDERLUST, Taylor chose all the authors presented, and each story is unique in its own rights.
Nina Foxx's "The Rule of One Thousand", has readers on a cruise with a young woman who has recently broken up with her boyfriend and finds not only the locales of Honduras and Belize hot and steamy so is her mystery lover, Oba. In Sandra Kitt's "The Fixer", Italy is the location but the man who seems to have fixed her troubled circumstances will forever ingratiate Italy to the heroine. Brandon Massey was able to turn an erotic encounter into a scary eye-opening experience in "La Segua". Tracy Price-Thompson's "Hawaii Five-Oh", had a vacationing young attorney learning how friendly Hawaiians could really be. One of my favorites is Preston L. Allen's story, "Southernmost Triangle", about a man who is caught in a love triangle and the twist at the end had me gasping because I never saw it coming. It is set in the Florida Keys.
Carol Taylor always seems to bring together a group of writers who have no qualms about sexuality but know how to weave a story within each tale. I enjoyed savoring the stories because they are so well written with beautiful descriptions so you could enjoy each exotic destination. The stories are sexy, eloquent and sensual. The myth about inhibitions being lost when on vacation or traveling seems to be true within WANDERLUST. Carol Taylor had me wanting to pack my bags just for the expectation of erotic bliss awaiting me. This is a well-assembled collection of erotic travel tales with stories any reader could enjoy.
Reviewed by Cashana Seals
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