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Pearl, Nancy.

Book lust to go : recommended reading for travelers, vagabonds, and dreamers / Nancy Pearl.

Seattle : Sasquatch Books, [2010]

[Jackson, Tennessee] : Distributed by PGW/Perseus, [2010]

©2010.

xviii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm

Includes both nonfiction and fiction reading recommendations for armchair or "real" travelers. This librarian famous for reader's advisory covers places as diverse as Afghanistan, Appalachia, Arizona, Baltimore, Boston, Burma, Congo, Corfu, Detroit, England, Finland, the Galapagos, Guernica, Hawaii, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Korea, Law Vegas, Los Angeles, Maine, Malaysia, Martha's Vineyard, Miami, Nebraska, New York City, New Orleans, Niagara Falls, Norway, Ohio, Parma, Patagonia, Peru, Philadelphia, Poland, Provence, the Sahara, San Francisco, Siberia, Spain, Texas, Vienna, Vietnam, Wales, and many other real and imaginary places.

Travel -- Bibliography.

Setting (Literature) -- Bibliography.

Best books.

Books and reading.

Bibliographies.

Includes both nonfiction and fiction reading recommendations for armchair or "real" travelers. This librarian famous for reader's advisory covers places as diverse as Afghanistan, Appalachia, Arizona, Baltimore, Boston, Burma, Congo, Corfu, Detroit, England, Finland, the Galapagos, Guernica, Hawaii, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Korea, Law Vegas, Los Angeles, Maine, Malaysia, Martha's Vineyard, Miami, Nebraska, New York City, New Orleans, Niagara Falls, Norway, Ohio, Parma, Patagonia, Peru, Philadelphia, Poland, Provence, the Sahara, San Francisco, Siberia, Spain, Texas, Vienna, Vietnam, Wales, and many other real and imaginary places.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- A is for adventure -- Afghanistan : graveyard of empires -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Norway : the land of the midnight sun -- Oceania, or miles of isles -- Ohioana -- Oxford -- 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 -- South Africa -- 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 -- Travel to imaginary places -- Travelers' tales in verse -- Turkish delights -- 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.

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