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"Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2011: The Best Trends, Destinations, Journeys & Experiences for the Upcoming Year" Lonely Planet, $14.99 Lonely Planet staff, bloggers and Tweeters have come up with...
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"A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World" Lonely Planet, $14.99 Food and travel are inseparable and indeed for many travelers offer some of the most indelible memories of...
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"Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America" Walker, $26 In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a road trip across America with his French poodle, Charley. It was,...
Travel books worth a look
"Drives of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Most Spectacular Trips" National Geographic, $40 In this inspiring, photo-rich coffee-table book, the National Geographic staff has decided to divide the globe...
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"The English Lakes: A History" Bloomsbury, $45 For more than 200 years, the Lake District in northern England has been a tourist attraction. More than 8 million visitors come every...
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Gay travel is not what it used to be. Just as more and more communities across the country — indeed throughout the world — are becoming more welcoming of gay...
New travel books
"Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation" Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, $25.99 Foreign correspondent Martin Fletcher's "Walking Israel" is a travelogue and a memoir. Because...
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"Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas & Mexico" Texas A&M University Press, $45 Beginning in Port Arthur, Texas, and ending in Veracruz, this coffee-table...
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"The Sheikh's Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World" Soft Skull Press, $15.95 A book on the Middle East that boasts a combination of insightfulness, intellectual...
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"The Titanic Awards: Celebrating the Worst in Travel" Perigee, $13.95 In this oxymoron of a book, Doug Lansky celebrates "spectacular underachievements" in the travel industry. In order to be considered,...