New travel books: “Around the World in 50 Years”
"Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth" Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, $26.99 He has been an editor, writer, advertising executive, lobbyist, lawyer and...
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Travel books cover Scottish Highlands and artists of the French Riviera
"Scottish Highlands: A Cultural History" Interlink Books, $15 The Scottish Highlands has been a travel destination for centuries. As far as back as 1773, English literary icon Samuel Johnson, accompanied...
New travel books: From great places to walk to where to go in San Francisco
"1,001 Walks You Must Take Before You Die: Country Hikes, Heritage Trails, Coastal Strolls, Mountain Paths, City Walks" Universe Publishing, $36.95 We all do it; depending on where we live,...
‘Five Nights in Paris’ is a sharp-eyed look at the City of Light
"Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light" HarperPerennial, $14.99 They have left traces everywhere, not only Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Stein but also the other names...
Photo book looks at the golden age of road trips
Road Trip: Roadside America from Custard's Last Stand to the Wigwam Restaurant Universe, $29.95 Who doesn't like a road trip? Architectural historian Richard Longstreth likes road trips and architecture. "Road...
‘Discovering Vintage Boston’ highlights the good old spots
"Discovering Vintage Boston" Globe Pequot/Rowman & Littlefield, $16.95 Boston is a very old city, especially by American standards. Founded in 1630 by Puritans, it remains the quintessential New England city...
Finding the fact and fiction in all those myths about the French
"They Eat Horses, Don't They? The Truth about the French" Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, $26.99 How do the French do it? How do they get away with their envious...
Getting inside 30 places around the globe
"Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness" Trinity University Press, $25.95 It's sort of an encyclopedia and sort of isn't. It's really an anthology disguised as an encyclopedia. But no matter what...
Plumbing the depths of Italy’s gifts to the world
"The Italians" Viking, $28.95 What has Italy given the world? For starters, there are the painters and sculptors: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian, Caravaggio. But let's not forget the architects....
Those quirky, ‘nearly perfect’ Scandinavians
"The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia" Picador, $26 Is any country perfect? Based on media reports and various academic studies, the Scandinavian countries have...