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New books on cheap travel and the roots of Los Angeles

August 23, 2019 at 11:45 a.m.

'How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter' Perigee, $15 Forget the fancy tours, the five-star hotels, the wallet-robbing meals, the mind-boggling airline tickets. Matt...

New travel books on Colombia, North Korea

August 23, 2019 at 11:41 a.m.

'Colombia' Avalon, $19.99 Travelers are rediscovering Colombia after the country's decades under a cloud of drug trafficking and guerrilla activity. What to do and where to go? For a start,...

"Fire Bone! A Maverick Guide to a Life in Journalism"

Travel writers’ books range from going nowhere to going everywhere

August 23, 2019 at 11:37 a.m.

'The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere' TED Books/Simon & Schuster, $14.99 The whole point of travel is to go somewhere, to do something. Pico Iyer, among the best...

"A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Heaven"
Columbia University Press, $26.95

New travel books: Coney Island, sea creatures

August 23, 2019 at 11:34 a.m.

"A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Heaven" Columbia University Press, $26.95 As the great poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti once suggested, Coney Island is a state of mind. But it...

Travel books: A century of Beverly Hills; a look at Myanmar

August 23, 2019 at 11:28 a.m.

"Beverly Hills: The First 100 Years" Rizzoli, $100 It seems only right that a book celebrating Beverly Hills' centennial anniversary costs $100. The price matches the heft and ambition of...

From fascinating historical details of London to the nitty-gritty of Disney World, travel books have it

August 23, 2019 at 11:24 a.m.

"National Geographic London Book of Lists: The City's Best, Worst, Oldest, Greatest, & Quirkiest" National Geographic, $19.95 London is endlessly fascinating, a city so iconic that even if people have...

"The Last Fisherman: Witness to the Endangered Oceans" looks at the beauty and the tragedy.

Photographer-author dives into the beauty and the tragedy of the world’s oceans

May 11, 2019 at 3:12 p.m.

"The Last Fisherman: Witness to the Endangered Oceans" Abbeville Press, $49.95 Jeffrey L. Rotman is an author, but he is better known for his efforts as an underwater photographer. His...

‘America’s Great Hiking Trails’ is a beautiful book with great tips

May 11, 2019 at 3:09 p.m.

"America's Great Hiking Trails" Rizzoli, $50 What makes a hiking trail "great?" What makes it iconic? Author Karen Berger explores America's great hiking trails in this photo-rich coffee-table book. The...

How to get fluent fast

May 11, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

"Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It" Harmony, $16 Learning a language is like fencing, writes Gabriel Wyner. "Stabbing friends with pointy metal objects resembles...

Spotlight on Santa Fe; recalling old Chicago

May 11, 2019 at 2:41 p.m.

"Santa Fe" (Museum of New Mexico Press, $39.95) Santa Fe, N.M., founded in 1610, is unique among cities in the United States. No other city looks like Santa Fe. Here...

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