{"id":322,"date":"2010-05-13T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chloeneill.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2010-05-13T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T02:04:00","slug":"travel-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Travel Reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I have a little time to read, I love to read travelogues.  I&#8217;m about to finish the most recent (curmudgeonly, caustic) Paul Theroux installment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0618418873\">Ghost Train to the Eastern Star<\/a>,* &#8211;which is unfortunately the last (non-fiction) Theroux on my list. So, it was time to find some new travel writers. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_X4u7DRdJ1w4\/S-yzCN53i5I\/AAAAAAAAAss\/3retVFctrgQ\/s1600\/ghost_train_to_the_eastern_star_475h.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_X4u7DRdJ1w4\/S-yzCN53i5I\/AAAAAAAAAss\/3retVFctrgQ\/s320\/ghost_train_to_the_eastern_star_475h.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470944498021796754\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px; \" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I perused the web looking for good travel books, and came across a few lists (which I have now printed and will probably, in truegeek style, highlight and check-off), which I thought I&#8217;d share. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>FYI, while the iPad&#8217;s iBookstore is still a little slim on titles for my taste, many of these books are in the public domain (including those by Mark Twain), so they&#8217;re available at Project Gutenberg. Thus, you may be able to find them for free on Amazon or in the iBookstore.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Happy reading! <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. Conde Nast&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concierge.com\/cntraveler\/articles\/11341\">86 Greatest Travel Books of All Time<\/a><\/div>\n<div>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/traveler.nationalgeographic.com\/travel-books\/intro-text\">National Geographic Ultimate Travel Library<\/a><\/div>\n<div>3. Wall Street Journal &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704304504574610573107686220.html\">Five Best Books on Travel<\/a><\/div>\n<div>4. Amazon Listmania! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Best-Travelogues\/lm\/42A5668Z64NI\">Best Travelogues<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:small;\">* &#8211; I enjoy reading Theroux, although he&#8217;s not for the faint of heart. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/25\/arts\/25iht-bookmon.1.15548517.html\">The New York Times<\/a> called GTTTES &#8220;a book defined and driven by egotism,&#8221; among other things. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I have a little time to read, I love to read travelogues. I&#8217;m about to finish the most recent (curmudgeonly, caustic) Paul Theroux installment, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star,* &#8211;which is unfortunately the last (non-fiction) Theroux on my list. So, it was time to find some new travel writers. I perused the web<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=322\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[363,360],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}