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    Author: Jeff Alt
    Publisher: Dreams Shared Publications, LLC
    ISBN: 978-0-9679482-3-2

    A Unique Kind Of Adventure Story


    Author:  Bonnie McGee
    ISBN:  9780615250595
    Publisher:  Skylark Publications

    This book is recommended for readers who enjoy travel books as well as for those interested in hearing about reaching out and grabbing the dream of another life.  Those who indulge will come away inspired and refreshed.  This is a gorgeous book and one that is highly recommended



    Author: Susan Zaraysky
    Publisher: Kaleidomundi
    ISBN: 978-0-9820189-8-9

    As a world traveler with multilingual skills that most of us could only imagine, Ms Zaraysky has packed a lifetime of travel experience into this book

    Author:  Nola Lee Kelsey
    Publisher:  Dog’s Eye View Media
    ISBN:  978-0-9802323-6-3

    Dedicated to ‘possibilities,’ The Voluntary Traveler: Adventures from the Road Best Traveled,  should be a coffee-stained, dog-eared book for anyone contemplating taking a trip on the open road, or for arm-chaired travelers seeking a great read about living a life in an exotic locale


    Author: Richard Starks & Miriam Murcutt,
    Publisher: Haus Publishing, London, 2009
    ISBN: 978-1-906598-32-7

    The book captures the futility of trying to recreate historical explorations in an age when travelers collect country stamps in passports and when every spec of land can be surveyed using Google Earth on one’s home computer




    Author: Susan van Allen
    Publisher: Travelers’ Tales
    ISBN:10: 193236165
    ISBN-13: 978-1932361650



    Author:Trish Clark
    Publisher: Hidden Spring
    ISBN: 978-1587680533

    Contemplating the Contemplative: A Guide Book to Accommodation in the Religious Houses of Europe



    Author: Mark Richards
    Publisher: Cicerone
    ISBN: 978-1-85284-542-1

    A splendid Cicerone guide which aims to deliver and this one certainly has. One thing is for sure: the Southern fells are worth visiting, climbing and admiring!


    Author: G.G. Husak
    ISBN: 978-1-4196-8289-6
    Publisher: Booksurge Publishing

     A Leisurely Walk Through Italy



    Author: Susan Pohlman
    Publisher: Guideposts
    ISBN:  978-0-8249-4780-4

    A very intriguing and enjoyable travel memoir which will surprise those of you who always thought you hated travel books


    Author: Patricia and Walter Wells
    Publisher: Harper Perennial
    ISBN: 978-0-06-089858-8

     How many of us have dreamed of chucking it all and moving to an exotic local?  Most of us have and I must admit, my dream was Paris.




    Author: Ann von Lossberg
    Publisher: iUniverse
    ISBN: 978-1-440-10520-3

    Ann von Lossberg'snarration of the Odyssey is self-directed, but definitely not self-absorbed.


    Authors: Alison Culliford and Nan McElroy
    Publishers: Beagle Bay, Inc., Reno, NV
    ISBN: 978-1-885436-40-5


    I try to keep my reviews impersonal, but this book is so connected to my own experience I have to include my personal thoughts on France: Instructions for Use.


    Author: Daniel Kalder
    ISBN: 978-1-59020-226-5
    Publisher: Overlook Press


    Strange Telescopes chronicles Kalder's journeys through post-perestroika Russia, Siberia and the Ukraine in search of four  people who  view the world 'through strange telescopes' - individuals that have created alternate realities for themselves.





    Author: Glenn Pearsall
    ISBN: 978-1-886166-20-2
    Publisher: Pyramid Publishing 2008 for Johnsburg Historical Society

    In Echoes in These Mountains, Glenn Pearsall has tackled the herculean task of capturing the history of fifty-five historic sites in the town of Johnsburg, NY.




    Author: Joan Rattner Heilman

    ISBN: 978-0-07-159884-2: 0-07-159884-7

    Publisher: McGraw Hill 

    Although this book may be a mere two hundred and eight two pages it is huge in accomplishment.



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