THE ARMCHAIR TRAVELER

Is $4.00 a gallon of gas going to keep you

off the highways this summer?

Have the airlines’ woes become yours?

Let the Manchester Public Library help!

Here is a collection of recent travel books that

will take you where your car won’t—and

the price is right!

 

Riding With Strangers: a hitchhiker’s journey

Elijah Wald (917.304)

The Places In Between

Rory Stewart (915.8104)

American Vertigo: traveling America in the footsteps of Tocqueville

Bernard Henri Levy (917.304)

Driver: six weeks in an eighteen-wheeler

Phillip Wilson (B Wilson)

Temple Stream: a rural odyssey

Bill Roorbach (974.172)

Where God Was Born: a journey by land to the roots of religion

Bruce Feiler (200.956)

At the Mercy of the River: an exploration of the last African wilderness

Peter Stark (916.799)

Four Corners: a journey into the heart of Papua, New Guina

Kira Salak (910.4)

Jaywalking with the Irish

David Monagan (914.1504)

Man Bites Log: the unlikely adventures of a city guy in the woods

Max Alexander (B Alexander)

Too Much Tuscan Sun: confessions of a Chianti tour guide

Dario Castagno (945.5)

Seasons in Basilicata: a year in a southern Italian hill village

David Yeadon (945.772)

Travels on My Elephant

Mark Shand (915.404)

The Geography of Bliss: one grump’s search for the happiest place in the world

Eric Weiner (910.4)

No Reservations: around the world on an empty stomach

Anthony Bourdain (641.013)

Searching for Crusoe: a journey among the last real islands

Thurston Clarke (910.4)

Fresh Air Fiend: travel writings

1985 –2000

Paul Theroux (910.4)

The Road to Oxiana

Robert Byron (915.604)

Golden Earth: travels in Burma

Norman Lewis (915.91)

Along the Ganges

Ilija Trojanow (915.41)

China Road: a journey into the future of a rising power

Rob Gifford (915.06)

Spain From a Backpack

ed. by Mark Pearson (914.604)

River Town: two years on the Yangtze

Peter Hessler (915.138)

Mirrors of the Unseen: journeys in Iran

Jason Elliot (915.504)

Forest Under My Fingernails: reflections and encounters on the Long Trail

Walt McLauglin (917.43)

A Blistered Kind of Love: one couple’s

trial by trail

Angela & Duffy Ballard (917.9)

My ‘dam Life: three years in Holland

Sean Condon (914.92)

House in Corfu: a family’s sojourn in Greece

Emma Tennant (949.55)

Ultimate Journey: retracing the path of an ancient Buddist monk who crossed Asia in search of enlightenment

Richard Bernstein (294.392)

The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: close encounters with strangers

Eric Hansen ((910.41)

Eat, Pray, Love: one woman’s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia

Elizabeth Gilbert (B Gilbert)

The Naked Tourist: in search of adventure and beauty in the age of the airport mall

Lawrence Osborne (910.4092)

The Ice Cave: a woman’s adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic

Lucy Jane Bledsoe ((910.4092)

07/2008