Tag: Guidebooks

I Don’t Want to Travel with a Guidebook. What Do You Think About Traveling With an Atlas?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

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Stephanie Elizondo Griest: ‘100 Places Every Woman Should Go’

The writer wants to inspire women to set out on their own sola adventures. Jim Benning asks her about the best and worst destinations for women travelers -- and the use of "male repellent."

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A Spook’s Planet: “The World Factbook”

The CIA's "The World Factbook" isn't just a treasure trove of curiosities. Frank Bures writes that it just may be the mother of all guidebooks.

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A Direct Impression

A Direct Impression Photo by Michael Keating.

To guide him through Tunisia, E. Casey Kittrell chose a nearly 100-year-old travelogue and discovered what it's like to travel with an observant, prescient, and, sometimes, bigoted man

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Andrew Steves: Travels in Dad’s Footsteps

For young Americans, the first solo trip to Europe is a rite of passage. But what's in store if your father is the king of Europe guidebook writers? Jim Benning finds out.

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Don George: The Art of Travel Writing

Jim Benning asks the author of Lonely Planet's new guide to travel writing about the pleasures and challenges of the work, and the legacy of Salon.com's Wanderlust

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Michael Shapiro: A Sense of Place

Jim Benning asks the travel writer about his new book and his encounters with the world's best travel writers

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