Copyright (C) Perceptive Travel 2009. All rights reserved.
Copyright (C) Perceptive Travel 2009. All rights reserved.
Perceptive Travel January/February 2007
Welcome to the first anniversary issue of Perceptive Travel. Here's what we've got in store for you:
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"Searching the BAM For Russia's Lost Moustache"
Guidebook author Robert Reid rides the rails of Siberia, seeking the state of the moustache in the men of today's Russia.
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"Ballad of a Traveling Buddha"
Joshua Berman returns to Perceptive Travel with a different Buddha tale, this time chronicling the round-the-world travails of his trusty backpacker talisman.
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Dominic Hamilton ventures to a forgotten corner of southern Russia, where shamens and throat singers help him see both the present and future more clearly.
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"Hot Times in the Riviera Maya"
Zora O'Neill straddles the worlds of budget traveler and 5-star hotel guest while doing guidebook research in America's satellite playground of Cancun and the Riviera Maya.
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Globetrotter Dogma author Bruce Northam makes his third appearance in Perceptive Travel with a trek through the original boondocks--the wild footpath-only terraced mountains of northern Luzon, in the Philippines.
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Plus World music reviews
New Zealander Graham Reid covers this month's music reviews, giving us the scoop on albums from the Middle East, South Africa, and Britain, with a dollop of Afro-American musical history.
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This month there's a double dose of travel books. First there's World Party, Stalking the Wild Dik–Dik, The Best American Travel Writing 2006, A Year of Adventures.
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Page 2 of reviews covers Lonely Planet's new Citiescape guides, The World Heritage, and Tales from Nowhere.
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