Perceptive Travel January/February 2008

Welcome to the latest issue of Perceptive Travel, the award-winning home of great travel stories, travel book reviews, and the latest notable world music CDs. Here's what we've got in store for you this time:

"Bragging Rights" - Marie Javins

The author of Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik returns from an Antarctica cruise wondering if some places are better left to the luxury crowd or left alone completely.




"Do More With Less: Survival, Then Surviving Scotch" - Bruce Northam

Bruce Northam enrolls in a desert survival school in Utah and finds that the mind is the strongest muscle in the body (even when the mind gets muddied by single malt Scotch).




"Travel with Children – Go Figure" - Fawzia Rasheed

Is traveling with kids something to fear, fret over, and throw your old independent spirit out the window for, or does it just require a little tweaking? The author of Travel with Babies and Young Children thinks she might have the answers.




"Journey Through the Ice" - David Lee Drotar

By reindeer sleigh, dogsled, snowmobile, snowshoes, and icebreaker ship, David Lee Drotar makes his way across the white landscape of Arctic Finland.




"Apocalypse Soon: On the Lemanak River of Sarawak" - Graham Reid

Graham Reid ventures up the Lemanak River in Malaysian Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, to see how the old headhunters are handling jungle clearing, longboats full of tourists, and the arrival of a Hilton.




Plus World Music Reviews -

This month we review Djin Djin by Angelique Kidjo, Afro Disco Beat by Tony Allen, and Putumayo Presents – Tango Around the World.



Travel Book Reviews -

Tim Leffel reviews Marco Polo, The Geography of Bliss, Bad Karma, and The Viva List Latin America.

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