Copyright (C) Perceptive Travel 2009. All rights reserved.
Copyright (C) Perceptive Travel 2009. All rights reserved.
Perceptive Travel September/October 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:
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A Passage Back to India - Anne Cushman
The author of Enlightenment for Idiots returns to the India she saw as a backpacker and finds both herself and the country in different shape than before.
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The Days Before Travel Was Tamed - Tony Perrottet
While there are still a few vestiges of decadence around the world, the current travel options have nothing on 18th-century Paris and Weimer-era Berlin, where "anything goes" was more than a marketing slogan.
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Bloodvein: Redemption on the River in Manitoba - Amy Rosen
If life is a bowl of cherries, why am I getting bitten by a poisonous Spider while taking a pee in the woods? Amy Rosen goes roughing it, paddling downriver to go sweat at the Bloodvein Indian Reserve.
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Missing in Patagonia - Camille Cusumano
When the subject of a brief encounter goes missing in Torres del Paine National Park, the author of Tango, an Argentine Love Story wonders if she could have changed the ending.
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Thoughts of Theroux, Back on the Train - Michael Shapiro
The author who interviewed Paul Theroux in A Sense of Place talks with a Cambodian bookseller who also met the man and appears as a character in the new Ghost Train to the Eastern Star.
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Where is the Where? Hiking to the Horizon in Iceland - Lea Aschkenas
Memories of downplaying the effort ahead come back to haunt a hiker as she confronts wildly optimistic hiking times to get through tough trails in the Iceland countryside.
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Plus World Music Reviews -
Songs from a lonely drifter, a great collection of West African hip-hop, collections from the Congo and Romania, and a fresh take on Latin music from Buena Vibra Sound System.
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Dear American Airlines, Under the Protection of the Cow Demon, and Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine–soaked Journey from Grape to Glass.
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