Welcome to the October 2014 issue of online magazine Perceptive Travel, the home of great travel stories from book authors and the latest notable travel book and world music reviews. Here's what we've got in store for you:
A Spanish Death in the Afternoon - Beebe Bahrami
A nice Sunday lunch turns into someone's last meal in Tarragona, Spain.
Following the Grooves in Martinique - Darrin DuFord
Our author settles the analog versus digital debate with a little nudge from the Antilles' temperamental summer rains.
Handmade in Oaxaca - Tim Leffel
Attending Mexico's greatest artisan area during the annual Guelaguetza festival means a decadent bombardment of hand-crafted food, spirits, and works of art.
World Music Reviews - Laurence Mitchell
A two-CD set bookending a band's 25 years, "folktronic" music from South America, a "world-jazz-folk ensemble," and beloved Spanish/Colombian singer Marta Gómez.
Travel Book Reviews - Susan Griffith
Accounts on discovering and creating memories through the physical act of walking, on testing one's courage by living in China, and on coming through many adversities across Asia with one's faith in human nature intact.
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