More treasures for the armchair traveler. My First New York: Early Adventures in the Big City collects candid accounts of coming to New York by more than fifty celebrities who have called New York home. Writer Nora Ephron came to New York City to become a journalist. Model and actress Lauren Hutton came for two [...]
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You never know what you’ll find on a trip through the library stacks. Back in the travel section of Popular Culture are all sorts of gems for the armchair traveler, including these older titles which you may have missed when they first came out. The Clumsiest People in Europe or: Mrs. Mortimer’s Bad-Tempered guide to [...]
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Dickens immersed himself in the city of London, walking the streets and neighborhoods for hours on end, absorbing the city’s life and atmosphere for his novels. Visit Dickens’ world with books, and a video visit to one of his homes in London, now the Dickens’ Museum. Victorian London street life in historic photographs is a classic document of social realism containing [...]
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May is National Bike Month. Celebrate with these amazing stories. Mark Beaumont is The Man Who Cycled the World. When he set out, he had no idea what the journey would require of him. By the time he returned, a world-record 184 days after he began, he’d traveled four continents, made lifelong friends, been mugged, [...]
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When travelling, a guidebook needs to be compact and convenient, but when you are looking for travel inspiration, you want a book that is big and colorful and enticing . At the top of this list for 2010 is Lonely Planet’s The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World. Propped on the [...]
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Great travel writers can open new worlds no matter how little or far they travel. You read their books for the language, not the destinations. If your budget is slim, and you’d like to travel the world in great company without spending a penny, try one of the following: While Bill Bryson is best known for his [...]
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Most of us choose to spend our precious vacation time travelling to destinations where we hope to relax and enjoy ourselves. There are those however, who seem to relish adventure based on the danger it presents. These extreme tourists seem happy to endure assaults to the mind , body and spirit while moving bravely toward [...]
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The weather finally makes you want to be outside, but once the yardwork is done, what then? Popular Culture has trail guides, walking tours, and bike tour handbooks all filled with ideas for where to go and how to get there. Here are some books to get you started. For adventures in and around Ohio look into Rail-trails Midwest [...]
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With Ray Horner on his morning show on WAKR-AM, the subject was the wonders and pleasures of every now and then just browsing your local library….. So often we have our selected book club title to read, or we hear about something on the news and want to pursue it, or there’s a book that’s “assigned” [...]
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People bike for many reasons – fitness, basic transportation, reducing their carbon footprint, competition, and recreation. And of course bikers sometimes write books about their passion. In Pedaling to Lunch area resident Stan Purdum introduces us to 20 of his favorite bicycle tours through small towns and the countryside in Northeast Ohio. Each tour includes detailed maps, mileage notations, precise directions, [...]
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