Travel Archives

An Hour from Paris, Annabel Simms [1] - It may not strike first-time visitors to Paris, but one of the world’s most civilized cities is also a theme park. Parisland, I call it.

City Secrets: New York City, Robert Kahn (editor) [2] - Almost every afternoon, as I go to collect the kid at school, I run into a foreign couple at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 94th Street.

Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman, Alice Steinbach [3] - The dollar shows no signs of getting off its sickbed. That means a cafe creme can cost $7 in Paris.

Hidden New York, Marci Reaven and Steve Zeitlin [4] - Every week, it seems, someone writes from the country beyond the Hudson River to announce a visit to New York. “What shall I do?&rdqu

Italianissimo: The Quintessential Guide to What Italians Do Best, Louise Fili & Lise Apatoff [5] - I can remember traveling to Italy when the dollar was strong and the lira was downtrodden.

Novel Destinations, Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon [6] - Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West Sha

Paris Quiz: How Well Do You Know Paris?, Dominique Lesbros [7] - Dominique Lesbros annoys me. I’ve been to Paris a gazillion times, lived there for months, get around without a map.

Paris: Made by Hand: 50 Shops Where Decorators and Stylists Source the Chic & Unique, Pia Jane Bijkerk [8] - Unless you shopped at high-end boutiques and specialty stores in a handful of large American cities, it used to be that you had to go to Paris to bu

Parisian Hideaways: Exquisite Rooms in Enchanting Hotels, Casey O'Brien Blondes [9] - Once you have a kid, you make overnight flights less often.

Parisians' Paris, Bill Gillham [10] - We have all read a zillion guidebooks directing us to the best stuff, the special stuff, even the secret stuff in Paris, and if we’re jaded, we

Quiet Corners of Paris, Jean-Christophe Napias [11] - For many travelers, Paris is Parisland. Here's the Eiffel Tower. Let's take a boat ride along the Seine. Ah, the Champs Elysees.

Quiet Corners of Rome, David Downie [12] - The book doesn’t exist, but on the basis of the title I cooked up, it’s the shortest book ever written.

Secret Hotels: Extraordinary Values in the World's Most Stunning Destinations, Erik Torkells [13] - You can't get a room during peak season at a resort for $1,500 a night --- the rich took them all long ago.

Stealing Magnolias: Tales from a New Orleans Courtyard, Debra Shriver [14] - My first meeting with Debra Shriver tested my sense of reality.

The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton [15] - A December afternoon in London --- it's depressing just to read those words, much less be there.

The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places, Klara Glowczewska (editor) [16] - In mid-winter, the clever FM stations play “Marrakech Express.” The dull ones play “If You’re Going to San Francisco (Be Sure

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific, J. Maarten Troost [17] - The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific J. Maarten Troost Travel books are advertisements.

To a Mountain in Tibet, Colin Thubron [18] - Over the decades, I’ve read the chapter in “The Way of the White Clouds” about the trek around Tibet’s Mount Kailas so often t

Travels, Michael Crichton [19] - Michael Crichton I knew him oh-so-slightly. We shared a dinner or two with the art crowd.

Vicksburg, Mississippi [20] - Vicksburg, Mississippi The Rejoice Gospel s

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[1] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/hour-paris
[2] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/city-secrets-new-york-city
[3] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/educating-alice-adventures-curious-woman
[4] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel
[5] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel-0
[6] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/novel-destinations
[7] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/paris-quiz-how-well-do-you-know-paris
[8] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/paris-made-hand-50-shops-where-decorators-and-stylists-source-chic-amp-unique
[9] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/parisian-hideaways-exquisite-rooms-enchanting-hotels
[10] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/parisians-paris
[11] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/quiet-corners-paris
[12] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/quiet-corners-rome
[13] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/secret-hotels
[14] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/stealing-magnolias-tales-new-orleans-courtyard
[15] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/art-travel
[16] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/conde-nast-traveler-book-unforgettable-journeys-great-writers-great-places
[17] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/sex-lives-cannibals-adrift-equatorial-pacific
[18] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/mountain-tibet
[19] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/travels
[20] http://www.headbutler.com/books/travel/vicksburg
[21] http://www.headbutler.com/archives/books/travel?page=1