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Staff Reviews: Travel

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Cover: 'Lithium Jesus'

"Lithium Jesus" by Charles Monroe-Kane

★★★★ Charles Monroe-Kane is a Peabody Award winning producer at National Public Radio. Before earning that title he spent what seems like a lifetime acquiring the labels of youth preacher, faith healer, traveler, smuggler, environmental activist, record producer, circus manager, and more. During his childhood Monroe-Kane began hearing voices in his head....

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, Biography And Memoir, Mental Health, Travel
Cover: 'Destinations of a Lifetime: 225 of the World's Most Amazing Places'

"Destinations of a Lifetime: 225 of the World's Most Amazing Places" by National Geographic Society

★★★★★ This book will give you more than enough ideas and inspirations to feed your wanderlust. National Geographic lives up to their reputation by giving you amazing destinations to visit broken down into categories of things to see around the world: nature unbound, hand of man, sea & shore, mountain majesty and town & country. As if that isn't enough,...

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, Travel
Cover: 'Make My Day London'

"Make My Day London" by Lonely Planet

★★★★ This is a great, quick resource to go through for anyone interested in a short trip to London. As someone who's lived in this amazing city, I thought Lonely Planet did a great job picking some of the top attractions for a city where there's something to see around every corner (in my very biased opinion!). This resource allows you to mix and match...

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, Travel
Cover: 'Unseen London'

"Unseen London" by Mark Daly, Peter Dazeley

★★★★★ Have you ever been curious about what different buildings might look like from the inside? What about historic buildings in one of the most famous world cities? This book is a gem with really wonderful pictures of some very iconic and historic buildings of London. It is very interesting to see the different styles and architecture that lay behind closed...

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, Travel, Photography
Cover: 'Humans of New York'

"Humans of New York" by Brandon Stanton

★★★★★ Chances are if you are on any type of social media, then you've probably been exposed to the fabulous photography of Humans of New York. While working as a bond trader in Chicago in January 2010, Stanton discovered a passion for photography. When his job ended, he decided to do something crazy and take up photography full time. He decided to go from city to...

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, Travel, Photography
Cover: 'A Walk in Paris'

"A Walk in Paris" by Salvatore Rubbino

★★★★ Accompany a girl and her grandfather on their walk through Paris! All of the splendor of the most well known landmarks of the city are visited and portrayed in a sight-seeing tour. The beautiful illustrations and simple story make for a wonderful journey for any young reader. In addition to the story, there are fun facts about Paris on every page for the...

Audience: Children | Genre: Nonfiction, Travel
Cover: '100 Places You Will Never Visit: The World's Most Secret Locations'

"100 Places You Will Never Visit: The World's Most Secret Locations" by Daniel Smith

★★★★★ This utterly fascinating travel guide describes and illustrates sites us normal people will NEVER be allowed to visit. If you do try and visit them, you will end up being warned off by gun-toting guards, carted off to jail or killed! The sites include super-secret military and intelligence bases/sites around the world such as Area 51 and Diego Garcia,...

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, Travel
Cover: 'Beaches, 100 Ultimate Escapes'

"Beaches, 100 Ultimate Escapes" by Stefano Passaquindici, Sabrina Talarico

★★★★★ Armchair travelers will enjoy Sabrina Talarico's captivating, full-color guide to the most breath-taking beaches in the world. Each beach rates a one-page write-up with one or more color photographs. The beaches are divided into sections: 'Fun Beaches,' ' Protected Beaches,' 'Natural Paradises,' 'Sports Beaches' and so on. The result is a charming, gorgeous...

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, Photography, Nature, Travel
Cover: 'Spectacular Paris'

"Spectacular Paris" by William Scheller

★★★★★ In need of a great coffee table book with beautiful pictures and insightful information?  This is it! Be transported to the City Of Light, Paris, through some very spectacular photographs of famous Parisian landmarks as well as some interesting insight to accompany them. This is the perfect book to transport your mind to one of the most iconic cities...

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, Travel
Cover: 'Great Escapes: Enjoy the World at Your Leisure'

"Great Escapes: Enjoy the World at Your Leisure" by Lonely Planet

★★★★★ GREAT ESCAPES transports readers around the globe to over 70 travel destinations and then offers up 'Essential Experiences' lists of things to do once you arrive. Would-be travelers are treated to exotic sites in Spain, Africa, China, Bhutan, the U.K., Canada, Colombia and other locales. Each destination is highlighted in a three-four page essay featuring...

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, Travel, Photography
Cover: 'Four Seasons of Travel'

"Four Seasons of Travel" by National Geographic Society

★★★★★ This sumptuous travel guide offers up hundreds of gorgeous, full-color photographs and first-person reminiscences of "400 of the world's best destinations in winter, spring, summer and fall." Among the destinations covered are Edinburgh, London, Victoria Falls, Queenstown, New York City, Lake Como, Oaxaca, the Atlas Mountains, Newport, St. Petersburg,...

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, Travel, Photography
Cover: 'The A-Z of Curious London'

"The A-Z of Curious London" by Gilly Pickup

★★★★ One of the most fascinating cities in the world, London has had its share of 'oddball history' as revealed in Gilly Pickup's charming, informative book. Here can be found details on the dentist who kept his dead wife on view in a shop window, London's oldest restaurant, the ghosts of Ham House, Sweeney Todd's evil doings, the smallest police station in the...

Audience: Adults | Genre: Nonfiction, History, Travel