Swept: Love with a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche is about Torre’s wild and crazy adventure when she meets the man of her dreams and decides to sail the Pacific with him. Part travelogue, part love story this book had me turning the pages wondering what was going to happen next. I couldn’t put [...]
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Book Review: The Sweet Life in Paris
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious – and Perplexing – City by David Lebovitz is about David Lebovitz and his journey to Paris and learning about being Parisian. Lebovitz lived and worked in San Francisco for nearly twenty years as a pastry chef and a cookbook author, after an [...]
Book Review: Little Princes
Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan is about Conor Grennan and his life-changing trip to Nepal. At the age of 29, Conor quit his job to travel around the world for one year. His first stop off was in Nepal at the Little Princes orphanage, [...]
Book Review: Marco Polo Didn’t Go There
Marco Polo Didn’t Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer by Rolf Potts is a compilation of twenty short stories that Rolf Potts had published in print or in online form. At the end of each short story he has included endnotes, he explains that the endnotes describe, “how [...]
Book Review: My Life in France
My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’home is not the typical “travel” book that I would do a review of for the website. However, I felt that it does fall into the “travel” category, as well as “autobiography” and “food and drink.” My Life in France is about Julia Child and her [...]
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