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Book
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Remember hearing an interview with that author of that great book...only
you can't remember what his name was or what the book was called? Well,
now you can find it. Here's a list of the latest books we had on the
show.
Date Aired on the Savvy
Traveler |
Author |
Title |
February 20, 2004
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Richard Grant
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"American Nomad: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders" |
January 30, 2004
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Lynne Cox
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"Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer" |
January 9, 2004
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Ariel Glucklich
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"Climbing Chamundi Hill" |
November 7, 2003
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Patricia Schultz
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"1,000 Places to See Before You Die" |
October 24, 2003
|
Tony Cohan
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"Native State: A Memoir" |
October 17, 2003
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Grant McOmie
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"Grant's Getaways II: More Outdoor Adventures With Oregon's Grant McOmie" |
October 17, 2003
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Grant McOmie
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"Grant's Getaways: Outdoor Adventures with Oregon's Grant McOmie" |
October 9, 2003
|
Hal Rothman
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Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
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September 26, 2003
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Alain de Botton
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The Art of Travel
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September 19, 2003
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Richard Knight
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The Blues Highway: New Orleans to Chicago, 2nd: A Travel and Music Guide
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August 29, 2003
|
Chris Epting
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James Dean Died Here: The Locations of America's Pop Culture Landmarks
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August 29, 2003
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Mary-Lou Weisman
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Traveling While Married
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August 22, 2003
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Sue Halpern
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Four Wings and a Prayer
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August 8, 2003
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Eddy Joe Cotton
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Hobo: A Young Man's Thoughts on Trains and Tramping in America
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July 25, 2003
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Firoozeh Dumas
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
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July 18, 2003
|
James Prosek
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Fly-Fishing the 41st : Around the World on the 41st Parallel
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July 11, 2003
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Mike Tidwell
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Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
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July 4, 2003
|
Cash Peters
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Gullible's Travels
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June 6, 2003
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Jeffrey Epstein, Eddie Shapiro
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Queens in the Kingdom : The Ultimate Gay and Lesbian Guide to the Disney Theme Parks
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June 6, 2003
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Paul Bowles
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The Sheltering Sky
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June 6, 2003
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Dave Eggers
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You Shall Know Our Velocity
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June 6, 2003
|
Brian Hall
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I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark
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June 6, 2003
|
John Lanchester
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The Debt to Pleasure
|
June 6, 2003
|
Paul Theroux
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Dark Star Safari : Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
|
June 6, 2003
|
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
|
The Dirty Girls Social Club: A Novel
|
June 6, 2003
|
Lauren Weisberger
|
The Devil Wears Prada
|
May 23, 2003
|
Michael Palin
|
Sahara
|
May 23, 2003 |
Jambling Tenzing Norgay |
Touching My Father's Soul : A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest |
April 11, 2003 |
Joe Robinson
|
Work to Live: The Guide to Getting a Life
|
March 3, 2003 |
Michael Keith
|
The Next Better Place: A Father and Son on the Road
|
February 21, 2003 |
Geoff Dyer
|
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
|
January 31, 2003 |
John Freyer
|
All My Life for Sale
|
January 31, 2003 |
Bill Holm |
Eccentric Islands |
January 10, 2003 |
Alexia Brue |
Cathedral of Flesh
|
December 27, 2002 |
Isabel Allende |
Portrait in Sepia
|
December 20, 2002 |
Eric Ripert |
A Return to Cooking |
December 13, 2002 |
Robert Henson |
The Rough Guide to Weather |
November 15, 2002 |
Tim Palmer |
Pacific High: Adventures in the Coast Ranges from Baja to Alaska |
October 18, 2002 |
Tony
Horwitz |
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Been Before |
October 11, 2002 |
Jeff
Greenwald |
Scratching the Surface: Impressions of Planet Earth from Hollywood to Shiraz |
October 11, 2002 |
Salman
Rushdie |
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 |
September 20, 2002 |
Edmund
White |
Our Paris: Sketches from Memory and The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
|
September 13, 2002 |
Tom
Stone |
The
Summer of My Greek Taverna |
August 23, 2002 |
Alain
de Botton |
The
Art of Travel |
July 19, 2002 |
Lorne
Rubenstein |
A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands |
July 5, 2002 |
Beppe
Severgnini |
Ciao,
America! An Italian Discovers the US |
July 5, 2002 |
Pascale le Draoulec |
American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads |
June 28, 2002 |
Savvy
Traveler Summer Reading Lists |
Various |
June 14, 2002 |
Nick
Yapp |
Bon
Voyage: An Oblique Glance at the World of Tourism |
June 7, 2002 |
Neil
Steinberg |
Don't Give Up The Ship: Finding My Father While Lost at Sea |
May 24, 2002 |
Jonathan
Kaplan |
The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine |
May 17, 2002 |
Louise
Kollenbaum |
Souvenirs
de Voyage |
May 17, 2002 |
Oliver
Sacks |
Oaxaca Journal |
April 12, 2002 |
Maya
Angelou |
A Song Flung Up To Heaven |
March 29, 2002 |
Irving
Hexham |
The Christian Traveler's Guide To Germany |
March 22, 2002 |
Alan
Rabinowitz |
Beyond The Last Village: A Journey Of Discovery In Asia's Forbidden Wilderness |
March 22, 2002 |
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus |
The
Nanny Diaries |
March 15, 2002 |
Elliot
Hester |
Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet |
March 1, 2002 |
Peter
Ackroyd |
London: The Biography |
February 8, 2002 |
Andrew
Solomon |
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression |
January 18, 2002 |
Anthony
Bourdain |
A
Cook's Tour |
January 18, 2002 |
Zahara
Heckscher |
How To Live Your Dream By Volunteering Overseas |
January 4, 2002 |
Gretel Ehrlich |
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland |
December 7, 2001 |
P.J.
O'Rourke - CEO of the Sofa |
CEO
of the Sofa |
November 16, 2001 |
Emily Prager - Wuhu Diary |
Wuhu Diary |
November 9, 2001 |
Isabel Allende |
Portrait in Sepia |
October 19, 2001 |
Matthew Iribarne |
Astronauts & Other Stories |
October 5, 2001 |
Crossing Over With Ruben Martinez |
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail |
September 21, 2001 |
Peter Hessler - Interview From Abroad |
River Town : Two Years on the Yangtze
|
August 17, 2001 |
Eccentric America - Jan Friedman |
Eccentric America: The Bradt Guide to All That's Weird and Wacky in the USA
|
August 3, 2001 |
Mary Beth Bond |
Gutsy Women: More Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road |
July 27, 2001 |
David Borgenicht |
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel |
July 20, 2001 |
Bob Duskis |
Various pieces of music from Six Degrees Records |
July 6, 2001 |
Sue Halpern |
Four Wings and a Prayer |
June 29, 2001 |
Jamie Jensen |
Road Trip USA |
June 22, 2001 |
Peter Mayle and Sandra Tsing Loh SMACKDOWN! |
A Year in Van Nuys and French Lessons: Adventures With Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew |
June 15, 2001 |
Jambling Tenzing Norgay |
Touching My Father's Soul : A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest |
June 1, 2001 |
Henry Mintzberg |
Why I Hate Flying: Tales for the Tormented Traveler |
May 25, 2001 |
Dave Freeman and Neil Teplica |
100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can't Miss |
May 11, 2001 |
Paul Theroux |
Hotel Honolulu |
May 11, 2001 |
Peter Greenberg |
The Travel Detective: How to Get the Best Service-and the Best Deal-from Airlines, Hotels, Cruise Ships, and Car Rental Agencies |
March 30, 2001 |
Miles Harvey |
The Island of Lost Maps: A Story of Cartographic Crime |
March 23, 2001 |
Wolfgang Puck |
Wolfgang Puck's Pizza, Pasta and More
|
March 16, 2001 |
Tony Hawks |
'Round Ireland With a 'Fridge
|
March 9, 2001 |
Bruce Adams and Margaret Engel |
Baseball Vacations: Great Family Trips to Minor League and Classic Major League Ballparks Across America
|
March 2, 2001 |
Deborah Copaken Kogan |
Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War
|
February 23, 2001 |
Ted Koppel |
Off Camera
|
February 16, 2001 |
Christopher Wren |
The Cat Who Covered the World : The Adventures of Henrietta and Her Foreign Correspondent
|
January 26, 2001 |
Brad Newsham |
Take Me with You: A Round-the-world Journey to Invite a Stranger Home.
|
January 5, 2001 |
Chris
Kilham |
Tales
from the Medicine Trail
|
December 22, 2000 |
Adam
Gopnik |
Paris
to the Moon
|
November 17, 2000 |
Bill
Holm |
Eccentric
Islands
|
November 3, 2000 |
W.
Hodding Carter |
A
Viking Voyage
|
October 20, 2000 |
Mort
Rosenblum |
A
Goose in Toulouse
|
October 6, 2000 |
Ted
Conover |
Newjack:
Guarding Sing Sing
|
September 22, 2000 |
Lucretia
Stewart |
Erogenous
Zones: An Anthology of Sex Abroad
|
September 15, 2000 |
Tony
Hawks |
Round
Ireland with a Fridge
|
September 1, 2000 |
Armistead
Maupin |
The
Night Listener
|
August 25, 2000 |
Gary
McKechnie |
Traveling
by Motocycle
|
August 18, 2000 |
Keith
Lovegrove |
Airline:
Identity, Design and Culture
|
August 11, 2000 |
Judith
Martin |
Miss
Manners on Travel Etiquette
|
August 4, 2000 |
James
Loewen |
Lies
Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
|
July 28, 2000 |
David
Brooks |
Bobos
in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
|
July 7, 2000 |
Bill
Bryson |
In
a Sunburned Country
|
July 1, 2000 |
Teresa
Jordan |
Field
Notes from the Grand Canyon: Raging River, Quiet Mind
|
June 3, 2000 |
Caroline
Alexander |
The
Endurance: Shackelton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
|
May 13, 2000 |
Andres
Martinez |
24/7:
Living It Up and Doubling It Down in the New Las Vegas
|
April 22, 2000 |
Ted
Scull |
100
Best Cruise Vacations
|
February 26, 2000 |
James
Balog |
Animal
|
January 22, 2000 |
Gideon
Bosker and Lena Lencek |
The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth
|
January 22, 2000 |
Tony
Wheeler |
Unpacked |
January 8, 2000 |
Jan
Brunvand |
Too
Good to Be True, the Colossal Book of Urban Legends |
January 8, 2000 |
Diane
Fossey |
Gorillas
in the Mist |
December 11, 1999 |
Bob
Burg |
Mastering
the Art of Positive Persuasion |
December 4, 1999 |
Suzy
Gershman |
Best
Dressed: The Born to Shop Lady's Secrets for Building a Wardrobe
|
November 27, 1999 |
Jerry Hopkins |
Strange
Foods |
November 20, 1999 |
Bill
Tulin and Rebecca Johnson |
Travel
Fitness |
November 6, 1999 |
Ron
and Carol Krannich |
Jobs
for People Who Love to Travel |
October 30, 1999 |
Peter
Mayle |
Encore
Provence |
October 9, 1999 |
Heidi
Yorkshire |
Simply
Wine |
October 2, 1999 |
David
Cohen |
One
Year Off |
September 25, 1999 |
Michael
Stern |
Eat
Your Way Across the USA |
September 18, 1999 |
Mel
Brooks |
The
2000 Year Old Man |
September 4, 1999 |
Tim
Kirkwood |
Becoming
a Flight Attendant |
August 28, 1999 |
Steve
Zikman |
The
Power of Travel |
August 21, 1999 |
Martha
Honey |
Ecotourism
and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise? |
July 31, 1999 |
June
& Anne Walsh |
Bed
& Blessings |
July 24, 1999 |
Bill
Bryson |
I'm
a Stranger Here Myself |
July 17, 1999 |
Cindy
Sondik Aron |
Working
at Play |
July 10, 1999 |
Doug
Lansky |
Up
the Amazon without a Paddle |
June 26, 1999 |
Various
Authors |
Disability
Travel Bookshelf |
June 26, 1999 |
Various
Authors |
Cuban
Lit. Bookshelf |
June 12, 1999 |
Frances
Mayes |
Bella
Tuscany |
May 22, 1999 |
Tim
Flannery |
Wildest
New Guinea |
April 17, 1999 |
Tara
Bahrampour |
To
See and See Again |
April 10, 1999 |
Andre
Codrescu |
Ay,
Cuba |
April 3, 1999 |
Alan
Davis |
The
Fun Also Rises |
March 20, 1999 |
Sheila
Swan and Peter Laufer |
Safety
and Security |
February 27, 1999 |
Mark
Hertsgaard |
Earth
Odyssey |
February 6, 1999 |
Rick
Ridgeway |
The
Shadow of Kilimanjaro |
January 30, 1999 |
Lena
Lencek and Gideon Bosker |
The
Beach |
January 23, 1999 |
Simon
Winchester |
The
Professor and the Madman |
January 9, 1999 |
Robert
Young Pelton |
The
World's Most Dangerous Places |
December 26, 1998 |
Pico
Iyer |
Tropical
Classical |
December 19, 1998 |
Dave
Barry |
Dave
Barry Turns 50 |
December 12, 1998 |
Phil
Cousineau |
The
Art of Pilgrimage |
November 28, 1998 |
Peter
Mayle |
A
Year in Provence |
November 14, 1998 |
P.J.
O'Rourke |
Eat
the Rich |
November 7, 1998 |
Suzy
Gershman |
Born
to Shop |
October 31, 1998 |
Tony
Wheeler |
Chasing
Rickshaws |
October 17, 1998 |
Armistad
Maupin |
Tales
of the City |
September 26, 1998 |
William
Langewiesche |
Inside
the Sky |
September 5, 1998 |
Lama
Surya Das |
Awaken
the Buddha Within |
July 18, 1998 |
Karin
Muller |
Hitchhiking
in Vietnam |
July 4, 1998 |
Marina
Harrison and Lucy Rosenfeld |
Gardenwalks
|
June 26, 1998 |
Paul
Alan Cox |
Nafanu
|
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FEATURES
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Travel Bookshelf
Cuban
Literature Bookshelf
Readers'
Favorites (April 1999) Listen
to feature
Richard Haliburton The Complete Book of Marvels
Jeannette Belliveau An Amateur's Guide to the Plane
Paul Bowles Collected Stories, 1939-1976
Peter Mayle
reads from his book Chasing Cezanne (November 1998)
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Pico Iyer
describes why he travels. Go
to feature
Summer Reading
List
Our listeners recommended their favorites which resulted in our own Savvy
Traveler feature. Go
to feature
Public Radio Hosts' Favorites:
Deborah
Byrd, Earth & Sky: A Sentimental
Journey by Laurence Sterne
Lynne Rossetto Kasper, The Splendid Table:
Italy for the Gourmet Traveler by Fred Plotkin
Ira Glass, This American Life:
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families:
Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Bill McGlaughlin, St. Paul Sunday:
A Kingdom by the Sea by Paul Theroux
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