travel

Lonely Planet said Monday it stands by the accuracy of its travel guides following news reports that one of its authors claimed he plagiarized and invented sections of the books. But author Thomas Kohnstamm later told The Associated Press that his remarks to the Australian newspapers were "taken out of context."

Louise Doughty talks about how non-stop reading of the Booker entrants is a great way to travel and ponders how her surroundings might affect her attitude toward the works.

Planning a little globe hopping? Looking for an unusual vacation? Check out this list of ten weirdest travel books before you decide. Maybe you’d like to Travel by Cargo Ship, or perhaps you’d fancy a trip Round Ireland with a Fridge.

I thought this a great title for a book that “is a savagely funny act of revenge for years spent servicing the travel fantasies of gullible readers.” The author, Chuck Thompson, long-time travel journalist, relates the “dirty little detours” that await real travelers in the real world and demolishes the sugar-coated, dream-fantasy world of travel writing, or travel-porn, as he calls it.

You've watched the crappy movie, read Hemispheres, eaten the soggy $10 panini you bought in the terminal, and flipped through SkyMall three times. Yet still — hours to go before touchdown at SFO. You gaze out the window and wonder: What the hell are those weird green and yellow circles scattered across the Midwest?

“Unlike calendars and telephone books, maps combine form, function and fantasy, a potent blend.” Potent enough for cartography to become a popular subject for books. Here’s a look at nine volumes featuring maps of varying kinds and descriptions…much easier to deal with than the ones in your glove compartment.

Here's a neat article about travel poetry with some neat examples of good poetry books used to explain.

SocioScifi, and rational for myths that create the mischievous canvas of historical nonsense: creating passage in a way that linear print can't do as easily without sequencial art. I want to lead you on a scavenger hunt through forms of time, stitches of space, and your own reality; to collect a conclusion out of altering endings, and reincarnated/reborn beginnings.

A guy pretends to be a writer in exchange for a meal.

A nice story about an art thief in reverse.