Pearl has produced a winner and the perfect bedside companion. The story centers around two friends, Emily and Kristin, who love to go on. My Mercedes is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to OuagadougouAn Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara by Jeroen Van Bergeijk. Recommended by Nancy Pearl in Book Lust To Go. Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Journey Across North Africa by Michael Mewshaw. It might have been easy to stick with the country structure for a book like this, but Pearl mixed it up, to good effect, with chapters like 'So We/I Bought (or Built) A House In ' which includes books about homes in Morocco, Mexico, France, Brazil, and Ireland. Reese Witherspoon has been recommending her favorite books to readers. Recommended by Nancy Pearl in Book Lust To Go. In 'Africa,' for instance, she includes the classic Cry the Beloved Country as well as contemporary mysteries such as Wife of the Gods. Pearl classifies her recommendations well enough so that readers can take or leave her advice. In an entry for 'Las Vegas,' for example, Pearl recommends Chris Ewan's novel, The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas, for fans of Hiaassen and Westlake, capers that use various cities of the world for their settings. With fanciful alliteration, Pearl lists titles under topics arranged from 'A is for Adventure' to 'Zipping through Zimbabwe.' Recommendations are accompanied by brief critiques and insights. At first, that perturbed me than I wised up and saw it as a wonderful opportunity to increase my collection by adding some of the titles that Pearl recommends.With the holidays just around the corner, Nancy Pearl's little gem will please many a traveler (or dreamer) who loves to read about faraway places but doesn't know where to start. I have a small collection of books by distance walkers, those people who walk from one country to the next for months, or years, at a time, and I was a bit surprised that not a single one of my books is mentioned in Book Lust to Go. Also prominently featured under the general heading of travel books are those written by adventurers, explorers, solo travelers, long-long distance walkers, women who travel alone, and “star trekkers” (those who seem to spend most of their lives traveling around the world). Pearl focuses on travel writing, of course, and some of the books she recommends are the old fashioned travel guides most travelers have come to depend on over the years. I was particularly happy to find that Book Lust to Go was not just a listing of the most helpful travel guides, as I at first feared from its title that it would be.

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