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The Innocent Anthropologist

The Innocent Anthropologist, by Nigel Barley, is a terrific book about the reality of doing fieldwork: intelligent, funny, and very honest. Highly, highly recommended for all readers, not just anthropologists.

Innocent Anthropologist--a wonderful book

The Innocent Anthropologist, by Nigel Barley, is a terrific book about the reality of doing fieldwork: intelligent, funny, and very honest. Highly, highly recommended for all readers, not just anthropologists.

Review: "First Contact:New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the Outside World"

"First Contact: New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the Outside World," by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson is a fascinating account of the first white exploration of the New Guinea highlands. For most American readers, the dramatic story will be unfamiliar, and the photographs are wonderful.

See my review on Goodreads or on my TraveLit blog. (Scroll down the page a bit for the review.)

Interesting Link

Traveling with Elizabeth Bishop's evocative poem, Questions of Travel: "Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today?"

Elizabeth Bishop: "Questions of Travel"

Traveling with Elizabeth Bishop's evocative poem, Questions of Travel: "Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today?"

Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Travel

Traveling with Elizabeth Bishop's evocative poem, Questions of Travel: "Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today?"

Book Review Heidi's Alp: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe

Heidis Alp: One Familys Search for Storybook Europe By Christina Hardyment. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987, 258 pp. The greatest travelers travel alone, wrote John Julius Norwich, in A Taste for Travel. Maybe so. But some very fine travelers travel with families, and their books can be just as engaging. In Heidis Alp, Christina Hardyment recounts the 7-week journey she took with her four daughters, ages 5 through 12, to explore the roots of European fairy tales. As they travel from their Oxford...

Travel Quotation

Maps are not reality at all--they can be tyrants. I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others, who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails. ―John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley Yes, but I would alter this a bit: I think it's not that maps "are not reality at all," but that they aren't all of reality.

National Travel and Tourism Week: Read a Travel Classic

For National Travel and Tourism Week, I suggest reading a travel classic. Some recommended titles, with dates reviewed on my Authors Guild blog TraveLit:

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, by Laurie Lee (7/15)
Cooper's Creek, by Alan Moorehead (10/13)
Two Against the Ice, by Ejnar Mikkelsen (1/15)
A Visit to Don Otavio, by Sybille Bedford (4/14)
Three in Norway by Two of Them, by Lees and Clutterbuck (9/13)

So many terrific books! For more titles, and reviews, please visit TraveLit

National Travel and Tourism Week

For National Travel and Tourism Week, I suggest reading a travel classic. Many are reviewed on this blog. Among my favorites, along with the dates of their reviews: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, by Laurie Lee (7/15) Cooper's Creek, by Alan Moorehead (10/13) Two Against the Ice, by Ejnar Mikkelsen (1/15) A Visit to Don Otavio, by Sybille Bedford (4/14) Three in Norway by Two of Them, by Lees and Clutterbuck (9/13).