Kermit Lynch: Adventures On The Wine Route
an engaging (tho sexist) 1980s history of wine in France
an engaging (tho sexist) 1980s history of wine in France
uninspiring 1940s travel writing
thoughts on a 1922 essay on travel
a book almost squarely aimed at me
another racist travel book
how limbo can you go?
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
Contemporary fairy tales from Macedonia
DHL happy in Mexico, then beautifully sad elsewhere.
Very Colonial travel writing from author of The Painted Veil
I review a Lawrentian travel writing collection containing Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Sketches of Etruscan Places.
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