http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog Original. Authentic. Interesting people talking about travel books and places. Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:48:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/04/a-favorite-spot/your-favorite-city/ http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/04/a-favorite-spot/your-favorite-city/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:27:01 +0000 admin http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/?p=2373 Istanbul, Marrakech, Barcelona, Luan Prabang, New York or Shanghai, what’s your favorite city? We’re celebrating the one year anniversary of the Longitude Blog, and invite you dear readers to contribute your favorite city. In keeping with the spirit of the blog, let us know some magical, memorable or surprising spot in a favorite city.  Comment
Read Full Post >]]> http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/04/a-favorite-spot/your-favorite-city/feed/ 11 http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/04/whats-new/adventure-maps/ http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/04/whats-new/adventure-maps/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:04:38 +0000 admin http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/?p=2365 Created in conjunction with the cartographers at the exemplary World Mapping Project, these new Adventure Maps by National Geographic cover popular destinations in detail. Printed on water- and tear-resistant paper, the series has been growing by leaps and bounds, now covering not just Costa Rica but Panama, Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and the Yucatan.
Read Full Post >]]> http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/04/whats-new/adventure-maps/feed/ 0 http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/book-of-the-week/travel-a-literary-history/ http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/book-of-the-week/travel-a-literary-history/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:10:23 +0000 admin http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/?p=2348 Peter Whitfield must have been busy at the Bodleian! Travel A Literary History highlights 150 books from the collection, ranging from voyages of Marco Polo and Columbus to the twentieth-century adventures of Maurice Herzog, Patrick Leigh Fermor and many more. Mariners and missionaries, diplomats and dilettantes alike are represented in this judicious sampling of travel
Read Full Post >]]> http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/book-of-the-week/travel-a-literary-history/feed/ 0 http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/a-favorite-spot/square-du-vert-galant-paris/ http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/a-favorite-spot/square-du-vert-galant-paris/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:34:16 +0000 admin http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/?p=2327 Kindly contributed by Susan Cahill, author of the new Hidden Gardens of Paris, A Guide to the Parks, Squares, and Woodlands of the City of Light. “They’re easy to miss, the off-the-beaten-track green spaces of Paris. But whether by metro or on foot — Julia Childs’ way of getting to know the city — you
Read Full Post >]]> http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/a-favorite-spot/square-du-vert-galant-paris/feed/ 0 http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/whats-new/city-select/ http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/whats-new/city-select/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:10:01 +0000 admin http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/?p=1563 Paris, Marrakech and Shanghai get the City Select treatment this spring, joining New York, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Rome, San Franciso and London in the stylish series. Which is your favorite city? Each with a trim size of 4 x 6 inches, these pocket guides are bound in patterned fabric. Their focus is on exploring neighborhoods,
Read Full Post >]]> http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/whats-new/city-select/feed/ 0 http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/a-favorite-spot/fort-tiracol-goa/ http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/a-favorite-spot/fort-tiracol-goa/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:19:27 +0000 admin http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/?p=2282 The irrepressible Fiona Caulfield writes in the new Love Goa guide, that “by the end of the 16th century, Goa, then known as Goa Dourado or Golden Goa, was the capital of the world’s spice trade and one of the richest places on earth, with a population larger than London or Paris.”  The convents, seminaries
Read Full Post >]]> http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/a-favorite-spot/fort-tiracol-goa/feed/ 0 http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/whats-new/tulipomania/ http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/whats-new/tulipomania/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:56:42 +0000 admin http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/?p=2271 Held in the Netherlands every ten years since 1960, Floriade 2012 opens April 5 in in North Limburg (once the Duchy of Limburg). Set in an expansive park in Venlo with the many pavilions separated by gardens and woods, the world horticultural expo runs through October 7.  The flower fields at Keukenhof, located outside Lisse
Read Full Post >]]> http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/whats-new/tulipomania/feed/ 0 http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/book-of-the-week/venice-ruled-the-seas/ http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/book-of-the-week/venice-ruled-the-seas/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:57:27 +0000 admin http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/?p=2259 Roger Crowley spins tales of three centuries of plunder and plague, conquest and piracy in City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas, chronicling the transformation of a tiny city of lagoon dwellers (Venice) into the richest place on earth. Crowley has also memorably written of Istanbul, Venice’s natural rival and object of envy, in
Read Full Post >]]> http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/book-of-the-week/venice-ruled-the-seas/feed/ 0 http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2011/12/book-of-the-week/in-search-of-the-south-pole/ http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2011/12/book-of-the-week/in-search-of-the-south-pole/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:11:48 +0000 admin http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/?p=2226 In Search of the South Pole, the best book we’ve seen on polar exploration in many a year, captures the ambition, romance and thrill of adventuring in Antarctica. Kari Herbert (daughter of polar explorer Sir Wally) and husband Huw Lewis-Jones collared an international who’s who of explorers, historians, scientists and polar experts for this irresistible
Read Full Post >]]> http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2011/12/book-of-the-week/in-search-of-the-south-pole/feed/ 2 http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2011/12/whats-new/south-pole-centenary/ http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/index.php/2011/12/whats-new/south-pole-centenary/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:46:03 +0000 admin http://www.longitudebooks.com/blog/?p=2218 Bravo, Amundsen! “And at last we reached our destination,” wrote Roald Amundsen 100 years ago on December 14, 1911 at the South Pole. The Prime Minister of Norway is already at the Pole, the King of Norway will unveil a new national monument, and “Framheim, A Village Under the Ice,” a reconstruction of Amundsen’s long-lost
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