Comments on: Armchair travel http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/04/armchair-travel/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Lauren http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/04/armchair-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-41260 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:32:02 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11322#comment-41260 Ooh, that sounds fun. Thanks, Joelle!

]]> By: Lauren http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/04/armchair-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-41259 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:31:33 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11322#comment-41259 You know, I’ve always meant to check that one out. Thanks!

]]> By: Joelle http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/04/armchair-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-41257 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:55:37 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11322#comment-41257 While I generally try to get everyone I meet to start with book one of the Betsy-Tacy series, you could just read BETSY AND THE GREAT WORLD as a stand-alone. If you’re not familiar with B&T (I’ll try to refrain from saying WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU???), then I’ll tell you that it’s set right before WWI and Betsy travels by steamship to Germany, and then on through Italy with brief stops along the way in Paris and Switzerland, and finishes up in London. It’s such a fabulous trip, and to see Europe before those wars is a real treat. The author did that trip herself. Or something like it, anyway. This would be considered YA.

]]> By: Lynn Coulter http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/04/armchair-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-41253 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:37:39 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11322#comment-41253 Under the Tuscan Sun, by Frances Mayes, appeals to the gardener and the traveler in me.

]]> By: Lauren http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/04/armchair-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-41252 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:35:34 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11322#comment-41252 Thanks for the recommendations, Kim!

]]> By: Kim Bowman http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/04/armchair-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-41239 Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:04:46 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11322#comment-41239 Shyam Selvadurai’s _Funny Boy_ is a great trip to Sri Lanka in the late 70s and early 80s, just before the outbreak of their civil war.

I’m currently re-reading _As I Lay Dying_. Picking up fiction written in and about a specific time and place always transports me, and puts me to thinking about what was happening in the world at that time.

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