Reviews and Blog Posts: travel

Lunch Travels: India

Submitted by Tara on July 24, 2010 - 8:42pm

Can't afford a trip to a far off land right now? Join us at the newly renovated Ross Cherry Creek Branch Library on Tuesday, July 27 at noon, for delectable food of the region and riveting conversation during Lunch Travels: India! Visit Mumbai, Pune and the Arabian coast as your guide shares pictures, travel tips and anecdotes from her recent adventure.

Did you know that there are about 3,000 languages, including dialects, spoken in India? The library's language database, Mango Languages, can help you learn the national language of India, Hindu, or even Urdu!

Travel to India:

Silk parachute

by John McPhee

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Reviewer:
Stefanie

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June 29, 2010

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It doesn't matter if any of the topics McPhee writes about are personal interests of the reader or not. He makes them fascinating. His essays were completely engaging; I enjoyed this book immensely.

Armchair Travel

Submitted by SarahH on June 28, 2010 - 5:53pm

There's nothing like a good vacation, and summertime always makes me eager to travel. This summer, however, a complicated schedule and lack of funds are keeping me from exploring the world. Fortunately, I can be consoled with books whose settings and plots take me all kinds of places, even from my Denver living room.

The best writers, in my opinion, create a setting that is so vivid that it almost becomes a character.

A carnivore's inquiry

by Sabina Murray

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Liberty

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October 30, 2006

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23 year-old Katherine Shea is a wanderer. Supremely manipulative and charmingly sociopathic, she ingratiates herself to a series of men, young and old, then takes off whenever the mood strikes. Returning to the US from Italy, she jaunts from Manhattan to Maine to Mexico and back, leaving a trail of...