Comments on: Pairing your trip with the perfect book http://www.vagablogging.net/pairing-your-trip-with-the-perfect-book.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Ann http://www.vagablogging.net/pairing-your-trip-with-the-perfect-book.html/comment-page-1#comment-2120 Ann Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:07:47 +0000 http://qs1937.pair.com/users/bootlabs/vagablogging.net/_wp/pairing-your-trip-with-the-perfect-book.html#comment-2120 I also think choosing the right book for the trip is an art. I often will get a book that connects to the place I'm traveling to. I really like history books. Especially when it focuses on a very specific time. I also like to buy books at the destination, like you said. I spend a lot of my travel time at the bookstore. AN interesting benefit to this is to see how the other culture views America. There's always a lot of books about the country's opinion and even though I don't speak the language, the cover art and my limited knowledge go a long way. There was a photo book in Germany about guns in America, for example. On my last trip to Germany and Italy, I brought "The Name of the Rose". It was pretty cool because it starts by discussing the catholic church in the 1300s and I had just finished listening to a tour in a German museum about that same era. I also think choosing the right book for the trip is an art. I often will get a book that connects to the place I’m traveling to. I really like history books. Especially when it focuses on a very specific time. I also like to buy books at the destination, like you said. I spend a lot of my travel time at the bookstore. AN interesting benefit to this is to see how the other culture views America. There’s always a lot of books about the country’s opinion and even though I don’t speak the language, the cover art and my limited knowledge go a long way. There was a photo book in Germany about guns in America, for example.

On my last trip to Germany and Italy, I brought “The Name of the Rose”. It was pretty cool because it starts by discussing the catholic church in the 1300s and I had just finished listening to a tour in a German museum about that same era.

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