Good books, like great travel, can take you places, spark your imagination and enrich your everyday life. We hope this suggested list of titles will inspire your next adventure or simply take you away to a land not yet traveled.
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Assouline’s ‘Escape Hotel Stories: Retreat and Refuge in Nature’
Assouline publishes thoughtfully designed photography books that are escapist in the best sense – we have previously reviewed “American Fashion Travel: Designers on the Go” and “In the Spirit of St. Barths.” In its latest travel title, “Escape Hotel Stories: Retreat and Refuge in Nature,” Francisca Mattéoli profiles a range of splendidly isolated resorts set in pristine natural environments. Many Harper-recommended hotels are featured, including Banyan Tree Ringha, Sanctuary Camelback Mountain, Borgo Santo Pietro and La Coquillade.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
For those with means enough and time, summer is the season for both leisurely journeys and languid afternoons spent in the company of a good book. One of the greatest accounts of an extended journey ever written was penned — literally, he wrote longhand — by Patrick Leigh Fermor, a travel writer relatively unknown in [...]
American Fashion Travel: Designers on the Go
“American Fashion Travel: Designers on the Go,” a colorful new photography book from Assouline, features the collective travel wisdom of dozens of contemporary fashion designers, from Tory Burch to Vera Wang. The format is simple: Members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America were invited to respond to a general travel questionnaire as well [...]
Some Thoughts on Hotel Room Magazines
Like most people, I’m constantly behind on my subscription magazines, so I often fill the side pocket of my computer bag with a few titles before heading for the airport. However, this doesn’t prevent me from being curious about the magazines I find when I check into a new hotel room. They are usually quickly [...]
In Praise of Il Pellicano
A sequestered manor house-resort in the hills overlooking the coast of the Argentario peninsula, this storied 50-room property has long been a favorite of mine. I was therefore delighted to see a new book, “Hotel Il Pellicano” (Rizzoli, 2011), a social, chronologic and pictorial history of a singular place. The story is told in three [...]
A Window on the Past: World Travel in 1955
As we’ve continued perusing “New Horizons: The World Guide to Travel,” a guidebook published by Pan American Airways in 1955, we couldn’t help but marvel at some of its descriptions. Numerous locations detailed in the book have fallen into relative obscurity, and many favorite countries have since been ravaged by wars or revolutions. Below you [...]
Masseria: The Italian Farmhouses of Puglia
Released this month by Rizzoli, “Masseria: The Italian Farmhouses of Puglia” is a striking book of photographs and essays dedicated to the ancient domestic buildings of southern Italy. The masserie originally served as farmhouses and way stations along the Appian Way, the famed military and commercial lifeline from Brindisi to Rome. Stark but captivating constructions [...]
Book Review: “Paris Was Ours”
The 19th-century American writer Thomas Gold Appleton famously said, “Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris,” and this is certainly the premise behind “Paris Was Ours,”an anthology of essays about the city by 32 writers, compiled by editor Penelope Rowlands. It struck me as the perfect read for a recent trip to Paris, so [...]
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