Travelogues and guidebooks

Retro Travel: Why Not?

by kim on May 18, 2010Share this post:

A few weeks ago on NPR’s All Things Considered, Andrei Codrescu shared his experience with a new iPhone app that makes books published before 1923, and no longer protected by copyright, available. After coming across a title from 1911 that explores prehistoric cave dwellings, subterranean churches, “thieves’ dens” and the like, Codrescu asked a good, [...]

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From Sleepy Hollow to the Alhambra

by kim on May 5, 2010Share this post:

After a few days visiting friends in Seville, I asked if they knew of a used bookstore in the city. My Spanish–to put it in technical terms–es muy horrible and I wanted to buy a few cheap books I could use to learn from once I got back home. My friends said they were told [...]

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