| More travel books for a bright holiday | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 12:48:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | Running out of ideas as to what to get Aunt Sally or brother Tom as the season of gift-giving fast approaches? Here are some suggested travel books that can help finish off your shopping chores and put a smile on the face of the lucky recipients. More travel books for a bright holiday By Dave Zuchowski NEW CASTLE NEWS (NEW CASTLE, Pa.) NEW CASTLE, Pa. — Running out of ideas as to what to get Aunt Sally or brother Tom as the season of gift-giving fast approaches? Here are some suggested travel books that can help finish off your shopping chores and put a smile on the face of the lucky recipients. With Lonely Planet Publications' 412-page, hard cover edition of "The Cities Book: A Journey through the Best Cities in the World," you can take a pictorial expedition through 200 of the world's greatest urban areas.... | |
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| | | On The Long Road To Making Time Travel A Future Reality | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:48:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | Since 2001, when he delivered a paper on using lasers to manipulate space and time, Ronald Mallett has been one of the leading figures in the theory of time travel. Though time travel has been a lifelong goal for Mallett, a 61-year-old theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, it took him a while to tell his colleagues. He eventually told a fellow physicist in 1998. ("You have to remember that I was a tenured physics professor by this time, so I didn't worry about it getting back to my department," he says.) His friend encouraged him to develop his ideas, and a few years later, Mallett made headlines around the world. .... | |
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| | | A.M.Stir | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 2:47:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | Bad books bore me. But good books? Can't put them down. I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road in one night, wrapping up at 2:30 a.m. The story of an unnamed father and son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic hell, it's the end of the world and you won't feel fine. But what a read! Then on to something completely different: One Train Later, the fantastic, funny autobiography of Andy Summers, former guitarist for The Police. He loves guitars and music, and is at least as talented a writer as guitarist. Here he is, on the subject of his first teen band: "Five of us decide to call ourselves the Midnighters, although none of us has ever been allowed to stay up past eleven." POPPIN' FRESH Scary Mary When I was a kid, I was terrified of Mary Poppins. As in seriously freaky, get-out-of-my-brain, devil-woman scared.... | |
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| | | Hudson Booksellers Announces the Best Books of 2006 | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 2:47:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | Hudson Booksellers, a brand unit of travel retailer Hudson Group, has announced its list of the best books published in 2006. Hudson operates 66 full-service bookstores and sells books in over 400 Hudson News newsstands throughout North America. Book sales were close to $1 million last year. A panel of the company's book buyers selected the Hudson Booksellers' Best Books of 2006. Books were chosen for their quality of writing, storyline, and sales performance. Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier was chosen as the best book of the year. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060705/NYW034LOGO ) "The list was created to help airport travelers make quick, educated buying decisions during the holiday season," said Sara Hinckley, vice president, Book Buying & Promotions. "Ten fiction and ten nonfiction titles were selected.... | |
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| | | Get ready for overseas travel with these tips | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:47:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | I'm about to leave on an international trip -- some work (to see my employee in Dublin) and some vacation (10 days in Italy, including a cooking course in Tuscany -- yes, you can envy me now). To get ready for this trip, I've spent a lot of time getting up-to-date on the latest travel regulations and getting reacquainted with or finding good travel-related Web sites. From a business perspective, I've had the often-amusing experience of trying to figure out why some information is included on some foreign Web sites. Here, for instance, is the Italian national train service site glowingly describing the added features of their best train: "The first-class service includes a welcome drink and a daily paper on the morning trains. A recently reviewed cleaning service operates on the trains using ad hoc cleaning personnel." Hmmm .... | |
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| | | Debuting writer dances with dragons | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:47:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | Imagine the Napoleonic Wars fought with squadrons of dragons. That's the inspirational spark for author Naomi Novik's thrilling trio of books, led by British naval captain turned dragon aviator Capt. Will Laurence and his intelligent dragon Temeraire. Novik combined her interest in science fiction and fantasy, Jane Austen and the Napoleonic into a happy marriage that produced her first published works. Del Rey Books released all three this spring: "His Majesty's Dragon," "Throne of Jade" and "Black Powder War." Filmmaker Peter Jackson, who helmed "The Lord of the Rings" movies, has optioned the series to be made into films. As the first book begins, Laurence is serving aboard the HMS Reliant when it overtakes a French ship bearing an unhatched dragon's egg.... | |
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| | | OFF THE BEATEN PATH Not So Lonely Planet Tony and Maureen ... | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:48:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | The rumors, it seems, have been circulating for years. And while Wheeler, founder, along with wife and travel partner Maureen, of Lonely Planet Publications -- the largest travel guidebook publisher in the world today -- vehemently denies them, it isn't hard to believe that a guy with a lust for fast cars who has been razored and nearly robbed in Peru, held down crocs (OK, they were babies) in Papua New Guinea and hurtled along twisting remnants of roads on a motorcycle held together with bits of bamboo and wire, has managed to kick the frame somewhere along the way. Except that he's easy to spot and shows up all over the world. I saw him last in Australia, at home in an elegant Melbourne suburb on the banks of the Yarra River, not far from the company's headquarters. A thin man, very fit, and -- as the British would say -- very "keen" on travel, Wheeler, who can't sit still for a minute and appears to have the attention span of a gnat, has built a publishing empire on insight, action and an irresistible urge to flee the humdrum.... | |
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| | | Globally Renowned Experts, Davis, Pearl, Robinson & Fagan, Among 70+ Experts to Address Oct. 19-21 Adventure Travel | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 10:47:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | Adventure Travel World Summit -- Joining more than 70 adventure travel pioneers and experts from five continents, four world-renowned experts representing the fields of cultural anthropology, environmental and wildlife conservation, work-life balance, and archaeology are set to address approximately 400 adventure travel business leaders converging in Seattle for the second annual, trade only, Adventure Travel World Summit in Seattle, October 19-21. Global warming, poverty alleviation, and cultural conservation headline, while strategic insights, best business practices and practical tools sessions complete the 2006 Adventure Travel World Summit (ATWS). Themed, "Today's Tools for Tomorrow's Adventures," summit keynote addresses include: -- Wade Davis, anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, opens the ATWS with "Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures." From his work in Peru to Borneo, Tibet to the Arctic, Davis sees biological crisis, indicated by a loss of species, in addition to a cultural crisis as indigenous cultures and languages vanish.... | |
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| | | VTS becomes Directravel to highlight Web services | | Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:47:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | VTS Travel Enterprises has a new name and new tools for corporate travel managers. President Patrick Fragale said Monday that the Mahwah-based company adopted the zippier Directravel moniker to reflect a more Web-centric strategy that includes the rollout of additional online corporate travel services. .... | |
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| | | I-57 Crash Causes Labor Day Travel Delays | | Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 12:49:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | Union County - Bent and broken guard rails, tire marks,and grooves in the pavement tell the story of a semi's collision course that left a trail of damage the length of a football field on Interstate 57. Police say just after midnight a semi truck hauling 50-thousand pounds of bananas for some unknown reason swerved off the roadway and hit an interstate guardrail just south of the Anna exit on Interstate 57. The semi smashed along a concrete bridge eventually coming to rest on its side. "The truck's destroyed the trailer's destroyed, it's a mess," said Illinois State Police Lt. Mike Hooks. The driver had some minor injuries, but the crash closed part of Interstate 57 just as Labor Day weekend traffic began. Now Illinois State Police are looking at not only the crash scene but also a paper trail to learn why this truck lost control.... | |
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