Travel Literature

Travel Features and Photos from Bay Area Travel Writers

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Travel Features and Photos: California’s National Parks, Monuments, Trails, Seashores and Historic Sites launched in December, 2015. Beautifully photographed and expertly written by members of BATW, this latest anthology explores and celebrates national parks and monuments in the Golden State — a tribute to the National Park Service on its 100th anniversary in 2016.

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Clips & Pics from Bay Area Travel Writers

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Clips & Pics is now available from Bay Area Travel Writers! The 98-page full color magazine-style publication features articles and photos by the organization’s members, who are professional travel writers and photographers. There’s a great mix: surf and mountains, gourmet golf and polka-dot bikinis, big-city touring and small-town fun, ghosts and graffiti, Beaujolais and burros, silence […]

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Lost, Kidnapped, Eaten Alive! True Stories from a Curious Traveler

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Purchase from these booksellers:       What happens when a practical midwestern gal sets off to explore the world? Laurie McAndish King’s travels seem innocent in the planning stage, but surprising adventure follows as she finds herself tracking lions on foot and without a gun in Botswana … attempting to eat a horse in […]

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Reclaiming the Apple: Poems from Afghanistan

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Amundsen’s images are fierce and soft, alluring and alarming. They ask nothing and everything from the reader. They are a poetic calling to action rooted in awakening and prayer. We are offered a journey for the price of this collection—we are given a moment in time to quiet our modern minds, to consider the deeper […]

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Wandering in Paris

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This collection won first place at the London Book Festival, and first honorable mention at the Paris Book Festival. They’re off on another adventure, this time to the City of Light. More than a city, Paris is actually a world of its own, and as these very imaginative literary wanderers discover, it’s a destination layered […]

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Vignettes & Postcards

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Vignettes & Postcards: Writings from The Evening Writing Workshop at Shakespeare & Company Bookstore has won awards from the New York Book Festival, International Book Awards, the Paris Book Festival, Indie Book Awards, and Foreword Review. Now in its third printing, this 114-page book showcases the work 22 writers. Vignettes & Postcards is an exquisite […]

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My Journey In and Out of Africa

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My Journey In and Out of Africa is a compelling story of love and loss, and Pauline Tusher’s call to return to East Africa, time after time. At the age of fourteen, Pauline lived at the foot of mount Kilimanjaro, dreaming of one day visiting the islands of the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. Then came […]

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Drone Baloney

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The ex-pat recluses hiding out on a Baja beachfront have one desire: They want to be left alone. And they are—until a mysterious government drone plummets into the desert next to their settlement. The high-tech air war that follows lights up the Mexican skies, and the carnage from that battle spills down on Gringa’s hermit-like […]

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Travel Stories from Around the Globe

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This juried collection of discoveries, insights, and adventures from the members of Bay Area Travel Writers has a foreword by Don George, Editor-at-Large for National Geographic Traveler. It will inspire readers to seek out and celebrate adventure—whether it’s in a far-off land or just down the road. Available in paperback and ebook formats. What people […]

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Wandering in Bali

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Spud Hilton, Travel Editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, says, “Like renting a frangipani-scented hut, kicking back and sharing the sensory wonderland that is Bali with a bunch of your fast friends — if your friends knew how to tell really good stories.”

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