Readers

PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
BOSTON 2006

Readers' Maps:

Blending Fiction and Nonfiction Readers' Advisory
Through Reading Itineraries

 

the armchair traveler...

 

 

 

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa by Ann Jones

Blue Latitude: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horowitz

Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux

Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare

 

 

Where to go next?

 

 

Minaret by Leila Aboulela

Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot

The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

The Armchair Traveler

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Presented by

Nancy Pearl, Author/Speaker; Retired
Cathleen Towey, Library Development Specialist, Gold Coast Library
Neal Wyatt, Collection Management Senior Librarian, Chesterfield County Public Library