{"id":640,"date":"2010-11-21T19:07:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T00:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=640"},"modified":"2010-11-21T19:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T00:07:39","slug":"travel-books-to-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/640\/books\/travel-books-to-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel books to note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gertrude Bell. <em>The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914.<\/em> Edited by Rosemary O&#8217;Brien. Syracuse University Press. 0815606729<\/p>\n<p>Janet Starkey and Okasha El Daly, eds. <em>Desert Travellers: From Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence.<\/em> University of Durham. 0953970000<\/p>\n<p>Dauril Alden. <em>Charles R. Boxer: An uncommon life: Soldier, historian, teacher, collector, traveller.<\/em> Lisbon: Fundacao Oriente. 9727850235<br \/>\n&#8211; Boxer (1904-2000) was a polymath whose life could be made into a book. And a great romance at the heart of it as well with the American Emily Hahn. Emily Hahn herself would make a fine biography. A note to myself is to search for her writings in the New Yorker and her book China To Me.<\/p>\n<p>Lafcadio Hearn. <em>Two Years in the French West Indies.<\/em> Oxford. 1902669177<\/p>\n<p>Isabella Tree. <em>Sliced Iguana: Travels in Unknown Mexico.<\/em> Hamish Hamilton. 024114051X<br \/>\n&#8211; this title got quite a good review in TLS (2001-07-27).<\/p>\n<p>Mary Ashley Townsend. <em>Here and There in Mexico.<\/em> Ed. Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Unviersity Press of Alabama. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gertrude Bell. The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914. Edited by Rosemary O&#8217;Brien. Syracuse University Press. 0815606729 Janet Starkey and Okasha El Daly, eds. Desert Travellers: From Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence. University of Durham. 0953970000 Dauril Alden. Charles R. Boxer: An uncommon life: Soldier, historian, teacher, collector, traveller. Lisbon: Fundacao Oriente. 9727850235 &#8211; Boxer (1904-2000) was a polymath <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/640\/books\/travel-books-to-note\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-travel-literature","category-14-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}