<p> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">We review and share excerpts from the travel books we've been reading. Plus we and write the odd self-congratulatory piece of fluff to pump up our fragile egos.</span></span></span></p> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:44:43 EST http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms.php?xcmscategoryid=8 Travel Book Reviews & Site News Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:29:00 +1100 <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Our robot monkey army has been working hard behind the scenes to improve our site. As most of our customers prefer to checkout without creating an account, we've </span><span style="font-size: 16px; ">decided to remove user accounts altogether.</span><br /> </span></p> <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size: 16px; ">This means no more passwords, logins, catchpas and all that annoying inter-gunk. Yay! This allows us to simplify the checkout process, and also reduces our administration and server load which helps us keep our prices down.</span></span></p> <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Apologies to any folks who like having an account and using the wishlist thingy. Somehow we'll find a way to blame it on the government.</span></span></p> http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=60&xcmsrss=1 Travel Book Reviews & Site News Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:35:49 +1100 <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">True stories by Peter Hessler, Gretel Ehrlich, Mark Salzman, Tim Ward, Stephanie Elizondo, Zhang Zianliang, John Krich and many more...</span></span></span></p> http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=58&xcmsrss=1 Travel Book Reviews & Site News Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:19:30 +1100 <p> <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">For our upcoming trip we're reading everything to do with China. One of the first travel books we picked off the shelf to read was Red Dust by Ma Jian. This book has been referenced in other travel books we've read and has been a popular, steady seller over the years.</span></span></span></p> http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=56&xcmsrss=1 Travel Book Reviews & Site News Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:00:55 +1000 <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">A warm, funny and informative look at life in Singapore by an English expat.</span></span></span></p> http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=54&xcmsrss=1 Travel Book Reviews & Site News Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:33:05 +1000 <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">A finely crafted travel memoir and exploration of Manga and Japanese culture by one of Australia's finest novelists.</span></span></span></p> http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=52&xcmsrss=1 Travel Book Reviews & Site News Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:06:41 +1000 <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">An amazing collection of interviews from citizens of the former East Germany.</span></span></span></p> http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=53&xcmsrss=1 Travel Book Reviews & Site News Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:17:25 +1000 <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Ben Gilmour travels to Pakistan to make a film illegally in the remote and very dangerous wild west of Pakistan. An incredible book, one of my all-time favourite books of any genre.</span></span></span></p> http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=51&xcmsrss=1 Travel Book Reviews & Site News Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:20:22 +1100 <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Antarctica on a Plate is a great travel and foodie book, one of my favourites. Author Alexa Thomson takes the plunge to be the cook for a camp in Antarctica. </span></span></span></p> http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=50&xcmsrss=1 Travel Book Reviews & Site News Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:23:54 +1100 <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">In Snake Fang Salad photographer Greg Elms travels China photographing food for Lonely Planet. As an obsessed food blogger and travel nerd this is my dream job, or so I thought...</span></span></span></p> http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=48&xcmsrss=1 Travel Book Reviews & Site News Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:18:59 +1100 <p> <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Mai Pen Rai is a wonderful memoir of author Carol Hollinger's expat life in Bangkok in the 1960's. A travel classic.</span></span></span></p> http://www.usedtravelbooks.com.au/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=49&xcmsrss=1