Great Travels Book Club
We are excited to introduce our Great Travels Book Club, which is designed as a fun way to stay connected to a community of like-minded souls who happen to love travel—or love to read travel-oriented books, just as much as you do.
In reality, many people do not get to travel as much as they would like, for practical, logistical, or health reasons, but can still get a wonderful sense of the wider world as an avid armchair traveler. And that is absolutely fine, too – so please know that if you happen to be in that category, you are actually in very good company!
However much you have actually traveled, then – whether you have been to two, ten, twenty, or a hundred and twenty countries around the world – and are now in the midst of planning your next most exciting adventure – or if you have mostly stayed close to home and enjoyed what’s close by your own area — our travel book-loving community is meant for you to partake of and participate in.
Great travel writing truly abounds, these days, too, and takes many forms, including: Travel reviews and blogs; non-fiction travel guidebooks that focus on a particular city, state, region, or whole country; travel-themed memoirs and personal essays; as well as fictional stories, short or novel-length, that have travel as a major theme, and where the setting of the characters is an enormously important element.
The Great Travels Book Club is open to everyone who enjoys the ever-expanding array of books, magazines, and more, that encompass the endlessly interesting world of travel writing.
How the Book Club Works:
The GREAT TRAVELS BOOK CLUB officially debuts in the fall of 2024 and our goal is to bring your attention to some great travel books – some of which will be old favorites, by established authors, that may have been written awhile ago – and others that are more recent, or brand new to the market, perhaps even by talented first-time authors.
EACH MONTH we will feature a new recommended travel-themed book. We will post the selection at the beginning of each month, which will be either a fiction or non- fiction title that we especially like and enjoy, in the hope that you will, too.
WE ENCOURAGE YOU to get a copy and read it for yourself. And whether you order it from a local bookstore, obtain it from your town library, or use an online source of your choice to order your copy, is entirely up to you.
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS will be featured at the end of every month, with the author of the selected book. At times the interview will be presented here online just in a readable form, of questions to the author, along with their answers. At other times we will offer a Zoom-based experience, where you will be able to send in questions ahead of time that the author will then be able to answer. And you will be able to join in, and watch and listen as the talk is presented live, by signing up to receive your Zoom link ahead of time. Alternatively, at other times, we will create a Great Travels Book Club podcast for our author interview, so that you can listen anytime at your convenience.
BECOME A MEMBER of the Great Travels Book Club, by filling out the form below. Please note, too, that by the fall of 2023, we will also be offering the option of a special GOLD Great Travels Book Club membership, in which case for a small yearly fee you will receive special promotions, discounts on our Great Travels Writing Journals, and other items that we sell here, and notices about special events we are offering or participating in.
“The world is a BOOK, and those
who don’t TRAVEL read only a page…”
St. Augustine