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A Conversation with Mike Gerrard

Published on January 2, 2011 By Kristin

Mike Gerrard’s newest essay collection, Snakes Alive, covers an evocative ensemble of award-winning travel experiences:  pick it up and you might flip to his account of eating snake in China, his experience taking a taxi ride through Belfast, or his tale of trekking through the Sinai Desert on a camel. Whether he’s putting together an [...]

Screw the Gatekeepers

Published on December 5, 2010 By Tim

I grabbed this screenshot from the Amazon Kindle store last week when looking at the top-100 bestselling travel reference books. First of all, thanks to everyone who has ever bought a Kindle copy of The World’s Cheapest Destinations! (Or for that matter, a paper one or PDF one or iBookstore one). For writers, there’s a [...]