With Few Reservations

Download or read book With Few Reservations written by I Rose Peter I Rose and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For those who love to read and love to travel, a new book by a modern-day Mark Twain."Forty-eight commentaries by the sociologist, photographer, and prize-winning travel journalist, Peter Rose. Included are accounts of excursions on land and sea and portraits of places and people from Cape Cod to Cape Horn. There are captivating photos, stories about playing gumshoe in Honolulu, tour guide in Amsterdam and taxonomist in China, descriptions of windjamming in Maine and on the Mediterranean, trekking in Tuscany, exploring Tierra del Fuego aboard the MV Via Australis and Panama by catamaran and many other adventures, and intriguing revelations about travel itself.Peter Rose offers lively takes on what a travel writer does ( Eats, Shoots, and Leaves ) and vivid descriptions of what it is like to enjoy Austrian Ambiance in the Green Mountains of Vermont and Italian Culture in a Swiss Canton. He helps us to understand the reason so many people are Stoop-Shouldered in Sanibel and have conversions in the Arizona desert.Come along with him on a Northwest Passage across Europe, or take a cruise in Liner Luxury. Visit many special venues and get behind the scenes in the travel business with a knowledgeable expert.