Book Reviews

Marilyn Jones recommends a guide whose contents match its name: an unusual look at New York's secrets

Marilyn reviews a new photo book focusing on Venice in early 2020, when streets and canals were deserted and the city's beauty shone.

Marilyn Jones shares tips on a guidebook series that goes well past the usual attractions.

Books that can inspire travel come in all sorts: Here's an unusual one that caught Marilyn Jones' attention.

  It may seem unusual for a travel writer to be interested in the abandoned, derelict and forgotten. I am usually telling my readers where to travel and what to visit when they get there. But Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences is such a...

  An ait (above) is a river island, splitting the main stream—and most often seen filling out three spaces in a crossword puzzle.   If you've either puzzled endlessly over that an other odd landscape and geology terms, or if you're in the habit of hiking or walking through the countryside, a new book by British landscape/topography expert Dominick Tyler may be the perfect gift.

Frommers' "Color Complete" France Guidebook 2015 is a great guidebook and a marked change from most of the later Wiley Frommer's Guides. The big differences I noticed are that the info is current and there are a lot of budget options.

I think of myself as a pretty experienced traveler, and my friends often come to me with questions. And, for several years I’ve been sharing advice and experience on online forums, and now TravelGumbo. But that doesn’t mean I don’t...

The Frommer guidebook line is up to 30 new titles in two new, easy-to-pocket formats at lower prices: Can they gain back sales lost while Google owned the brand? NEWS here, and a TravelGumbo REVIEW here.

Over the past past year, there’s been a lot of musing among travelers and in the travel industry about whether the day of the printed travel guide is over, in the face of vast stores of on-line information.