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That said, my return to Gracanica was not without some cool Papal loot including a guidebook to Catholicism in Bosnian, a bona fide Bosnian flag and a bright yellow hat decorated with pictures of the Pope. Sunny as it was, I thought about wearing this hat into Gracanica before realizing the emblem would not likely sit well in a town filled with minarets, where vandalizing the old Orthodox Church is a favorite area hobby. The Pope had come on a mission of reconciliation and peace. What I’d seen were fervored Catholic Bosnians waving Croatian flags, a great...
...travel agency catering to cargo cultists is at freighterworld.com. You can reach the Egon Oldendorff line directly, at www.oldendorff.com. If you fancy French cuisine, CMA CGM is a major, French-owned freighter line operating transpacific routes, at www.cma-cgm.com. If you're a pre-cyber holdout, Cadogan Guides publishes a guidebook called Travel by Cargo Ship, by Hugo Verlomme...
...Thailand. He has worked in a boatyard in Turkey and bartended in Portugal. He has roamed Egypt, Morocco and New Guinea. Yet this seasoned traveler--who globe-trotted for a decade before settling (at least for now) in New York City as a corporate lawyer--rarely takes a guidebook along. "As soon as a place gets listed," he explains, "everybody goes there. The quality drops, and it is hard...
...exclusive Nota Bene series (NB Publishing) is the splashiest?and snootiest?entry in the guidebook field. Available by subscription at a cost of $300 for 10 issues, the skinny, sorbet-colored "destination reviews" are devoted to seeking out the hippest hotels, the trendiest bars and the hottest restaurants in places from Courchevel to Marrakech. Reviewers tell you not only what to order on the menu but also the right table to sit at. "We endure the duds so you don't have to," promise the authors in the Paris issue. "Read NB assiduously and your travel itinerary will consist...
...Jakarta, plugged in Less a guidebook than an alphabet book of Indonesia's capital, Daniel Ziv's Jakarta Inside Out is a curious hybrid that will have a hard time finding a place on bookstore shelves. Which is a pity. The slim volume is graced with striking photographs of city life, but the paperback format and irreverent, witty observations keep it firmly out of the coffee-table book genre. The 60-odd short essays on subjects ranging from the ubiquitous Asongan (vendors who ply their wares through the city's equally ubiquitous traffic jams), to bules (resident foreigners), nonkong...