Travel Bibliography

Vacation and Travel

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  • General Travel Sites
  • Send a postcard to a friend
  • Planes, Trains, Buses, etc.
  • Maps at MapQuest
  • Travel Guides
  • Hotels, Inns, etc.
  • Armchair Travel/Travel Literature
  • Virtual Travel
  • Visit a Roadside Diner
  • Tennessee/Southeast travel
  • FestivalFinder Latest details on more than 1,300 music festivals in North America. Use the search feature to locate festivals by genre, date, location, performers or festival name.
  • Nightlife A-Z Check out 130 cities worldwide.
  • General Travel info

  • Yahoo Travel Sites Links to hundreds of travel sites.
  • Figure out Currency This handy site gives you a cheat sheet for foreign currency.
  • Rec. Travel Library
  • Atevo Travel.
  • Travelocity If you want a deal on an airfare, learn about discounts at this site as well as almost anything else you might need for traveling Take advantage of their fare watcher service

  • Travel Advisories
  • Vacations fish
  • Microsoft Expedia Travel Services
  • Travel.org The Directory for Travel.
  • Travelon Try this site for adventure.
  • Triple One Travel DirectoryUnique International Travel Resources "Off the Beaten Path"
  • Action trips Another site for the adventuresome with some useful information about passports, currency and travel advisories. This site has information on bicycling tours, climbing, photography, safaris, kayaking, diving, rafting, etc.
  • The Embassy Page
  • Travel Channel
  • Enter a destination at City Net and you are ready to explore information about your travel destination online.

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    Planes, Trains, Buses, etc.

  • British AirwaysCheck schedules and book flights to Europe, Africa, Far East.
  • For a list of airline home pages try Airlines from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

  • Hotel & Travel on the Net Look for airline and airport information here as well as many other travel services.
  • Don't like to fly, try the train Amtrak
  • Greyhound
  • For a site with timetables for trains, subways, and other public transportation throughout the world visit Railroad related Sites by Robert Bowdidge. It is a no frills site with excellent information and links.

  • Are you driving and need a map, Atevo Local Guide will give you driving directions whether it's across town or across states. Includes Zoomable maps and a Business directory.

  • Action Trips-Walking ToursPick the place and comfort level at this site for walking tours throughout the world.
  • Euro-bike and Walking tours

    For a change of pace, try reading this book of essays about walking.
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    The art of walking / edited by Edwin Valentine Mitchell. Great Neck, N.Y. : Core Collection Books, 1978.

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    In our grandmother's footsteps : a walking tour of Lon / Jennifer Clarke ; photographs by Joanna Parkin. 1st American ed. New York : Atheneum, 1986, c1984.

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    Bicycling Middle Tennessee : a guide to scenic bicycle rides in Nashville's countryside / Ann Richards & Glen Wanner ; [inside photography by Ann Richards, Glen Wanner ; maps by TN Dept. of Transportation and KY Dept. of Transportation, adapted by Ann Richards, Glen Wanner]. Nashville : Pennywell Press, c1993.

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    Bicycling across America : a guide to the best route, plus a how-to section for any bike tour / Robert Winning. 1st ed. Berkeley : Wilderness Press, 1988.

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    Travel Guides

  • Lonely Planet Travel Guides
  • Guidebook to ItalyOver 600 images of Italy plus lots of information.
  • Fodor's Travel Guides A description of all the available Fodor Guides.
    The library has a few guides, but for more up-to-date information, you will need a current guide. Check your local public library for more current editions, or buy yourself a copy that you can carry with you.

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    Fodor's Montreal & Quebec City / 1991

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    Fodor's Canada. 1995

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    Fodor's Civil War sites.

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    Fodor's Egypt.

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    Fodor's 96 Florida / [editor: Andrea E. Lehman]. New York : Fodor's Travel Publications, c1995.

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    Fodor's Holland. 1992

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    Fodor's Ireland. 1992

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    Applefield, David. Paris inside out : the insider's guide for visitors, residents, professionals & students on life in Paris / David Applefield.

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    Fodor's Scandinavia. 1991

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    Fodor's South. 1994

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    Fodor's Turkey 1991

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    Fodor's USA. 1993

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    A tour guide to the Old West / Alice Cromie. 2nd ed., rev. and updated. Nashville, Tenn. : Rutledge Hill Press, c1990.

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    Off the beaten path : a guide to more than 1,000 scenic and interesting places still uncrowded and inviting. Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, c1987.

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    Great American vacations for travelers with disabilities. New York : Fodor's Travel Publications, c1994-

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    1996 Mobil travel guide, Southwest and South Central : Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas. New York, NY : Fodor's Travel Publications, c1996.

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    Cheek, Larry. Arizona / Lawrence W. Cheek ; photography by Michael Freeman. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA : Compass American Guides, c1993.

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    Canadian Rockies whitewater : a river guide for canoeists, kayakers, and rafters / Stuart Smith. Jasper, Alta. : Headwaters Press, 1995.

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    A birder's guide to coastal North Carolina / John O. Fussell, III. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1994.

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    The Cambridge guide to the museums of Europe / Kenneth Hudson and Ann Nicholls. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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    City profiles USA : a traveler's guide to major US cities. Detroit, Mich. : Omnigraphics, c1996-

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    Dinosaur safari guide : tracking North America's prehistoric past : complete descriptions and directio for over 170 dinosaur (and other prehistoric creature sites, museums, fossil exhibits, tracksites, and parks in the United States and Canada / Vincenzo Costa. Stillwater MN, U.S.A. : Voyageur Press, c1994.

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    The South American handbook. Bath, Eng. [etc.] Trade & Travel Publications ltd. [etc.] [Chicago, Distributed in the United States of America by Rand McNally]

    REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 917.3 C73 1996/97
    The Complete guide to America's national parks : the official visitor's guide of the National Park Foundation.

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    Fodor's gay guide to the USA / by Andrew Collins. 1st ed. New York : Fodor's Travel Publications : Distributed by Random House, c1996.

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    The National parks, index / produced by the Office of Public Affairs, and the Division of Publications, U.S. Department of the Interior.

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    Alternative travel directory. Amherst, Mass. : Transitions Abroad Pub., 1995

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    Craighead's international business, travel, and relocation guide to ... countries. Detroit : Gale Research Inc., c1994-5

    Although this book is not current, it has useful information for those interested in visiting archaeological sites. MAIN COLLECTION 970.1 F73a 1983
    America's ancient treasures : a guide to archaeological sites and museums in the United States and Canada / Franklin Folsom and Mary Elting Folsom ; illustrations by Rachel Folsom. 3rd rev., enl. ed. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1983.

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    North American Indian landmarks : a traveler's guide / by George Cantor ; foreword by Suzan Shown-Harjo. Detroit : Visible Ink Press, c1993.

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    Historic landmarks of Black America / by George Cantor ; foreword by Robert L. Harris, Jr. Detroit : Gale Research, c1991.

    Visit the Elderhostel home page. Elderhostel is an educational adventure for older adults looking for something different. The later years should be a time for new beginnings, opportunities and challenges. Elderhostel offers you a way to keep expanding your horizons with people who are interested in the same things you are.

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    The music lover's guide to Europe : a compendium of festivals, concerts, and opera / Roberta Gottesman, editor ; Catherine Sentman, associate editor. New York : Wiley, c1992.

    REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 378.3 F49
    Financial aid for research and creative activities abroad. San Carlos, Calif. : Reference Service Press, 1992- "A list of scholarships, fellowships, loans, grants, awards, and internships for research and creative activities abroad; an annotated bibliography of financial aid directories; and a set of five indexes: title, organization, geographic, subject, and deadline."

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    Walk through the heavens : a guide to stars and constellations and their legends / Milton D. Heifetz, Wil Tirion. Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

    REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 370.196 G94
    The guide to academic travel. 1993

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    Hotels, Inns, etc.


    Where to stay while your're away. The list below includes some titles in the Reference department and some Internet sites.

  • Reservations allows you to book hotels online.

  • REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 647.94 Of2n OAG business travel planner : the official guide to lodging and travel related services. North American ed. Official Airline Guides, 1996-97 Or visit the web site and find the information online at OAG Online

  • REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 917.304 R22
    Reader's Digest travel guide USA.1994

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    Rundback, Betty R. Bed & breakfast U.S.A. 1994 / by Betty Revits Rundback ; updated by Peggy Ackerman ; assisted by Leslie Jay and Michael Ackerman. New York : Plume, c1994.

  • Check out Inns at the Bed and Breakfast Inns of North America
  • Visit The Register at TravelAssist which lists over 750 Bed and Breakfast inns in the U.S.

  • Many of the hotel chains have their own web sites. Visit the Hilton,the Ramada,or the Best Western

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    Armchair Travel

    Armchair travel is convenient, inexpensive, and allows you to visit your destination as it is today, and as it existed in the past. The books below are just a sampling of the variety of titles available in travel literature at the MTSU library. To locate travel literature about a particular country or area, search the online catalog using the name of the country with travel and description.
    Example: Catalog=> te Sweden travel and description

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    The Traveler's reading guide : ready-made reading lists for the armchair traveler / Maggy Simony, editor. New York : Facts on File, c1993.

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    Abroad : British literary traveling between the Wars / Paul Fussell. New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.

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    The Norton book of travel / edited by Paul Fussell. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c1987.

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    The road from the past : traveling through history in France / Ina Caro. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c1994.

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    A literary tour guide to England and Scotland / by Emilie C. Harting. New York : Morrow, 1976, c1975.

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    A literary tour guide to the United States : South and Southwest / by Rita Stein. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c1979.

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    A TOUR OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE [videorecording] / City Productions, Inc. 1994 1 videocassette (45 min.) An inside view of Tennessee's capital city, visiting historic landmarks and tourist attractions.

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    English castles : a guide by counties / Adrian Pettifer. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 1995.

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    Olds, Elizabeth Fagg. Women of the four winds / Elizabeth Fagg Olds. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1985. Are you ready to be impressed? This book is a very readable account of the explorations of four different women on four continents.

    The library has several books by veteran traveller and writer, Paul Theroux. Try reading,
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    Riding the iron rooster : by train through China / Paul Theroux. New York : Putnam's, c1988.

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    The kingdom by the sea : a journey around Great Britain / Paul Theroux. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

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    Greetings from Kentucky : a post card tour, 1900-1950 / Wade Hall. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1994.
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    Victorian women travel writers in Africa / by Catherine Barnes Stevenson. Boston : Twayne Publishers, c1982.

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    The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy / Douglas Adams. 1st American ed. New York : Harmony Books, 1980, c1979.

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    Passionate pilgrims : English travelers to the world of the desert Arabs / James C. Simmons. New York : W. Morrow, c1987.

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    The Oregon Trail, with an introd. by Mark Van Doren, illus. by James Daugherty. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1959]
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    Red hills and cotton, an upcountry memory. With a biographical sketch by Wright Bryan. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1960.

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    Going abroad : European travel in nineteenth-century American culture / William W. Stowe. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994.

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    Santa Cow Studios tour / by Cooper Edens ; illustrated by Daniel Lane. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995. On a boring New Year's Day, the Santa Cows whisk the Schwartz family away on a tour of the Santa Cow Movie Studios, complete with screenings of such famous films as "Cowsablanca" and "It's an Udderful Life."

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    Women's voices on Africa : a century of travel writings / Patricia W. Romero, editor. New York : M. Wiener Pub., 1992.

    Armchair Travel A list of travel books from the bookstore, A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books.

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    Virtual Travel

  • Virtual Field Trips A list from Yahoo of online field trips.
  • Ongoing TraveloguesDay to Day information on trips and expeditions.
  • For tourist information about France visit Lokace Information is in French.
  • Virtual Travel Agency
  • Travel "Virtually" Anywhere

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    Tennessee/Southeast Travel

  • Official/Un-Official Guide to the Bluff City, Memphis
  • Tennessee Sounds Good to Me State of Tennessee Web Site.
  • Tennessee Aquarium Tour the Aquarium.
  • Memphis, Memphis
  • InnGetaways A Guide to Inns in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina.
  • Tennessee Walking Horse
  • Tennessee State Parks
  • YeehawNashville Net
  • Nashville Links
  • Nasvhille's Gay Web
  • Nashville Sports Links
  • KorrnetKnoxville/Oak Ridge Regional Network
  • Great Smoky Mountains Park
  • Ultimate Guide to the Smoky Mountains
  • Pigeon Forge
  • Gatlinburg Home Page

    REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 917.5 B45a
    Away for the weekend, Southeast : great getaways for every season in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee / Eleanor Berman. 1st ed. New York : Crown Trade Paperbacks, c1994.

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    Shaker heritage guidebook : exploring the historic sites, museums & collections : where to go, what to see, how to get there / Stuart Murray. 1st ed. Spencertown, N.Y. : Golden Hill Press, 1994.

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    Hiking the Big South Fork / Brenda D. Coleman and Jo Anna Smith. 2nd ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1993.
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    Southern rock : a climber's guide to the South / by Chris Hall ; photography and assistance by Chris Pitman. Charlotte : Fast & McMillan, 1981.

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    The historic Cumberland Plateau : an explorer's guide / Russ Manning. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1993.
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    The trails of Virginia : hiking the Old Dominion / Allen de Hart. New and rev. ed. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995.

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    Natural wonders of Tennessee : a guide to parks, preserves, & wild places / Ardi Lawrence and H. Lea Lawrence ; illustrated by Harriet Corbett. Castine, Me. : Country Roads Press, c1994.

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    The Natchez Trace : a pictorial history / James A. Crutchfield. Nashville, Tenn. : Rutledge Hill Press, c1985.

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    Touring the East Tennessee backroads / Carolyn Sakowski. Winston-Salem, N.C. : J.F. Blair, c1993.

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    Dining in historic Tennessee : a restaurant guide with recipes / by Marty Godbey ; illustration by James Asher. Kuttawa, Ky. : McClanahan, c1988.

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    Memphis, an architectural guide / Eugene J. Johnson and Robert D. Russell, Jr. ; maps by Thomas Nath 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1990.

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    A geologic trip across Tennessee by Interstate 40 / Harry L. Moore. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1994.

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    Larry Munson's fishing guide to Tennessee waters / [Larry Munson]. Nashville, TN : Project Twenty-one, 1965.

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    Tennessee's historic landscapes : a traveler's guide / Carroll Van West. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1995.

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    Two dozen fishin' holes : a guide to middle Tennessee / Vernon Summerlin. Nashville, Tenn. : Rutledge Hill Press, c1992.

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    Tennessee, a guide to the state. The WPA guide to Tennessee / compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the state of Tennessee ; with a new introduction by Jerrold Hirsch and a foreword by Wilma Dykeman. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1986.


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