Atlantica - 01.12.2006, Síða 28

Atlantica - 01.12.2006, Síða 28
26 AT L A N T I CA on the fly TEMPERATURES ARE DROPPING; THE DAYS ARE GETTING COLDER. TIME TO CURL UP WITH A GOOD STACK OF BOOKS ABOUT SOME FARAWAY PLACES. Marie Javins quit her job in 2001 to spend one year traveling around the world overland, blogging all the way on her website mariesworldtour.com. Four months of her trip were spent journeying from Cape Town to Cairo. Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik chronicles this trip, from encountering gorillas with bad gas in Uganda to surviving a serious car accident in Ethiopia. Javins’ story moves at a far brisker pace than the public transportation she describes. She is refreshingly candid about her motivations for the trip and feelings during it, including, as a New Yorker, her reactions to being far afield on September 11 that year. When you finish Dik-Dik, you’ll want to head straight to the website to read about the rest of her around-the-world adventure – or even book a ticket yourself. Former Seychelles President Sir James Mancham did not like Dr. Jonathan Kaplan. According to Kaplan, Mancham accused the doctor of being a spy and threatened to make him “disappear”, all thanks to a misunderstanding over a note left for a journalist both had a romantic interest in. Kaplan’s unexpected experience in the Seychelles is only one of several adventures he recounts in Contact Wounds, his memoir of studying medicine and putting it to practice everywhere from war zones around the world to the sets of British medical dramas. The author begins his tale in apartheid South Africa, and writes about his medical development on an Israeli kibbutz, in the Angolan Civil War and on multiple occasions in Iraq. The book is not for the squeamish, laying bare all the gory anatomical details of Kaplan’s work, but for everyone else, it’s a lyrically written memoir that gives an international perspective of the medical profession. The City of London need not only be famous for its contribution to global commerce. As chef Peter Gladwin writes in his new book, “The City is a catacomb of dining rooms, bars, clubs, restaurants and venues all dedicated to providing the hospitality, cuisine and beverages required to oil the wheels of commerce and enable our great metropolis to run smoothly.” The City of London Cook Book offers a glimpse into the culinary world of this famous square mile. Even better, it was produced for the Lord Mayor of London’s annual charity appeal, and proceeds from book sales will go to the Treloar Trust for physically disabled children. With its pale blue cover and minimalist illustrations, Gladwin’s cookbook seems part guide to the City of London and its traditions and quirks. Many of the book’s recipes were donated by famous Brits, including Prime Minister Tony Blair. londoncookbook.com Travel writer Tim Moore likes to use bizarre journeys as the flesh for his humorous books. He traveled around Spain on a donkey in Spanish Steps (appropriately subtitled One Man and his Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago) and followed the UK’s Monopoly board addresses in Do Not Pass Go. Moore’s latest offering centers on an event dear to all European hearts, but alien to many others: the Eurovision Song Contest. He travels Europe to visit the artists and nations who must bear the enduring humiliation of ending the contest with the dreaded conclusion of nul points. From Norway to Turkey, including a glorious chapter on Iceland’s own shameful nul points history, this book humorously sheds light onto what Moore describes as “an evening of unfailingly hilarious schadenfreude” and the characters that make it that way. THE MEMOIR Contact Wounds: by Jonathan Kaplan. THE CULINARY DESTINATION The City of London Cook Book, by Peter Gladwin. THE EUROPEAN TRADITION Nul Points, by Tim Moore. COMPILED BY ELIZA REID. THE ADVENTURE Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik: One Woman’s Solo Misadventures Across Africa, by Marie Javins. GETTING AROUND Travel reading to take you from A to Z. 009 airmail Atlantica 606.indd 26 20.10.2006 9:42:26
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