Several years ago at a book sale in a small and pretty town in Austria, I bought a stack of Baedeker’s red guidebooks. I have four of these fragile, red cloth bound little volumes. I also bought a Flaxman Hand-Book of English and German Conversation. The Flaxman’s is from 1907, the Baedeker’s are also from …
Well, I’d forgotten all about that. But in yesterday’s mail, I got two copies of Travellers Vancouver & British Columbia. The cover credit still goes to the original writer but whaddaya know? That’s my name on the flyleaf. And somehow, it’s even more fun to flip through the images and say, “Hey, I took that …
In December, I wrote my first guidebook, a sunbreak travelers guide to Hawaii. At the end of March, while the proofs were in production, Aloha Airlines went bankrupt. A few days later, Molokai Ranch announced their closure at the end of April. Both Aloha Air and Molokai Ranch are listed in my guidebook. I emailed …