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Travel Books That Inspire Me

Our Travel Columnist reveals personal connections to provocative travel lit.

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Jennifer Silva Redmond
Apr 09, 2025
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Jenny in front of the New York City Library, 1985.

Books and traveling have always been closely associated in my mind. Reading is a sort of bodiless travel that I latched on to early in my life. Whenever I was somewhere I didn’t want to be, whether it was trapped in my room on a rainy day or stuck in a boring class, I could always count on a book to tran…

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Author of Honeymoon at Sea, freelance book editor, writing instructor, and sailor.
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