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February 02, 2006
"San Francisco: The Unknown City" is a Bestseller!
You can't imagine how happy I was yesterday when I received the Get Lost Travel Books newsletter. Lee Azus, the owner, first talked about a very interesting article that ran in Publisher Weekly about the history and evolution of the travel guidebook. He then announced the bestselling guidebooks of 2005. And guess what? I know, the title of this blog entry ruined the surprise but I'll tell you again anyway, "San Francisco: The Unknown City" (the book Josh and I wrote) came in as #3 in the bestselling guidebooks of 2005!
Here's the list:
"Mundane Journeys," followed by "San Francisco’s Best Dive Bars," "San Francisco: the Unknown City" and "Lonely Planet Costa Rica, 6th edition."
Their best selling travel literature title for the second year in a row was "This is San Francisco" by Miroslav Sasek.
Lee Azus also included a link to an article I wrote for SFstation.com a couple months ago. When I interviewed Lee for SFStation, he was planning winter and spring store events and it looks like he's done a great job again at getting some very interesting people.
Here are some of them:
FEBRUARY 2, THURSDAY>> CUBA During her ten months in Cuba, Lea Aschkenas fell in love with the country and, then, one of its compatriots. In her new book, Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island she documents the contradictions, isolation and optimism of the people she came to know. Join her as she shows slides and reads from her new book.
FEBRUARY 16, THURSDAY>> SOUTH PACIFIC The writers in the new Travelers' Tales book, 30 Days in the South Pacific: True Stories of Escape to Paradise, are not that interested in finding "paradise." Instead, they scuba dive off the Bikini atoll (site of nuclear explosions), visit Gauguin's gravesite, watch Apia's weekly drag revue or study traditional Tahitian dance. Join editor Larry Habegger and contributors as they read selections from the collection.
MARCH 2, THURSDAY>> FIRST (OR SECOND) TIME EUROPE Traveling on your own through Europe is easy and fun. It's not as cheap as it used to be, but that shouldn't stop you from considering a trip there. In tonight's two hour program, we discuss all aspects of planning your trip: airfares, rail passes, car rentals, packing, budgeting, guidebooks and using the internet. We then look at various itineraries covering short and long stays on all parts of the continent.
Posted by insideoutmag at February 2, 2006 08:41 AM
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