When I wrote my first book Journeys of a Lifetime in 2004, it reflected how dreams of mineof visiting unknown places in the UK, countries across the North Sea in Europe, and seemingly far-off continents of America, Africa, Asia, and Australiabecame a reality.
For more than 100 years, the magnificent scenery and locales of Utah have played host to hundreds of Hollywood films and TV episodes, including memorable films such as The Searchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Easy Rider, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Thelma & Louise, and Forrest Gump.
In "e;a terrific piece of travel writing"e; a music journalist and New Yorker staff writer "e;takes us on a tour through the roots of American rural music"e; (The Guardian).
This is not a guidebook, though I hope it gives the reader some ideas on places worth seeing, accommodation worth considering, and decent restaurants worth dining in.
After his many Arab trips, which occupied him for several years, the desire arose among the Lebanese writer and thinker, Amin Al-Rihani, for a trip to an Arab country that the ancient Arabs called the Far Maghreb.
Ibn Battuta was nothing but a lamp that burned itself to illuminate others and to explain to the people what they did not know, and to market to them different types of economic conditions and different colors of social behavior.