Read before you go
The books I give, recommend and pack, gathered by destination. Read your way into a place before you arrive, or wrap one up for the traveler on your list.
Ethos Travel Bookstore
Coffee-Table Gifts
The Gift Shelf
✓ Nineteen Assouline editions from my own shelves, the ones I love to give.
✓ Gathered by destination, from Capri and Lake Como to Kyoto, Jaipur and the Alentejo.
✓ Each comes with a note on who it suits, from the honeymooner to the first-time safari guest.
✓ The book I send ahead of a trip, so the journey begins on the coffee table.
From my shelf: the newest addition is Malhadinha, the Alentejo estate where we stayed in Portugal. The book holds the vineyards, the cork oaks and the family's long table.
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Give the book with the journey. A coffee-table edition for the destination, wrapped with the first page of a trip we are planning together, is the most beautiful way I know to give travel. Tell me who it is for, and I will help you choose.
Pair a Book with a Trip
By Destination
✓ Europe: Italy · France · Portugal · Rivers of Europe
✓ Asia: Japan · Bhutan
✓ Africa: Africa & Safari · Egypt
✓ The South Pacific: French Polynesia
From my journey: when I go somewhere new, I read my way in. These are the shelves I hand clients before they fly, novels for the plane, history for the first evening, and memoir for the slow afternoons.
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Read Your Way In
By Theme
For Every Kind of Traveler
✓ Honeymoon Reads: love stories with a sense of place, for the flight and the villa.
✓ Family Travel: picture books and adventures for every age at the table.
✓ Food & Wine Books: cookbooks and wine reads that bring the trip home.
✓ Polar & Expedition: the ice, the explorers and the islands, before you sail.
✓ Wanderlust Memoirs: the travel writing that fills the time between trips.
✓ Coffee-Table Gifts: the Assouline editions I love to give.
Not sure where to start? Tell me where you are headed, and I will point you to the right shelf.
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Every book here is one I have read, given or recommended to clients. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. The small commission helps keep the shelves growing, at no extra cost to you.
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