Stuck in front of your computer today? Take a mini-break with Field-Tested Books, an essay collection in which writers talk about where they were when they read a very memorable book.

Some of our favorite folks are represented in this e-anthology, but what we love the most is that the pieces are short. You can easily pack a year's worth of long weekends into an hour or two--just make sure your boss isn't peaking over your shoulder.

Our Picks:
· Stalking an Actor in Perugia, Italy [Steven Heller]
· Forgoing Sodom and Gomorrah for Ayn Rand [Ben Karlin]
· Shocking the Other Passengers on a Cross-Country Flight [Annie Logue]
· Getting Drunk in Mexico [Andrei Codrescu]
· Armchair Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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We admit our experience of Antarctica is limited to the kinds of cruise-ship-hits-island stories that we like to chuckle about. But we'd really love to check out the great southern continent and just haven't yet because nobody's offered to pay our way there.

Second best might be reading the latest offering from Travelers' Tales: It's a collection of travel essays called Antarctica: Life on the Ice. Featuring plenty of penguins, a few dinosaur bones, hefty blizzards and places where your footprints will outlive you, it'll surely whet your appetite for more freezing experiences. Just be sure to invite us along when you go, k?

Related Stories:
· Antarctica: Life on the Ice [Travelers' Tales]
· Antarctic Cruise Gets Stranded, Turns Notsofun [Jaunted]
· Armchair Travel [Jaunted]

[Photo: towse]]]> amandak 2007-09-27T09:30:01-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/8/24/153424/436 Let's face it, there are times when you just can't travel -- or don't want to. Vicarious web travel can be a great supplement to boots-on-the-ground journeys, and we should know, right? However, our wise elders keep talking about these things called "books", so we decided to check out these paper dinosaurs a bit, and guess what, they aren't all a waste of time. Some of them are quite good.

We decided that if our members, editors or both deem a travel book worthy we will give it our own little seal of Oprahooval and tell you about it here.

Our recommended travel books series won't name a jet after you, but it may point you in the direction of a worthy travel book or two.

Have a travel book you want our editors to check out? Send it our way.

THIS WEEK'S TRAVEL BOOK]]> egw 2007-08-24T16:15:02-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/7/13/145312/823 Let's face it, there are times when you just can't travel -- or don't want to. Vicarious web travel can be a great supplement to boots-on-the-ground journeys, and we should know, right? However, our wise elders keep talking about these things called "books", so we decided to check out these paper dinosaurs a bit, and guess what, they aren't all a waste of time. Some of them are quite good.

We decided that if our members, editors, or both deem a travel book worthy we will give it our own little seal of Oprahooval and tell you about it here.

Our recommended travel books series won't put you in first class with Posh and Becks, but it may point you in the direction of a worthy travel book or two.

Have a travel book you want our editors to check out? Send it our way.

THIS WEEK'S TRAVEL BOOK
]]> egw 2007-07-13T15:49:46-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/6/29/151245/725 Let's face it, there are times when you just can't travel -- or don't want to. Vicarious web travel can be a great supplement to boots-on-the-ground journeys, and we should know, right? However, our wise elders keep talking about these things called "books", so we decided to check out these paper dinosaurs a bit, and guess what, they aren't all a waste of time. Some of them are quite good.

We decided that if our members, editors, or both deem a travel book worthy we will give it our own little seal of Oprahooval and tell you about it here.

Our recommended travel books series won't buy you a suspect mile high mojito, but it may point you in the direction of worthy travel book, or two.

Have a travel book you want our editors to check out? Send it our way.

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Let's face it, there are times when you just can't travel -- or don't want to. Vicarious web travel can be a great supplement to boots-on-the-ground journeys, and we should know, right? However, our wise elders keep talking about these things called "books", so we decided to check out these paper dinosaurs a bit, and guess what, they aren't all a waste of time. Some of them are quite good.

We decided that if our members, editors, or both deem a travel book worthy we will give it our own little seal of Oprahooval and tell you about it here.

Our recommended travel books series may only take you on a virtual roller-coaster ride, but it may point you in the direction of a worthy travel book, or two.

Have a travel book you want our editors to check out? Send it our way.

THIS WEEK'S TRAVEL BOOK ]]> egw 2007-06-22T16:06:00-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/6/15/15022/6948 Let's face it, there are times when you just can't travel -- or don't want to. Vicarious web travel can be a great supplement to boots-on-the-ground journeys, and we should know, right? However, our wise elders keep talking about these things called "books", so we decided to check out these paper dinosaurs a bit, and guess what, they aren't all a waste of time. Some of them are quite good.

We decided that if our members, editors, or both deem a travel book worthy we will give it our own little seal of Oprahooval and tell you about it here.

Our recommended travel books series won't buy you a suspect mile high mojito, but it may point you in the direction of worthy travel book, or two.

Have a travel book you want our editors to check out? Send it our way.

THIS WEEK'S TRAVEL BOOK
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