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Literary Travel: Where Is Your Favorite Travel Bookstore?

Where: Paris, France
September 10, 2009 at 2:33 PM | by | Comment (1)

Don't go until you're well-read: The L.A. Times' travel blog recently rounded up its favorite travel bookstores in the world, for those of us who still prefer the ability to doodle in the margins of a guide to pulling it up on a smartphone. We definitely want to check out their picks, but why so Eurocentric?

The Times singles out London's venerable Stanfords (even mentioned in a Sherlock Holmes story!), Paris' Librarie Ulysse and Rome's Libreria del Viaggiatore—and they all sound like the kind of dusty nooks in which to while away several happy hours planning our next adventure. But three just aren't enough!

We love New York's Idlewild Books (12 W. 19th St.), a party-happy Gramercy outlet with a sideline in antique and rare globes, and L.A.'s own Traveler's Bookcase (8375 West Third St.). And we're still mourning the loss of Chicago's Rand McNally wonderland, a casualty of the economic crisis.

So tell us, what's your favorite travel bookstore? It could be your home base, where the cashier can see you coming and pulls your favorite guides in advance, or it could be that remote outpost that saved your trip in 1991. Let us know in the comments!

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[Photo of Stanfords: Ewan-M]

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I love Idlewild

Idlewild is a great travel bookstore. I wandered into this small shop a little over a year ago and fell in love with it. Definitely a place travel nerds will want to spend a few hours on a lazy day.
Andrew BrooklynNomad on September 10, 2009 at 3:30 PM #Permalink

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