GTS Staff Picks
By Geo-Tourism Specialties
By Geo-Tourism Specialties
The folks at Geo-Tourism Specialties enjoy selling books, but we might enjoy reading them even more! There are an amazing number of good reads, but sometimes you read something that really stands out. Perhaps it's the story? Or perhaps it's the word-smithing and the wonder at how someone was able to churn out page after page of eloquent prose. On those occasions where it's both, you feel compelled to spread the word. Reading is a very personal experience and we are sure no two people read the same book exactly the same way. But there's nothing better as a book-seller than to recommend a book to someone and find out they enjoyed reading it as much as you did, even if you will never know exactly what they read between the lines. So here are some very personal staff picks. A number of these titles are best sellers, but we have also taken pains to make sure we highlight some hidden gems as well.
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The folks at Geo-Tourism Specialties
On Trails: An Exploration
Robert Moor
$17.00 $15.64Robert Moor's book is wonderfully written and provides a thoughtful read for anyone who has "walked" from one place to another and wondered whose footprints they are following and why anyone walked here before.
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Nathaniel Philbrick
$18.00 $16.56There are no shortage of books on the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but this one may simply be the best. A combination of well constructed prose and a perfect balance between the order of battle, battlefield movements, and the personalities that led to an event that has not loosened it's grip on public interest in close to 150 years.
Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S.
Beppe Severgnini
$14.00American's are pretty good at thinking how we do it is how everyone else does it. Well sometimes it takes going to another country to realize how uniquely American that is, but sometimes all it can take is a non-American willing to write (with an eye for detail, a great sense of humor, and no shortage of empathy) about what it is like for a non-American to bring his family to the States and try to live like an American. You will never take your food-server asking, "is everything all-right?" the same way again.