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A couple of travel books I enjoyed reading were:

The Weather Prophet by Lucretia Stewart. This is the story of a Caribean journey and is a result of a number of trips by the author. It gives a good insight into many of the less well known islands and is frank aswell as funny; to quote the blurb ".. she (Lucretia Stewart) careers through the Carribean in flimsy boats, staying in sleazy hotels, braving high waves and bed bugs.."

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So Far From God: A Journey to Central America, by Patrick Marnham. This is really a bus and train journey through the old Spainsh empire of the New World taking in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rice and even California. I found this a facinating read as the author descibes (often with wry humour) the cultural/ religious/ political diversities of each Country and yet how they somehow manage 'merge' or justify what would seem to be complete opposites together and then just get on with it. The title of the book comes form the (apparently) traditional saying "Poor Mexico: so far from God, so close to the United States!"