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An indispensable companion for rookie and veteran travelers alike that promises to revolutionize both how and why we vacation. By captivating millions during his six-year, fifty-country tenure as the New York Times's "Frugal Traveler," Seth Kugel has become one of our most internationally beloved travel writers. While his famously unassuming journeys around the globe have forged a signature philosophy of whimsy and practicality, they have also revealed the seemingly infinite booby traps of on-the-grid tourism. In a book with widespread cultural reverberations, Kugel takes the modern travel industry to task, determined to reignite humanity's age-old sense of adventure that has virtually been vanquished by the spontaneity-obliterating likes of Google Maps, TripAdvisor, and Starwood points. Woven throughout with vivid tales of his perfectly imperfect adventures, Rediscovering Travel explains -- often hilariously -- how to make the most of new digital technologies without being shackled to them. For the tight-belted tourist and the first-class flyer, the eager student and the comfort-seeking retiree, Kugel shows how we too can rediscover the joy of discovery.
About the Author
Seth Kugel is a travel writer and videomaker best known (among Americans) for writing the Frugal Traveler column for The New York Times from 2010-2016 and (among Brazilians) for hosting the Amigo Gringo YouTube channel, a series intended to help Brazilians understand New York City and American culture. He has been an elementary school teacher in the Bronx, an immigrant services provider in the Bronx, a reporter for the Times' City section in the Bronx and the Brazil correspondent for Global Post (in São Paulo, because you can't do that in the Bronx) . Strangely, he has appeared frequently on Brazilian late-night TV, and even more strangely, occasionally fantasizes about being an economist, especially when he catches wind of an interesting data set. Seth lives in Jackson Heights, Queens where he is an enthusiastic consumer of Thai, Colombian, Uruguayan, Bangladeshi and Tibetan food in what is almost certainly the most diverse neighborhood in the city. But his favorite food of all time is farofa -- the toasted manioc flour served as a side dish in any Brazilian meal worth its salt (and Brazilians use a LOT of salt) Profile pic: Sebastian Piras.
