An Amateur's Guide to the Planet: Twelve Adventure Journeys and Lessons for the Contemporary United States

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Summary: In the mark of an excellent travel narrative, the reader ...
Review: ... is taken beyond pure experience and intophilosophy. Location details are told withextraordinary flair, but it is the stories about the people that are the most memorable parts of this book. Jeannette Belliveau has taken obvious care to visit some of the world's most exotic places and to bring them to a readership who adventures mostly from the armchair. She has done a great service in providing this book. Amy Cooper, of Small Press magazine

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Summary: 'Amateur's Guide' travel book a gem
Review: I was delighted the other day to buy a book that I recommendwithout reservation: An Amateur's Guide to the PLanet.Jeannette Belliveau, the author, is a former Washington Post national-desk editor. She used her vacation time over a decade to visit a dozen of the world's most remote places. The traveler in her provides narratives for her journeys from Madagascar to China; the journalist in her provides incredibly insightful background on the cultural, economic and social issues of Greece, the Yucatan & elsewhere. ... Makes for new levels in travel journalism. Madison Capital

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Summary: 'Amateur's Guide' has heart
Review: In an era of travel books describing epic journeys and heroic and heroic adventures, it isn't easy to write something different. Belliveau's stories are very well documented and still quite readable. "We roam the globe yet lack insight into what we see," she writes, and reminds us to look with our hearts.