{"id":3084,"date":"2010-06-15T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T09:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/archive\/3084"},"modified":"2018-01-02T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:40:09","slug":"mac-says-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/mac-says-8-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Mac says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mac\" width=\"64\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/mac-small.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/> Regular contributor Mac ruminates on the world of travel &amp; some of his adventures along the way<\/p>\n<p>Regular contributor Mac ruminates on the world of travel &amp; some of his adventures along the way J<\/p>\n<p>This time round he\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;s reflecting on some books he might want to check out from the library and keep his travel appetite wet:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holidays in Hell by PJ O\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;Rourke<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;anything written by Pico Iyer (he is one of Mac\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;s favourite\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;s travel writers)<\/li>\n<li>The Gringo Trail by Mark Mann<\/li>\n<li>Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell<\/li>\n<li>Congo Journey by Redmond O\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161&rsquo;Hanlon<\/li>\n<li>The Sex Lives of Cannibals : Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. 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