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65 Secrets to Amazing Retirement Travel - More Than 65 Intrepid Writers and Travel Experts Reveal Fun Places and New Horizons in Your Retirement
In 65 Secrets to Amazing Retirement Travel, intrepid travel writers and notable retirement experts reveal their own personal adventures and offer practical advice about how to have the time of your life, whether traveling with a group, a spouse or partner, or on your own. Their illuminating and informative essays describe a wide variety of fun and unusual travel opportunities for retirees, including eco-travel (to Brazil s wetlands or the barrier reef off Belize), volunteering abroad (going on archaeological digs or helping make a difference in developing countries), wine tourism (from Colorado to Croatia), international house sitting, and taking a retirement gap year. This inspiring book is the perfect gift for new retirees. Thanks to the generosity of the contributing authors, all of whom provided essays on a pro bono basis, the royalties generated from the sale of this book will be donated to nonprofit organizations dedicated to preventing and curing cancer.
- GenresTravel
400 pages, Paperback
Published October 12, 2016
About the author
Mark Evan Chimsky
18 books6 followersMark Evan Chimsky is the head of Mark Chimsky Editorial Services Unlimited (markchimskyeditorial.com), an editorial consulting business in which he helps authors develop and polish their manuscripts and book proposals.
Previously he was executive editor and editorial director of Harper San Francisco and headed the paperback divisions at Little, Brown and Macmillan. For nearly six years, Mark was the editor in chief of the book division of Sellers Publishing, an independent publishing company based in South Portland, Maine. In addition, he was on the faculty of New York University’s Center for Publishing, and for three years he served as the director of the book section of NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute.
Mark has edited a number of best-selling books, including Johnny Cash’s memoir, Cash, and he has worked with such notable authors as Melody Beattie, Arthur Hertzberg, Beryl Bender Birch, and Robert Coles. He was also project manager on Billy Graham’s New York Times best-selling memoir, Just As I Am. He conceived of the long-running series The Best American Erotica, which was compiled by Susie Bright, and he was the first editor to reissue the works of celebrated novelist Dawn Powell. His editorial achievements have been noted in Vanity Fair, the Nation, and Publishers Weekly.
In his career, Mark developed and compiled a number of acclaimed books, including Creating a Life You’ll Love, which won the silver in ForeWord’s 2009 Book of the Year Awards (self-help category) and 65 Things to Do When You Retire, which the Wall Street Journal called “[one of] the year’s best guides to later life.” He is also an award-winning poet whose poetry and essays have appeared in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association), Wild Violet, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, and Mississippi Review.
Mark also teaches in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, and he is the co-author of the new musical The Road of Life (roadoflifethemusical.com).
Previously he was executive editor and editorial director of Harper San Francisco and headed the paperback divisions at Little, Brown and Macmillan. For nearly six years, Mark was the editor in chief of the book division of Sellers Publishing, an independent publishing company based in South Portland, Maine. In addition, he was on the faculty of New York University’s Center for Publishing, and for three years he served as the director of the book section of NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute.
Mark has edited a number of best-selling books, including Johnny Cash’s memoir, Cash, and he has worked with such notable authors as Melody Beattie, Arthur Hertzberg, Beryl Bender Birch, and Robert Coles. He was also project manager on Billy Graham’s New York Times best-selling memoir, Just As I Am. He conceived of the long-running series The Best American Erotica, which was compiled by Susie Bright, and he was the first editor to reissue the works of celebrated novelist Dawn Powell. His editorial achievements have been noted in Vanity Fair, the Nation, and Publishers Weekly.
In his career, Mark developed and compiled a number of acclaimed books, including Creating a Life You’ll Love, which won the silver in ForeWord’s 2009 Book of the Year Awards (self-help category) and 65 Things to Do When You Retire, which the Wall Street Journal called “[one of] the year’s best guides to later life.” He is also an award-winning poet whose poetry and essays have appeared in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association), Wild Violet, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, and Mississippi Review.
Mark also teaches in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, and he is the co-author of the new musical The Road of Life (roadoflifethemusical.com).
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June 6, 2020
Interesting short essays from retirees and their take on travel, how to do it, the purpose, how adventuresome. Some thoughtful essays.
July 16, 2021
There really is nothing new or unique here. I already travel with much of this already in mind.
June 15, 2022
Disappointed!
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