Customer Reviews

Wanderlust

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This is a charming photobook. I enjoyed the funky, retro perspective on international travel and odd little details featured -- such as a sampling of do not disturb signs, ceiling fans, airport food, people sleeping at airports, etc. This is a just for fun book with a beautiful aesthetic.

I love this stationery. Well, I love stationery in general. I like to travel so the travel pattern appeals to me. I also like the quality of the paper and the cute little envelopes that come with it.

I have been told this is the "best kind of stationery" ever. I think its really great and you should buy one for yourself if you love stationery or buy it as presents for other people. They'll love it.

Troy Litten's Wanderlust could as easily have been featured in our travel section, but is highlighted here for its fine art applications as well. A small pocket-sized paperwork offers Litten's paintings of travel topics and destinations, from hotel beds and bathtubs to market holdings and odd signs and scenes. A lovely survey of travel experience and world wonders evolves for the armchair wanna-be.

Don't get me wrong, I like this little book. Pictures are truly sometimes worth a thousand words, but I found the book too full of pictures and too thin on text. The only real time we hear from the author in non-photography form is the inside front cover and inside back cover, which has some great first-person journal observations. But even still, a lot of Litten's observations are about superficial things like colors and people with clashing hair and fabric color, and I thought it unusual that for a man he uses color descriptions like "ochre" and "magenta" and "sky-blue" and "mint green", but then I saw that he's in San Francisco and it became clear. Nonetheless there is some good writing on the inside cover and inside back cover, I just wish there were more of it to accompany the interesting and sometimes funny photos. My favorite is the four Indian men pissing in the street.