The site lets you download custom maps for Google Earth that trace the route of famous literary journeys like the ones in the Odyssey and Candide. Google Lit Trips is a site that teacher Jerome Burg created to help his students explore literature in a new way. Since we've just launched the apropos Google Book Search layer in Google Earth, it seems the perfect time to tell you about sites that feature other kinds of interesting book/map mashups. It somehow makes sense that so many great books have journeys in them, from Homer's Odyssey to Dave Eggers' You Shall Know Our Velocity. When I'm lost in a book (so to speak), it's easy to forget what's going on around me. I've heard many people describe reading as an experience that "transports" them to "another place." This strikes me as true. Posted by Dan Abbe, Book Search Support Team
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