Here's a cute travel guide, arm chair or otherwise: Totes Paris: a Dog's Travel Guide, by Rosanne Kang Jovanovski. You'll see some of the sites of Paris, learn a bit of French and there is room if you want to add your own notes about your journey. The illustrations are nice, but I have one issue (and it's all mine) ... I just don't like animals in human clothing and standing up. Not all of these were like that though, so I figured it was worth a read. :-)

Another offbeat and somewhat different travel read was Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel, by Suzanne Roberts. On the back cover, this book is described as an "anti-guidebook"! It does have some examples of what not to do, that's true! Mostly I enjoyed the writing, especially the trip in Scotland, but I wish the chapters had been put in chronological order.

Reading Hermit With Dog