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4.0 of 5 stars.
This store has an amazing selection of travel books--I have only very rarely wanted a guidebook they did not have. The best part of the store, though, is probably the well-curated section of fiction...
yelp.com - user review - 10/16/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is my kind of place to go vegitate and think about where I want to go, as well as realize how many limits I have on travel (Financialy). I would love to travel the world, I just need a group of...
yelp.com - user review - 05/28/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Hubs and I love this place for it's phenom section on African travel and culture. Came here once and found an entire book just on Cape Town restaurants - so particular, and so exactly the kind of book...
yelp.com - user review - 03/27/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
While I like this place and visit it whenever I'm planning a vacation with my wife, I find the prices to be a bit steep and the "rewards" program to be rather inscrutable (No stamp for buying that...
yelp.com - user review - 03/09/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
An incredible place to spend a few hours on a cold weekend afternoon (actually, it's worth going on sunny days too!) The first time I visited The Globe Corner, I stumbled upon it and was specifically...
yelp.com - user review - 03/01/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Oh my God, you know what this place is? It's a bookstore that only does travel books! It's like they reached into my soul and pulled my dreams out!Not just guidebooks and stuff but books about...
yelp.com - user review - 02/17/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Seriously nice place! They have a great selection of travel books and guides and my absolute favorite...GLOBES.
yelp.com - user review - 01/20/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I have never visited a travel bookstore with such great staff and a broad selection. If you have an upcoming vacation, go here for certain. I went here to get books before spending a semester abroad,...
yelp.com - user review - 01/15/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I used to know this place when it was in it's previous location, because my parents love it. I ended up here this year on Christmas Eve night, on a hunt for a specific book my sister wanted to get for...
yelp.com - user review - 01/12/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
clean, well-organized, well-lit, centrally located, friendly staff, shelves upon shelves of travel books, maps, and atlases. fantastic! and yes, each month features 15% off a destination - even if you...
yelp.com - user review - 01/09/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
AMAZING selection of travel books (its a travel book junkie's dream store)Ok...give yourself TIME to go through this bookstore...I literally found about 6 or 7 books on the cote d'azur and an entire...
yelp.com - user review - 01/03/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
My kind of place. I love travel, even if its from the good ol' lazy boy. My aunt, showed me this place and haven't gone back to the other side of bookstore land. Anything you could want about any...
yelp.com - user review - 10/02/2008
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I love that this place even exists in the age of the mega-chain bookstore. I travel a lot and always buy a guidebook here wherever I'm going. Travelers take heed: Don't visit the Globe Corner Bookstore if...
kudzu.com - user review - 07/17/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I love that this place even exists in the age of the mega-chain bookstore. I travel a lot and always buy a guidebook here wherever I'm going and advise all my customers to go there (I work at a...
yelp.com - user review - 07/04/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The best Travel bookstore around...hands down. The only question is why do you need to go anywhere? My friend Rick says "the most valuable travel is in your own damned mind....so get on the boat and...
yelp.com - user review - 05/01/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I got interviewed for the Boston Globe here. How ironic. I get frustrated when it comes to travel. I can spend hours Googling places that I want to go, and in the end, not know much more than I did...
yelp.com - user review - 04/26/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
before any planned or impromptu trip anywhere cool, we try to swing by this place and grab travel guides, maps, essays about the location we are headed to. It's nice because the Lonely Planet...
yelp.com - user review - 03/19/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Lao Tzu once said, "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent upon arriving." He has a point there, but sometimes it's nice to have a fixed plan to arrive at a certain destination, and to...
yelp.com - user review - 02/21/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Great store if you're looking for maps, guide books, and novels associated with traveling. They have the best selection and it's so nice to be able to pick the guide that you want.If you travel a...
yelp.com - user review - 01/13/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Traveler take heed: Don't visit the Globe Corner Bookstore if you're not in possession of a valid passport because your first instinct after spending a few minutes poking through their well edited...
yelp.com - user review - 12/25/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Excellent resource for anyone intersted in other places or actually about to visit them. I spend countless hours in this shop just reading about everywhere I'd like to go, with no real intention of...
yelp.com - user review - 11/15/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I love to travel. I love to even think about travelling and planning things out in my head that i know will never happen. So this store is perfect to satisfy my dreams not matter how realistic or...
yelp.com - user review - 09/04/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Oh man....I could spend hours and many, many dollars here. They've got a fabulous selection of travel guidebooks, but also great general travel writing books. Also, there are maps, atlases,...
yelp.com - user review - 08/15/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I have spent an embarrassing number of hours in this place over just a few visits. There are travel books for almost anywhere you can imagine going, atlases, globes, and a great collection of maps (I...
yelp.com - user review - 08/13/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
There are a multitude of reasons why i visit Globe Corner. It is a valuable resource when i am about to travel somewhere as close as Maine or as far away as India. It is also an ideal place to leaf...
yelp.com - user review - 07/28/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I recently browsed this bookstore after hearing Tony and Maureen Wheeler speak about their travels and how they started Lonely Planet, sponsored by The Globe Corner. First, the lecture was excellent....
yelp.com - user review - 06/20/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I get a severe case of wanderlust every time I merely look at this store. It's torture to even walk by during the times when I'm entrenched in my worklife with no holidays on the horizon. Yesterday I...
yelp.com - user review - 05/29/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is a really nice bookstore and their new location is very pretty (in the new Harvard Library office building across Mount Auburn from the Garage). This is one of those bookstores, like Grolier or...
yelp.com - user review - 05/06/2007
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globe has a wonderful collection of contemporary Travel books. The space is very welcoming and the staff is helpful. Where else in the world can you find a shop entirely devoted to travel?
citysearch.com - user review - 04/24/2007
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Since its remodel and move to the other side of Harvard Square, this travel bookstore seems to have shrunk in size. The store is arranged by country/continent and contains a middling collection of ma...
judysbook.com - user review - 09/30/2006
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Globe Corner Bookstore, not to be confused with the Boston Globe Bookstore (which I think is now closed anyway), is a store specializing in travel materials. Their map collection is really cool. You can get...
citysearch.com - user review - 09/05/2006
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This is a great bookstore for travel books and maps. It also is a great location for browsing while waiting for a table at the Border Cafe Mexican/Cajun restaurant immediately across the street. Unfortunately,...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/27/2005
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5.0 of 5 stars.
fantastic little place where one could spend all day tracing routes on maps, skimming guidebooks, and planning out trips whether realistic or just fantasy. cozy, friendly, quiet, and clever.
yelp.com - user review - 07/11/2005
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Amazing... I could spend days here (I say that about most bookstores that I frequent, don't I?). I love travel, and this bookstore inspires me and feeds my obsession. They have every guidebook you...
yelp.com - user review - 06/29/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Boston is a booklover's paradise and this is a bookstore for the geographer, the wanderer, or the traveler looking to read up on their next adventure. Good place to spend several hours of time.
yelp.com - user review - 06/25/2005
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