AbeBooks: 50 Essential Travel Books: A good author should always suffer for his or her art. Well, the best travel writers suffer more than most, so perhaps that’s why their books are so memorable.� A journey without problems is a dull one and this selection of essential travel writing details obstacles like a boat sinking in 60 seconds in the middle of the ocean and a country on the brink of civil war. When a book is called In the Land of White Death then you know the author faced more problems than missing a bus.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
50 Essential Travel Books
AbeBooks: 50 Essential Travel Books: A good author should always suffer for his or her art. Well, the best travel writers suffer more than most, so perhaps that’s why their books are so memorable.� A journey without problems is a dull one and this selection of essential travel writing details obstacles like a boat sinking in 60 seconds in the middle of the ocean and a country on the brink of civil war. When a book is called In the Land of White Death then you know the author faced more problems than missing a bus.
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I've read a dozen of them. How about -
Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
Peter Jenkins, A Walk Across America
Bill Bryson, Notes From a Small Island and The Lost Continent
Eric Newby, The Last Grain Race
Tony Hawks, Round Ireland With a Fridge
Jeff
Jeff, Bill, anyone: any favorites among the books listed? I've only read two, of them the Steinbeck I liked better. I've also read the Theroux Jeff lists, and a different one by Bryson, about the Appalachia Trail.
Oh and I forgot Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durell.
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