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Hello! Could you recommend some fics from travel literature? My reach only extends to Dalrymple's In Xanadu as of yet. And I suspect a growing love for this genre. Also, would love to know your thoughts on this genre. 🌼🍁

Here you go! It's a mix of fiction and nonfiction, and anything containing travel qualifies even though it might not intentionally be travel writing

Non-fiction

The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane: the authors follows ancient routes, hollows and pathways in Britain; is generally about the communal nature of walking.

Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux: about journeys through Asia on railways. Theroux is among my favourite travel writers, also because he almost exclusively travels by and writes about trains. Do check out his The Old Patagonian Express

Nanologues by Vanessa Able (or alternatively, Never Mind the Bullocks): a travelogue of a woman who drove through India in a Tata Nano. It's really well done. And if you'd like the immersive experience, she also ran a blog while she was driving.

Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks: it's exactly what it sounds like. The author loses a bet, and consequently carries a small fridge around Ireland. It's really really funny and warm and kind and great holiday reading

On Travel by Charles Dickens: this is a few essays about the places he visited, the process of travel, and at times quite like a travel diary

Fiction

Outline trilogy by Rachel Cusk: all three books follow a narrator through about a decade or so of her life; a bulk of the story happens when she's travelling, and her state of always passing through does interesting things to the narrative

On the Road by Jack Kerouac: I love Kerouac, and this is the first of his books that I read. It's his journey through and to the West Coast in the US. That said, it is a messy book and it does test your patience

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk: this is about travel, mobility, the body and experience. It's a whole bunch of short essays, notes, some stories, all of whom come together to be about travel and what movement means now

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam: follows the narrator who is on a journey home after he's received some distressing news. His life sort of unspools while he's travelling, and through that, it is about the afterlife of the Sri Lankan civil war, memory and what it means for his relationships

I hope this helps!

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life-spire · 11 months

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Gustave Doré, Courtyard of the Lions, La Alhambra, Granada, Spain (from the book L'Espagne by Jean Charles Davillier, 1874).

Gustave Doré, Patio de los Leones, La Alhambra, Granada, España (del libro L'Espagne por Jean Charles Davillier, 1874).

#gustave dore #gustave dore l'espagne #jean charles davillier #1874 #alhambra #granada #spain #romantic spain #travel books

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sublecturas · 1 year

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"Tres hombres a bordo del beagle" de Richard Lee Marks

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whilereadingandwalking · 2 years

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In his classic travelogue In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin goes to the wide, stretched land to find the stories of his youth. Stories of fossils and ancient skin uncovered. Of gauchos and bandits. Of cowboys and explorers.

In a lot of ways, this is a limited book about Patagonia. Chatwin is an Englishman who is clearly most interested in stories of a very particular kind of adventure, the kind associated with frontier and the unknown, the kind easier to valorize from the eyes of a wandering Western tourist. He writes stories of North American men deluded into believing they could be kings, of Butch Cassidy and whatever became of him, of his own grandfather and his Patagonia discoveries. All the while, he’s exploring the countryside, hearing new stories and writing them down, and passing them on.

All together, this is a beautifully written book with dozens of wonderful tales and surprises and historical fun-facts, as long as you take the writer’s perspective as a big grain of salt. Still worth the read with the right context.

Content warnings for anti-indigenous sentiment/language/violence, racism, homophobic mention, ableism, racism, suicide, use of the n-word.

#in patagonia #bruce chatwin #travelogue #travel books #patagonia #reading while wandering argentina #my book reviews #nonfiction books

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bookishpixiereads · 9 months

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One Star Wonders: The Worst Reviews of the World’s Greatest Places collected & illustrated by Mike Lowery

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️/5 Stars

Book 10/60 for 2023

Thanks to NetGalley and to Andrews McMeel Publishing for the eARC. My opinions are my own.

This is such a fun, giftable, coffee table-esque book.

Do you follow @goodreads_reviews on Instagram? It’s an account that collates funny and ridiculous one-star book reviews from GoodReads. That’s basically what this book is except it’s about famous landmarks, natural and man-made, and ridiculous one-star reviews about them.

In the introduction, Lowery talks about how he always checks the reviews for places that he intends to visit during his travels, but generally the 4 and 5-star reviews. And then he started reading the 1-star reviews. And sometimes they are about valid issues with maybe a tour guide or something, but this book is about the 1-star reviews that are given to something like the Grand Canyon itself!

The book covers 87 places, each illustrated by the author, with one real 1-star review apiece. For example, someone gave Mt. Everest 1 star because they wouldn’t let this person drive up the mountain!

The illustrations are charming and the reviews are sadly, hilarious. Quick and breezy, it’s something you can leave on your coffee table and you and your guests will be delighted to flip through this.

One Star Wonders is out now!!

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rockislandadultreads · 1 year

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Nonfiction Thursday: Travelogue Recommendations

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State — and she would do it alone.

Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Leave Only Footprints by Conor Knighton

When Conor Knighton decided to spend a year wandering through "America's Best Idea," he was worried the whole thing might end up being his worst idea. But, after a broken engagement and a broken heart, he desperately needed a change of scenery. The ambitious plan he cooked up went a bit overboard in that department; Knighton set out to visit every single one of America's National Parks, from Acadia to Zion.

Leave Only Footprints is the memoir of his year spent traveling across the United States, a journey that yielded his "On the Trail" series, which quickly became one of CBS Sunday Morning's most beloved segments. In this smart, informative, and often hilarious book, he'll share how his journey through these natural wonders, unchanged by man, ended up changing his worldview on everything from God to politics to love and technology. Whether it's waking up early for a naked scrub in an Arkansas bathhouse or staying up late to stargaze along our loneliest highway, Knighton goes behind the scenery to provide an unfiltered look at America. In the tradition of books like A Walk in the Woods or Turn Right at Machu Picchu, this is an irresistible mix of personal narrative and travelogue-some well-placed pop culture references, too-and a must-read for any of the 331 million yearly National Parks visitors.

World Travel by Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter—and many places beyond.

In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places—in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable.

Supplementing Bourdain’s words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Chris; a guide to Chicago’s best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini, and more. Additionally, each chapter includes illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.

Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world”. She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone.

It started with an itch—first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after three and a half years of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live.

How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives.

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theanthrotorian · 10 months

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The Anthrotorian has officially been around for more than a decade — since 2012, I have been writing about travel, culture, art, and history on this website. To celebrate this landmark birthday, I published a book, It’s Rude to Keep an Adventure Waiting: Travel Advice, Tips, and Tricks.

Learn more here.

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tigerfush · 1 year

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I just finished this book and it was fantastic! A great train and travel book, she doesn't go into a lot for Europe train journeys, but that's great experiences with people in North America , especially in Canada, Russia, Khazakstan, North Korea, Japan and China . (and the saddest bit in Tibet). Check out her previous book where she did massive train journeys around India.

#around the world in 80 trains #travel books #book recomendation #monisha rajesh

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aneverydaything · 1 year

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Day 1695, 12 February 2023

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highsummonertemptress · 2 years

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Can anyone recommend me any travel or living abroad memoirs to read? Especially from authors of Asian or Caribbean descent ☺️✈️🌍

#books #bookaholic #travel books #memoirs #autobiography #biography #living abroad #Asian authors #black authors #Asia #Caribbean #Africa #America #Europe #Oceania

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apollopapyrus · 2 months

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forevertravelingblog · 2 months

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humanmadenet · 2 months

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#travel #ethnic conflict #stories #travel books #history #geography

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