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Almost forgot, Dave Bidini has written a couple of somewhat travel books.
Tropic of Hockey was quite enjoyable and I've heard good things about On a Cold Road. |
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It was only then that I noticed the cover blurb described it as "numinous"; serves me right, that should have been enough to set off the "Danger Will Robinson!" bells and whistles. |
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^Thanks for the heads up. I don't know if numinous scares me that much. Yet.
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I second Bruce Chatwin.
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One you may not have thought of, but that I've enjoyed reading over the years: Elspeth Huxley. She wrote other genres as well (including mystery). Unfortunately, it looks like very little of her works are available in eBook format.
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I totally second Paul Theroux and all his travel books (Riding the Iron Rooster and Dark Star Safari seem best). I also recommended his Sir Vidia's Shadow. It's not a travel book per se, but it's about his friendship with the Nobel Prize-winning writer Naipaul, and there's a LOT of travel stuff in the book since Theroux and Naipaul meet each other in Africa, England, etc.
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Just finished Fatal Mountaineer, which is part travel, part biography of the alpinist Willi Unsoeld. Definitely worthwhile.
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Also, check out Evelyn Waugh's A Tourist in Africa though Amazon doesn't have it available for the Kindle, at least in the U.S.
Nancy Pearl, the author of Book Lust, has a new book about travel with recommended books for different countries and regions of the world. |
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Thanks for all the recommendations; they're very much appreciated.
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Harry T. Here is an anthology of 18th Century travel writing I read a few years ago...and Now on a Kindle for only 3 quid or so... at Amazon...
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I've noticed that British traveling cyclist Bettina Selby has put her (backlisted) collection out as ebooks these days. She can be a bit cranky (like Theroux), but I do recommend them highly, especially the ones outside Europe.
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Most of her books are in the Kindle Owner's Lending Library for Amazon Prime members.
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I came across this on Amazon. Looks interesting.
You can pre-order it for the Kindle in the UK The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 by Agatha Christie http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grand-Tour-L.../dp/000744768X |
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Peter Jenkins - Walk Across America
Peter begins his trip across the US with his husky and meets a wide range of real life characters. I often go back and the chapter about Homer the Mountain Man, that chapter is well worth the price of admission itself. |
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