Travel the world without leaving the comfort of your living room, with these engrossing tales of adventure and travel.
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The city of falling angels / |
Berendt, who captivated readers with his Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, here takes us on a trip to historic Venice, soon after a fire almost destroyed the famous opera house. In his usual fashion, Berendt shows readers a snapshot of the city that won't appear on any postcard, rich with eccentric characters and architectural marvels. |
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In a sunburned country / |
Noted travel writer Bryson writes an entertaining travelogue of Australia from the Outback to the cities sharing along the way humorous stories and peculiar facts about this country filled with deadly creatures and colorful characters. |
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Travels in Siberia / |
Compiling years' worth of trips to Siberia, seasoned travel writer Frazier takes us on a journey through the vastness of a place few people will ever visit, unveiling its long history and offering a view into its post-post-Soviet state. |
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Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia/ |
Suffering from a punishing divorce in her early 30's, Gilbert took the step of taking yearlong trip to Italy, India and Indonesia in hopes of revitalizing herself. In Italy she indulges in gastronomic adventure, in India she meditates and in Indonesia she spends time with a healer. Gilbert is animated and witty in recounting her journey. |
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Undress me in the Temple of Heaven / |
Fresh out of college Gilman and her best friend embark on a backpacking trip across the globe. In the pre-internet world of the 80s this proves to be a true experience in "roughing it" that the two are ill-prepared for, but that makes for a page-turner of a travelogue. |
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Paris to the moon / |
Moving to Paris to write for a living might seem like a dream come true, but Gopnik, who wrote stories for The New Yorker for five years about his life in France shows the challenges of living as an ex-pat with a wife and young child. His insights about globalization and cultural differences make for entertaining reading in this collection of essays and journal entries. |
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Diario de Oaxaca / |
Illustrator Kuper and his family spent two years living in Oaxaca, Mexico. Hoping to get away from the political climate in the U.S. he finds their new home is a hotbed of unrest as a headline-grabbing teachers' strike throws the city into political turmoil. Kuper chronicles his stay in this diary/sketchbook which is accompanied by bilingual text (English and Spanish). |
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The black Nile : one man's amazing journey through peace and war on the world's longest river / |
Combining history, travelogue and reportage Morrison presents an adventurous narrative of his journey of little-known parts of the African river and its surrounding lands, people and culture. |
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Radio Shangri-La : what I learned in the happiest kingdom on Earth / |
Disenchanted with her life in L.A., Napoli travelled to the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan to work as a consultant to the country's new youth-oriented radio stations. She becomes enmeshed in the culture of this insular country often referred to as the happiest place on earth and finds a bit of that happiness to call her own. |
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Dreaming in Hindi : coming awake in another language / |
Having survived cancer and the loss of her regular magazine job, Rich travels to India on a new writing assignment and finds herself immersed in a year-long program to learn Hindi in a remote part of the country. |
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The places in between / |
After the Taliban was overthrown, Stewart walked across Afghanistan. Surviving mostly by luck and the kindness of strangers, Stewart shares his encounters with the local people and the landscape, as well as relaying the history of the politics of this fascinating but war-torn country. |
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The Caliph's house / |
Shah moves his young family from comfortable London to a dilapidated and supposedly haunted house in Morocco, where he vacationed as a child. He begins to repair the home and in doing so, becomes immersed in daily life in Casablanca, observing the exotic and colorful mix of Africa and the Middle East. |
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Dark star safari : overland from Cairo to Cape Town / |
Theroux has written dozens of wonderful travel memoirs, and this account of his adventure traveling overland the length of Africa from Cairo to Capetown doesn't disappoint. In his typical slightly cranky way, he shares his impressions of the journey including the heartbreaking poverty he witnessed and the heartwarming people he met. |
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To a mountain in Tibet / |
On his quest to reach the sacred Mount Kailas, novelist Colin Thurbon takes the road less travelled (actually, it's never been travelled), accompanied solely by a guide and a cook in this travel memoir with a spiritual bent. |