May
May - Travel Literature
Top 10 Travel Reads
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The Art of Travel Alain De Botton |
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Sailing For Home Theo Dorgan |
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Travels with Myself and Another Martha Gellhorn |
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Travels with Herodotus Ryszard Kapuscinski |
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere Jan Morris |
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The Island That Dared: Travels Through Cuba Dervla Murphy |
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Nomad’s Hotel : Travels in Time and Space Cees Nooteboom |
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Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig |
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Journeys of a Lifetime Mary Russell |
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The Flaneur Edmund White |
Also Recommended
| Robert Gibbings | Lovely is the Lee |
| Homer | The Odyssey |
| Mary Russell | The blessings of a good thick skirt |
| Horatio Claire | Sicily through writers’ eyes |
| Goethe | Italian journey |
| Peter Somerville-Large | The coast of West Cork |
| Samuel Johnson & James Boswell | Journey to the western islands of Scotland |
| Bernard Share | Far green fields: fifteen hundred years of travel writing |
| Sean O Faolain | An Irish journey |
| Patrick Leigh Fermor | Traveller’s tree: journey through the Caribbean islands |
| France Mayes | A year in the world: journeys of a passionate traveller |
| Norman Lewis | A voyage by dhow and other pieces |
| Manchan Magan | Manchán's travel : a journey through India |
| Eric Newby | Departures and arrivals |
| Alannah Hopkin | Eating scenery |
| Francesco Da Mosca | Francesco’s Italy/Francesco’s Venice |
| Carol Drinkwater | The Olive Route |
| Bruce Chatwin | The songlines |
| Wilfrid Thesige | My life and travels |
| Michael Palin | The new Europe |
Around the world in 80 days | |
| Bill Bryson | Neither here nor there: travels in Europe |
| Paul Theroux | Riding the red rooster |
The great railway bazaar | |
| Redmond O’Hanlon | In trouble again: a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon |
| Peter Mayle | Toujours Provence |
| Colin Thubron | Shadow of the silk road |
| Jonathan Raban | Bad land: an American romance |
| Laurens Van de Post | Lost world of the Kalahari |
| John Steinbeck | Travels with Charley – in search of America |
| VS Naipaul | Beyond belief: Islamic excursions among the converted peoples |
| Brian Keenan & John McCarthy | Between extremes |
| Marlena De Blasi | A thousand days in Venice |
| Annie Hawes | Extra virgin |
| Tim Severin | The Brendan voyage |
| John Banville | Prague pictures |
| Tony Hawks | Round Ireland with a fridge |
| Pete McCarthy | McCarthy’s Bar |
| Lawrence Donegan | No news at throat lake |
| Joseph O’Connor | Sweet liberty: travels in Irish America |
| Mark Lawson | The battle for room service |
| Antoine de St Exupery | Flight to Arras (fiction) |
| Blaise Cendrars | La prose du Trans-Siberien et de la petite jehanne de France |