Old and new, about all countries and places.
I love to read travel stories!
Thank you for sharing and have a wonderful weekend! :)
2006-09-08 01:49:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Thank you, but I mean stories, not travel guides. :)
2006-09-08 01:54:54 · update #1
I especially enjoy real stories, diaries, things like that. :)
2006-09-08 01:57:21 · update #2
Thank you to all who answered, for some really good ideas! :)
2006-09-11 22:23:15 · update #3
Heya Moon, I can strongly recommend Paul Theroux's travel books. He is an exceptional writer who writes fiction as well as nonfiction but I have always enjoyed his travel books the most. As you are a fellow Anglophile, I would highly recommend you read his 'The Kingdom by the Sea,' sometime. It's a bit dated now, as it was written at the height of the Falkland Islands War whilst he traveled by foot around the coast of Great Britain, but it's well worth reading. Check it out and let me know what you think. Cheers! :)
2006-09-10 16:42:30 · answer #1 · answered by MacSteed 7 · 39⤊ 6⤋
Frances Mayes - Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany
Peter Mayle - A Year in Provence, Encore Provence, Toujour Provence
When In Rome (I forget the author)
Anything by Bill Bryson or Rick Steves
Shirley MacLaine's Don't Fall Off The Mountian.
2006-09-08 02:48:01 · answer #2 · answered by M. Romeo 2 · 16⤊ 14⤋
City of djinns.....by William dalrymple.....it's a kind of a travelogue plus fiction. extremely funny and incisive. Accounts of the writer's stay in new Delhi, India for a year. Captures the spirit of this centuries old city and unique mixture of old world and the new modern capital that is Delhi.
2006-09-08 07:00:36 · answer #3 · answered by S 4 · 16⤊ 14⤋
Real stories:
R.L. Stevenson - In the South Seas (a true account of his travels)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/202-0023332-7338269?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=baldassare&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go
V.S. Naipaul - Among Believers - An Islamist Journey (not to be confused with an ISLAMIST'S journey, he's pretty critical)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Among-Believers-An-Islamist-Journey/dp/0330413333/sr=8-4/qid=1157732629/ref=sr_1_4/202-0023332-7338269?ie=UTF8&s=gateway
Fiction:
Amin Maalouf - Balthasar's Odyssey (saving humankind by travelling)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Balthasars-Odyssey/dp/0099452081/sr=8-4/qid=1157732390/ref=sr_1_4/202-0023332-7338269?ie=UTF8&s=gateway
R.L. Stevenson - The Wrecker
http://www.amazon.co.uk/-Wrecker/dp/1417942150/sr=8-6/qid=1157732530/ref=sr_1_6/202-0023332-7338269?ie=UTF8&s=gateway
and again R.L. Stevenson - Kidnapped + Catriona
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2006-09-08 05:27:00 · answer #4 · answered by msmiligan 4 · 16⤊ 14⤋
I also like to read what other travelers have to say after they had been to a specific country or county.It is like you take the trip with them.Just find some writers that write about their travels.
2006-09-08 02:16:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 14⤊ 14⤋
Around the World in 80 Days
Dr. Doolittle
Wizard of Oz
all very travel worthy....
2006-09-08 01:59:05 · answer #6 · answered by "Marian" the Librarian 4 · 16⤊ 14⤋
Sure you can go with newer stories, but agreat travel story is actually called "The Inncoents Abroad" by Mark Twain.
2006-09-08 16:00:00 · answer #7 · answered by JH 1 · 15⤊ 15⤋
The Odyssey, by Homer
Beowulf
2006-09-08 03:31:57 · answer #8 · answered by mury902 6 · 15⤊ 15⤋
Ready anything by Eric Newby you can get your hands on!
2006-09-08 02:21:30 · answer #9 · answered by blueprairie 4 · 16⤊ 14⤋
Hey Moonriver,
Frommer's - covers all places well!! I have one for DWorld, one for Caribbean Ports, one for Las Vegas - great stuff!
Also, Fodor's. Have one on Arizona - Including the grand Canyon. I took a trip to Las Vegas for 3 days, then 7 days driving in Arizona - this book was great for it's recommendations. We stayed on the Rim of the Grand Canyon, looked out our room at the Canyon at sunset, and sunrise, went out of the room to a bench on the canyon - words cannot describe this! It also talked about more places than I could visit. 1800 miles in AZ - Navajo, Monument Valey, 4 Corners, etc. Great Trip due to planning.
I am planning for a trip to Alaska and Australia eventually. I have a Dorling Kindersley Travel Guide for Australia - it really covers the country well. But I have no experience on its content.
If I am planning a trip (and I do a lot), I get on the web and look for Chamber of Commerce in the City or town and request a Tourist package. They send magazines, coupons, etc. Let me give you a heads up on the COC sites.
I see your follow up notes, the magazines at the Chambers of Commerce give lots of travel stories!
You probably have read, Travels with Charlie, and Gullivers Travels.
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ISTANBUL Novelist Orhan Pamuk’s 2005 autobiographical masterpiece, Istanbul, braids together a portrait of the artist as a young man with a fascinating analysis of the city of "ruins and of end-of-empire melancholy" where he has spent his life.
LAS VEGAS Journalist James McManus played in the 2000 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, and his raucous, hilarious account, Positively Fifth Street, captures both the town’s vulgarity and its awesome vitality.
SAN FRANCISCO Beth Lisick’s San Francisco is a vibrant young city of poets, Mission District performance artists, and rock bands with names like Ebola Soup. She brings this milieu to life in her fizzy, humorous memoir Everybody into the Pool.
SEATTLE Jonathan Raban’s Waxwings is the British author’s love note to his adopted hometown, which he portrays as a beautiful, complicated city awash in high-tech money and desperate immigrants from the developing world.
VENICE John Berendt immortalized Savannah, Ga., in his 1994 blockbuster Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. He works the same magic on Venice in his new gossipy and delightful City of Falling Angels.
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You have a great weekend also.
2006-09-08 01:50:58 · answer #10 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 16⤊ 14⤋