Is armchair travel my favorite genre? Here is a long list of armchair travel books I've enjoyed.
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon (US)
Our Towns: A 200,000 Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James and Deborah Fallows
Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure by Rinker Buck
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey by Paul Theroux
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201 Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman
Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorbike, 20,000 Miles Across the Americas by Lois Pryce
How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America by Newman
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
ASIA
Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo by Tracey Johnson
The Roads to Sata: A 2,000 Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa by Karin Muller
Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo by Eric Hansen
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald
Baghdad Without a Map and Other Adventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart (Afghanistan)
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
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Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia by David Greene
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler
AFRICA
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel by Jeffrey Tayler
To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story by Steven Weinberg
Sahara by Michael Palin
AUSTRALIA
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
EUROPE
Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France by Vivian Swift
Adventures on the Wine Route by Kermit Lynch (France)
One More Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake (France)
Stolen Figs and Other Adventures in Calabria by Mark Rotella
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (England)
My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir by Susan Allen Toth
Red Sauce, Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey by Felicity Clarke (England)
HERE AND THERE
An Evening Among Headhunters & Other Reports from Roads Less Traveled by Lawrence Millman
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan
Thank you to Laurie C @ Bay State Reader’s Advisory for this week's prompt.
Hi Deb, what an amazing list of books. Thanks for sharing 👍 😊
ReplyDeleteOh wow! You went all out for this one! I pretty much chose fantasy worlds! Lol. Some would be fun to visit and others...maybe not! Lol.
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I thought I was fond of travel books, but I’ve only read a very small number from your remarkable lists. When I was a kid I loved the travel books of Richard Hallibutron (mostly published in the 1920s) but recently I went back to them and found them too dated to read.
ReplyDeleteWow, I’m impressed with this list! I’ll have to look some of these titles up as I haven’t read most of them yet. Thank you for stopping by earlier.
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