Books for Armchair Travelers

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 Andrés Newman

A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andrés Reséndez

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

Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia by Anne Garrels

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

One for the Road: An Outback Adventure by Tony Horwitz

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

The Geography of Bliss: One Man's Search for the Happiest Places on Earth by Eric Weiner

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

Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman by Alice Steinbach

Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places by Andrew Blackwell

The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to the Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner

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.

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