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Around the World in 14 Books
Here is Mr B's list of fabulous travel writing, old and new, from all around the world. 2 books covering each of the 7 continents including some pretty spicy tales of adventure at either end of the globe (featuring Messrs Scott and Shackleton to name but two) and some superb writing by masters of the travel writing genre such as Patrick Leigh Fermor and Laurens van der Post.
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A Year in Marrakesh Peter Mayne Africa #1 - One of the beautiful classic travel writing titles republished by independent press, Eland Publishing. Do NOT confuse A Year in Marrakesh by Peter Mayne, with A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle. The former, this book, was written in 1953 after the author moved to Marrakesh after… |
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Almost Heaven Martin Fletcher North America #1 - Martin Fletcher's ramble through the scarier nooks and crannies of America is a real stand-out in a genre that became rather overcrowded in the post-Bryson era. He visits moonshine brewers, death-row inmates, conspiracy theorists, multi-wived Mormons and dozens of ot… |
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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig:Travels through Paraguay John Gimlette South America #1 - South America is relatively poorly served by travel writers - both classic and modern - so this great book on Paraguay is a welcome addition. An entertaining jaunt through an amazingly anglo-friendly country. Apparently the Paraguayans were queuing up to join the En… |
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Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah Tim Mackintosh-Smith Asia #1 - The second part of Mackintosh-Smith's trilogy of travelogues as he follows in the footsteps of Ibn Battutah, an adventurer who travelled much of the then known-world for 29 years in the middle of the C14 (and wrote about it too). The book is a real mix of travel journal as th… |
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In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin South America #2 - Chatwin was reputedly fired from the Sunday Times magazine (for whom he wrote on art and architecture) after he sent them a telegram announcing "Have gone to Patagonia". Fortunately his trip spawned a travel writing classic which describes his six months in Pat… |
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South Ernest Shackleton Antarctica #1 - As an alumnus of previous Scott expeditions, Shackleton left Scott and Amundsen to their efforts of reaching the South Pole, and instead set about trying to cross the Antarctic. His ship, the "Endurance", couldn't endure the pack ice which … |
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The 8.55 to Baghdad Andrew Eames Asia #2 - Agatha Christie took a luxury train from London to Baghdad in 1928. On the eight-day trip she met her future husband and encountered the desert landscapes of Syria and Iraq that she would revisit each summer thereafter for around 30 years. Andrew Eames retraces her steps and find… |
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The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule Joanna Kavenna Arctic #2 - Joanne Kavenna describes her search for the mythical land of Thule, home of a race of giants which appears on ancient maps surrounded by "here be monsters" legends and which Greek explorer Pytheas claimed to have found in C4th BC some six days sailing north … |
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The Lost World of the Kalahari Laurens Van der Post Africa #2 - Lost World of the Kalahari was actually an early example of a tv tie-in as it accompanied a six-part 1956 BBC documentary. The series and the book described the journey of explorer, author, journalist, philosopher, political adviser, war hero and general legend Laurens van der Post,… |
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The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard Antarctica #2 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard was a young biologist allied to Scott's fateful expedition to the South Pole. Cherry-Garrard's own worst journey was his blizzard-engulfed search for the eggs of an emperor penguin some 60 miles from Scott's base camp. Cherry-Garrard wrote this … |
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Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople - From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube Patrick Leigh Fermor Europe #1 - A beautiful edition of one of the most elegantly and entertainingly written travel books. In the early 1930's, at the age of 18, Paddy Leigh Fermor rejected the pressure on him to attend university, and instead decided to walk from Holland to Constantinople (as you do)… |
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Travels with Charley John Steinbeck North America #2 - One of C20 America's greatest authors hops in his custom-made truck with his beloved poodle to rediscover the country he wrote about. From Long Island to New Orleans, via the North East, the Mid-West, his Californian homeland and Texas (and including the settings of many … |
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