The 50 Greatest Travel Books Of All Time. Daughters of the River Huong (9781935597315): Uyen Nicole Duong. SAS Survival Handbook, Revised Edition: For Any Climate, in Any Situation (9780061733192): John 'lofty' Wiseman. The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee (9780345441492): Stewart Lee Allen. 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World (9781593501082): John Higham.
The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World (9781566918282): Edward Hasbrouck. Work Your Way Around the World: A Fresh and Fully Up-to-Date Guide for the Modern Working Traveller (9781854584564): Susan Griffith. Lonely Planet The Travel Book (9781741792119): Lonely Planet. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel (9780812992182): Rolf Potts. How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling (Travelers' Tales Guides) (9781932361322): Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth, Kathleen Meyer. Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (9780312267179): Andrew X. Pham.
Best Books I have Read on my Travels, Part 1. The thirsty demand for book recommendations is part-and-parcel of long term travel. While iPods and laptops are great time-wasters on an endless bus journey, nothing satisfies like the pages of a good book. When I travel, I try and limit my reading to non-fiction. After all, to travel for travel itself is so fundamentally indulgent that the least I can do is try and learn as I go!
Most of the books I buy or trade are therefore non-fiction, but I’ve been handed some great fiction to read during my journey and have included those as well. In addition, I’ve included some of my favorites from home at the end of the list. I will surely update this list at the end of my trip, but these are the books that have stood out during the last 15 months. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children by John Wood. The Devil’s Picnic: Travels Through the Underworld of Food and Drink by Taras Grescoe. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World Snow. The Online Books Page.
The Pale King (9780316074230): David Foster Wallace.
100 Best Novels « Modern Library. ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses follows its hero, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of Dublin. Overflowing with puns, references to classical literature, and stream-of-consciousness writing, this is a complex, multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man. Initially banned in the United States but overturned by a legal challenge by Random House’s Bennett Cerf, Ulysses was called “a memorable catastrophe” (Virginia Woolf), “a book to which we are all indebted” (T.
S. Eliot), and “the most faithful X-ray ever taken of the ordinary human consciousness” (Edmund Wilson). Click here to read more about ULYSSES THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Set in the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby tells the story of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, his decadent parties, and his love for the alluring Daisy Buchanan. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce Click here to read more about A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN U.S.A.