Posts in category ”Travel books”
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Review: The Map of Knowledge
Usually travel stories are centered around a person doing the traveling, but this time around the actual travel is rather performed by ideas. The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller is not a travel book in the traditional sense, but the story on how learnings were passed down through the centuries.
Review: In the Weeds
After Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, the books inevitably followed. Biographies, histories, travel guides. Everyone trying, in one way or another, to reconstruct the man from the wreckage, and make a profit along the way.
Review: The Art of Exploration
Levison Wood is a British explorer, writer and photographer. He is probably best known for his walking expeditions, including the Himalayas, the Nile and around the entire Arabian Peninsula.
Review: Smile, You’re Traveling
Today Henry Rollins turns 60. Outside it’s cold, grey and generally hostile to human activity, which seems like an entirely appropriate setting for spending a Saturday indoors with Henry.
Review: Prisoners of Geography
It’s been several years since I read this book, but I figured many people are looking for any additional inspiration and distraction in these sad times of Corona virus lockdown.
Ultimate Christmas gift
Still worrying about finding that last present for your significant otter? (pun intended) Look no further! My book Här finns inga drakar is still available in both print and digital format.
Book signing event
My travel book “Här finns inga drakar” was released about a week ago. It’s been a wild ride to work on it for so many years and I’m thrilled to finally be able to share it with everyone.
My book has arrived
I am happy to announce the release of my book “Här finns inga drakar” (Here be no dragons). After many years of work it has finally been completed. The book contains 300 pages with assorted accounts of my travels during three decades, a lot of countries and even more cups of coffee.
Review: Marco Polo Didn’t Go There
“Marco Polo Didn’t Go There” by Rolf Potts is a collection of travel stories with a clever little trick up its sleeve. Each chapter comes with extensive endnotes explaining what actually happened behind the scenes.
Review: A Sense of Place
This little gem has unfortunately been collecting dust on my shelf for a decade since I found it by accident on a sunny morning in San Francisco.