Posts in category ”Travel books”
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Review: The Map of Knowledge
Usually, travel stories involve a person going somewhere. Preferably somewhere inconvenient, slightly dangerous, and with questionable plumbing. In The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller, however, the travelers are ideas.
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. The sort of man who looks at a map, spots a large and potentially unpleasant stretch of wilderness, and thinks: “I should probably walk across that.”
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 a few years since I read Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall, but 2020 seems like a particularly appropriate moment to drag it off the shelf again.
Ultimate Christmas gift
Still panicking over that last Christmas present for your significant otter? Yes, the pun stays. It’s Christmas. Standards have already begun to slip.
Book signing event
My travel book Här finns inga drakar was released about a week ago, after spending an indecent number of years rattling around inside my head, my computer and various increasingly questionable drafts.
My book has arrived
Friends, allies, fellow travelers and people who somehow ended up here while looking for something else: I am happy to announce the release of my book Här finns inga drakar (Here be no dragons).
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 had been collecting dust on my bookshelf for nearly a decade before I finally got around to reading it. I’d found it by accident on a sunny morning in San Francisco, bought it with the best of intentions, then apparently decided it needed nine or ten years to mature properly.