Posts in category ”Travel books”
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Review: A Cook’s Tour
Even before he became the patron saint of world-weary travelers and street food geeks, Anthony Bourdain had already detonated the culinary world with Kitchen Confidential. Published in the summer of 2000, it turned an anonymous New York chef into an unlikely celebrity almost overnight.
Review: Urban Safari
If your idea of a proper vacation involves a sun lounger, a suspiciously blue cocktail and seven uninterrupted days of doing absolutely nothing, Urban Safari is probably not for you.
Review: Istanbul: Memories and the City
Some cities refuse to explain themselves. Istanbul is one of them. You can spend days wandering between mosques, ferry docks and tea houses, convinced you’ve finally figured the place out.
Review: Long Way Round
In 2004, actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman set off on what sounds like a perfectly reasonable trip from London to New York. But to make things interesting they decided to go eastward on motorbikes.
Review: Livet är ett äventyr
This is a collection of short stories by Staffan Heimerson, the veteran Swedish journalist who seems to have spent much of his career turning up in places where sensible people were either evacuating or strongly advised not to go.
Review: The Terminal Man
Some books are best read in the place where they happened. I first opened The Terminal Man while waiting for a flight at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.
Review: Full Circle
The BBC travel shows with Michael Palin are among the most well-produced mainstream narratives out there. Many of them are also available in book format, such as this one. Full Circle describes a lap around the Pacific Ocean, a quite original itinerary.
Review: Anatomy of Restlessness
Bruce Chatwin had a peculiar way of writing. One moment two people are having a perfectly ordinary conversation, but three sentences later he’s contemplating the nature of civilization, human migration and why we apparently made a terrible mistake when we stopped wandering around and started buying furniture.
Review: On the Road
On the Road is Jack Kerouac’s 1957 hymn to movement, caffeine, jazz, drugs, automobiles and the persistent belief that whatever you’re looking for is probably somewhere over the next state line.
Review: Into Thin Air
This is Jon Krakauer’s classic eyewitness account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. A story involving ambition, money, questionable judgment, catastrophic weather and the persistent human desire to stand on top of something simply because it’s there.