Posts in category ”Travel books”
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Review: A Cook’s Tour
Even though Anthony Bourdain had been writing several stories for a long time, it was Kitchen Confidential that made him instantly famous in the summer of 2000. Any fans of Bourdain’s travel shows that randomly pickup a copy of Kitchen Confidential, expecting it to be full of hilarious travels, will be quite disappointed.
Review: Urban Safari
If you prefer to spend your vacation on a sunny beach instead of walking through crowded cities, this book is not for you. This is a love story about the big cities in the world.
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 the actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman went on a four-month 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, a renowned Swedish journalist. Many of the episodes are downright hilarious, such as the hunt for Bin Ladin in Falun and his road trip on the Karakoram Highway.
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 very unique touch to his storytelling. It often goes from simple dialog to pondering philosophy in less than a few sentences.
Review: On the Road
On the Road is the classic tale from 1957 where Jack Kerouac and his buddies from The Beat Generation travel in a haze of weed and caffeine across America. It’s considered to be one of the definitions of Beat literature and remembered as a big influence on writers and artists.
Review: Into Thin Air
This is the classic eye-witness account by Jon Krakauer of the tragedy that unfolded on the slopes of Mount Everest in 1996. I read it about ten years ago and recently got inspired by an adventuring friend to re-read it.