Monday, July 8, 2013

Bookish Travel

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.  They are the destination and the journey."                 --Anna Quindlen

Want to hike the Appalachian Trail without breaking a sweat?  Pick up A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson or Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis. Either one will make you laugh. Or maybe you'd rather trek through the rain forest without getting wet.  Lost in the Amazon by Stephen Kirkpatrick will take you there.  So will The Lost City of Z by David Grann.



With books you can even Visit Sunny Chernobyl or build Castles in the Air in Wales. (I haven't read either of these yet, but one's sitting in my TBR pile and the other is on my reserve list at the library.) There are so many amazing places in the world!  Luckily, there are an equal number of amazing books to transport you any where you want to go.

And if you, like me, can't afford an actual airline ticket to somewhere amazing this summer, you can still sail singlehandedly around the world with Tania Aebi in Maiden Voyage; journey across the most forbidding desert on earth in Sahara Unveiled by William Langewiesche; or go spelunking in one of the world's deepest and most treacherous caves in William Stone's Beyond the Deep.  They are all amazing journeys!

"Reading is the key to enriching one's life.  It opens doors and leads you places you never knew existed."                             --Jonas Kage

Where will you travel next?





7 comments:

  1. I made a reading map (on Google Maps) this year and have been keeping up with all the places the books I read take me. It's fun to glance at the map and see all the markers!

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    1. What a fun idea! I'm going to have to get me a map and see where I read. Thanks for the comment and the idea!

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  2. I went to "Jungleland" (Honduras) this year. The book is supposed to be similar to Lost City of Z, which I have not yet read. I have also been across Rajasthan in India in "Desert Places" and have an Amazon river book and a Silk Road book in my TBR pile. I love traveling through books, and like the map idea as well!

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    1. I've never read Jungleland, but I loved Lost City of Z. Thanks for commenting.

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  3. I love travelling via books! Great suggestions here -- Beyond the Deep looks wonderful, as does Visit Sunny Chernobyl -- lots more to read, always :)

    One great travel book I read is The Ancient Tea Horse Road -- lots of info about the old tea trade routes. I had to get used to the narrator, but ended up enjoying it a lot.

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    1. Thanks for the recommendation! Can't wait to give it a try.

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  4. That's how I climbed Mount Everest!

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