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Classic of Modern Travel Writing
I read Looking for the Lost by Alan Booth for the Summer Vacation Reading Challenge. When we lost Alan Booth to colon cancer in 1995, we lost a wonderful writer about Japan. When he first went to Tokyo in 1970, he starte… -
From Tibet to New Delhi
I read From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth as the 10th of ten for the Orbis Terrarum 2009 Challenge. Seth lived in China as a foreign student from 1980 to 1982. During the summer of 1981… -
Impersonating Wealth
Ludwig Bemelmans is most famous for the children’s series Madeline, the toughest among the twelve little girls in two straight lines. I can’t remember if as a kid I really admired her indomitability but I do remember bei… -
The Elemental Power of Place
Ostensibly a travel narrative, the journal The Aran Islands (J. M. Synge, 1907) is in fact unclassifiable. William Butler Yeats persuaded Synge to live for a time in the Aran Islands (off the west coast of Ireland) in th… -
Classic Travel Narrative
Henry Miller took an extended trip in Greece from August, 1939 to early January, 1940. He wrote about it in Colossus of Maroussi because he met people whose exuberance matched his own. The title, in fact, refers to Kats… -
Living among the Defenceless
I read this as a 2nd of 6 for the Lost in Translation reading challenge. The Storyteller (Mario Vargas Llosa) is set in Peru in the 1950s. Two narrators tell this story, the author himself and his university friend Saul … -
Through the Looking Glass
Written in the late 1970s, Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth is dated. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia did not grant author Jonathan Raban a visa, but the mix of journalism and commentatry about Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai… -
Adventures among Ferns
In 1999, the world's most famous neurologist Oliver "Awakenings" Sacks took a 10-day trip to Mexico. He went with fellow members of the American Fern Society. Oaxaca Journal is in keeping with the other books in Nat Geo … -
Runnin' with Nomads
In her second outstanding travel narrative Desert Places, Robyn Davidson confronts the realities of a desert environment in Rajasthan, poverty among nomads, and her own prefernces for grueling sojourns. As she experience… -
Spain, Wondrous 'n Scarey
Strange Vignettes of Old Madrid by Michael Besas is a readable example of history lite – a book for tourists to buy in country and read on the plane back home. Short chapters feature interesting capsule histories of the …
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