Eating the Flowers of Paradise is that real treat – a travel book written about somewhere you’ve probably never been…
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Books
Reading is like traveling in itself. You open the pages and someone you’ve never met takes you far away. Actually, that makes it more like hitchhiking but anyway here are some reviews of Road Junky’s favourite travelogues.
First Footsteps in East Africa by Richard Burton
By Richard Burton A 19th century travel legend, Burton endeavours to become the first white man to enter the forbidden…
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Marco Polo’s Travels
The Old Man of the Mountains, Kublai Khan’s concubines and the birth of sex tourism?
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Dispatches, Vietnam Michael Herr
The only book about Vietnam you’ll ever need to read.
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Round Ireland With A Fridge by Tony Hawks
Witty, if a bit pointless. The Irish like him.
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Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
Travels in the 1940’s with the Bedouin. Your starting point for books about Arabia.
Read more »One Life to Ride by Ajit Harisinghani
One man, one bike, all the way from Pune to Ledakh and Kashmir.
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Arabia by Jonathan Raban
Arabia by Jonathan Raban is still in the canon of good travel writing though it tells us more about ourselves…
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Black Earth City by Charlotte Hobson
A year spent in Russia at the climax of Perestroika – funny, poignant and tragic, a gem of travel writing
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