Perhaps the greatest travel novel, a masterpiece on the inner journey that accompanies the outer travels.
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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.
The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
Travels around the Mediterranean through the vulgar, the war-torn and the beautiful.
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Dispatches, Vietnam Michael Herr
The only book about Vietnam you’ll ever need to read.
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A Year in the World by Francis Mayes
The world is full of boring, tedious, and predictable travel books. Matthew Stone reviews one which isn’t a Lonely Planet…
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101 Experimental Travel Ideas
In a parody of the Lonely Planet’s rather pathetic Experimental Travel, Road Junky got drunk and came up with 101…
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Somewhere Under the Rainbow by Tom Thumb
Somewhere Under the Rainbow is the new book from Tom Thumb.
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Get a Free Copy of Hand to Mouth to India!
When I was 20 I hitchhiked to England to India with no money. I passed through England, France, Luxemboug, Germany,…
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Thumbs Up Australia, Hitchhiking Oz by Tom Parry
Thumbs Up Australia, a travelogue about hitchhiking across Oz by Tom Parry.
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Hashish – A Smuggler’s Tale by Henry de Monfreid
He doesn’t know what hashish is yet but is determined to smuggle it from Greece to Egypt in his small…
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