“Then he poured benzene on me, because here they burn people in benzene: it guarantees complete incineration”
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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.
Roberto Saviano, Gomorra and the Camorra
The gritty journalistic investigation into one of the world’s largest mafia organisations.
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The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
Travels around the Mediterranean through the vulgar, the war-torn and the beautiful.
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Papillon by Henri Charriere
By Henri de Charriere The epic true story of a man who escaped from the penal colonies in South America…
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
One of the classics of travel journalism, John Berendt takes us deep into the life of an isolated Georgian town,…
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The Seventh Gate by Peter Greave
A tragic-comic tale of an Englishman growing up in India in the time of colonial rule.
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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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Interview With Carl Hoffman, Author of the Lunatic Express
Traveling the world like the poor do.
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J.W Schultz – My Life As An Indian
Classic tale of a fur trader in the 1880’s who hangs out with the Blackfeet Indians and marries into the…
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