A decade after Jack Kerouac travelled across America in On the Road, American author John Steinbeck, a little older and…
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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.
Eric Newby Traveler’s Tales
Travel stories from conquistadores, missionaries, beatniks and wanderers from all corners of the world.
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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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Bruce Chatwin and Nomads
Is restlessness the human condition? Or not?
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Bozo and the Storyteller – How to Save the World
Late at night, over a spliff and candlelight, travelers everywhere find themselves in deep conversations about how to save the…
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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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Marco Polo’s Travels
The Old Man of the Mountains, Kublai Khan’s concubines and the birth of sex tourism?
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Down and Out in Paris and London By George Orwell
The tale of working 100 hour weeks in the kitchens of Paris and surviving as tramp on the streets of…
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Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
Dark Star Safari is one of Paul Theroux’s best travel books to date. He sets out to journey from Cairo…
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