Holidays in Hell is something of a crossover between a travel book, political reportage and P.J O’Rourke telling the world…
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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.
Budget Travel in India by David S. Kauffman
Kauffman is a real Road Junky and he gets gonzo and academic at the same time when writing about his…
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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…
Read more »Deccan Tamasha – South India on a Motorcycle by Robin Brown
The definitive motorcycle travel book.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski, Accidental Gonzo
“Then he poured benzene on me, because here they burn people in benzene: it guarantees complete incineration”
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Bruce Chatwin and Nomads
Is restlessness the human condition? Or not?
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In Case There is No Doctor by Avshalom Mor
In Case There Is No Doctor is advertised as ‘The Medical and Survival Guide for Travels On and Off the…
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Road Junky Travel Handbook – Order Us in Print
The Road Junky Handbook is everything that the Lonely Planet won’t tell you. Guaranteed to be worth it’s weight on…
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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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