A year spent in Russia at the climax of Perestroika – funny, poignant and tragic, a gem of travel writing
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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.
Download Hand to Mouth to India For Free Or Read It Online
The new media is free.
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Dispatches, Vietnam Michael Herr
The only book about Vietnam you’ll ever need to read.
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Interview With Carl Hoffman, Author of the Lunatic Express
Traveling the world like the poor do.
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Adrift by Steven Callahan
Just your average boat trip.
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A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb
Compelling reading that offers windows onto Brazil’s culture, history and sexual mores.
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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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Bruce Chatwin and Nomads
Is restlessness the human condition? Or not?
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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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