10 Travel Books to Inspire You During COVID-19
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Terre des hommes (Wind, Sand and Stars)
Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. […] Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay...
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Adults who are racked with death anxiety are not odd birds who have contracted some exotic disease, but men and women whose family and culture have failed to knit the proper protective clothing for...
Kon-Tiki
The closer we came into contact with the sea and what had its home there, the less strange it became and the more at home we ourselves felt. And we learned to respect the...
The Best Things in Life Are Free
One of the most memorable moments I’ve had travelling cost nothing but the gumption to walk into the square that night. Tom Hall, The Best Things in Life Are Free Book Info Author: The...
The Great Railway Bazaar
The trains contain the essential paraphernalia of the culture: Thai trains have the shower jar with the glazed dragon on its side, Ceylonese ones the car reserved for Buddhist monks, Indian ones a vegetarian...
Make the Most of Your Time on Earth
Book Info Author: Phil Stanton, and the Rough Guides Team Published: First Edition, 2007; Second Edition, 2010; Third Edition, 2016 Geographic Area: Worldwide Original Language: English Synopsis Some of you may have heard of...
The Lost City of Z
What is it that these white people did? Why is it so important for their tribe to find them? Comaeda Bakairi, one of the last people to see Percy Fawcett alive Book Info Author:...
The Travel Book
The A to Z format allowed us to view the world with a pleasing kind of egalitarianism, giving equal weight to superpowers like the United States of America and less high-profile nations like Burkina...
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. Abraham Joshua Heschel Book Info Author: Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, & Ella Morton Published: 2016 Geographic Area:...
