The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places
10 best books like The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (Klara Glowczewska): The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong, A Man's Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places, Bad Trips, The Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway, The Best American Travel Writing 2000, Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador, The World: Travels 1950-2000, The Best American Travel Writing 2009, The Best American Travel Writing 2004, Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
| Author | Edward Gargan |
| ISBN | 0375705597 |
Along the Mekong, from northern Tibet to Lijiang, from Luang Prabang to Phnom Penh to Can Lo, I moved from one world to another, among cultural islands often ignorant of each other’s presence. Yet each island, as if built on shifting sands and eroded and reshaped by a universal sea, was re-forming itself,...
A Man's Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places
| Author | Mark Jenkins |
| ISBN | 1594867070 |
"Brought to life by a poetic and muscular style, Jenkins’s writing is a brew of history, philosophy, and raw emotion. His journeys are as intellectual and spiritual as they are physical, and we are by his side, in his head." So wrote Robin Russin for the LA Times about Mark Jenkins’s last book, The...
| Author | Keath Fraser |
| ISBN | 0394221516 |
As with any anthology, this collection of travel stories includes a range of quality. Some of these stories are quite good, transporting the reader to a specific place and time, immersing us in the writer’s experiences. Others are a bit more pedestrian, providing some interesting glimpses at other...
The Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway
| Author | Paul Watkins |
| ISBN | 0792267990 |
Acclaimed writer Paul Watkins describes his spellbinding solo trek through the wilds of Norway's Rondane and Jutunheimen mountains—grand but harsh landscapes where myth and reality meet. His adventure takes him through valleys bordered by thousand-foot cliffs, roaring waterfalls wreathed...
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0618074678 |
The extraordinary popularity of books and magazines dedicated to travel comes as no surprise, given that more and more Americans are traveling each year for business, pleasure, and especially adventure. Our fascination with travel has never been so well represented as in this new addition to the...
Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador
| Author | John Gimlette |
| ISBN | 1400078539 |
Newfoundland is one of the most intriguing places in North America, a land of breathtaking but cruel beauty, populated by some of the saltiest, oddest characters you’ll ever find. In Theatre of Fish, John Gimlette vividly describes the dense forests and forbidding coastlines and recounts the colorful...
The World: Travels 1950-2000
| Author | Jan Morris |
| ISBN | 0393052087 |
If you like to travel, or read about traveling, this is a wonderful book! Jan Morris has been everywhere, she has written beautifully about her travels in many, many books. This book condenses the stories into vignettes of those trips. From accompanying Edmund Hillary on the first successful summiting...
| Author | Simon Winchester |
| ISBN | 0618858660 |
**Heh, 3.5 stars if GoodReads had such a thing**
I tethered with the rating on this one because some of the essays were non-memorable and almost boring, not bothering to uncover the travel experience through narrator experience and setting authenticity.
Yet some were indeed memorable....
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0618341269 |
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
| Author | Steve Davey |
| ISBN | 1552979555 |
An inspiring exploration of the forty most memorable travel destinations in the world.
As travelers become more experienced and sophisticated, they become more discriminating about their destinations. Many are seeking the unusual and avoiding the routine and predictable tours.
Unforgettable...
| Author | Susan Orlean |
| ISBN | 0618582177 |
“Travel is not about finding something. It’s about getting lost -- that is, it is about losing yourself in a place and a moment. The little things that tether you to what’s familiar are gone, and you become a conduit through which the sensation of the place is felt.” -- from the introduction by...
| Author | Anthony Bourdain |
| ISBN | 0618858644 |
In his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that “spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side, those moments fearful, sublime, and absurd; the small epiphanies familiar to the full-time traveler,...
| Author | Bill Buford |
| ISBN | 0547333358 |
Hit and miss... I definitely enjoyed some stories quite a bit, but skimmed or skipped others. I'm always afraid reading travel books is going to further stoke my wanderlust (more out of control than it already is, anyway) but amusingly it often has the opposite effect, especially when I read stories...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0618582150 |
Tim Cahill writes in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2006, "'Story' is the essence of the travel essay. Stories are the way we organize the chaos in our lives, orchestrate voluminous factual material, and -- if we are very good -- shed some light on the human condition." Here are twenty-six...
The Best American Travel Writing 2002
| Author | Frances Mayes |
| ISBN | 0618118802 |
The Best American Travel Writing 2002 is edited by Frances Mayes, the author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany and the master of “running away to live in the place of one’s dreams” (Los Angeles Times). Giving new life to armchair travel for 2002 are David Sedaris on God and airports, Kate...
The Best American Travel Writing 2005
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0618118780 |
Already a best-selling addition to the series, this year’s Best American Travel Writing is a far-flung collection chosen by travel writer extraordinaire Paul Theroux, who has selected pieces about “the spell in the wilderness, the letter home from foreign parts, the dangerous adventure, the...
| Author | William T. Vollmann |
| ISBN | 0547808976 |
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The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
A Woman's World: True Stories of Life on the Road
| Author | Marybeth Bond |
| ISBN | 1885211066 |
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I was excited to read a travel book focused completely on women travelers. It's not rocket science to know that solo travel for a woman is different than it is for a man. Here's a direct quote from the book about this: "As I became aware of other women's travel experiences. I also became aware that...
Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space
| Author | Cees Nooteboom |
| ISBN | 1843430428 |
”Anyone who is travelling is always somewhere else, and therefore always absent. This holds good for oneself, and it holds good for the others, the friends; for although it is true that you are ‘somewhere else,’ and that, consequently, there is somewhere you are not, there is one place where you...
| Author | Don George |
| ISBN | 1741045193 |
This book is amazing. You will laugh, you will cry, you will remember your own misadventures. I have been reading lots of short stories lately, but this book is definitely being added to my permanent collection. It's the kind of book that you're reading to your friends and family members over the phone....
The Lonely Planet Guide To Experimental Travel
| Author | Rachael Antony |
| ISBN | 1741044502 |
Forget package holidays and classic travel routes. Wave adieu to predictable journeys and escape the clutches of tourist traps. The time has come for different travel rules and The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel is your passport to a new world.Do you yearn for the glories of yesteryear?...
Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993
Inmore than forty essays and articles that range from Paris to Ceylon, Thailand to Kenya, and, of course, Morocco, the great twen-tieth-century American writer encapsulates his long and full life, and sheds light on his brilliant fiction. Whether he’s recalling the cold-water artists’ flats...
