In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World
7 best books like In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World (Nicholas Shakespeare): Blue Highways, In Patagonia, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas, Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu, Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, The Art of Travel
| Author | William Least Heat-Moon |
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at...
| Author | Bruce Chatwin |
| ISBN | 0142437190 |
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for...
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0140249796 |
Award-winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboard The Old Patagonian Express by Train through the Americas; packed with powerful descriptions and portraits of the many colours of humanity, The Old Patagonian Express is an unforgettable read.
A witty sharply observed journey...
| Author | J. Maarten Troost |
| ISBN | 0767921992 |
With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a side-splittingly funny account of life in the farthest reaches of the world....
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0679722165 |
Iyer in his introduction tells us this is “less like a conventional travel diary than a series of essays” of a “casual traveler’s casual observations” of the Asia he saw “over the course of two years... [spending] a total of seven months crisscrossing the continent.” Each chapter covers...
A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
| Author | Alain de Botton |
| ISBN | 1846683599 |
A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, Alain de Botton
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was installed in the middle of Heathrow's Terminal Five on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he was writing and to come and share their stories. He provides...
| Author | Alain de Botton |
| ISBN | 0375725342 |
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything...
