The Big Red Train Ride
10 best books like The Big Red Train Ride (Eric Newby): The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, News From Tartary, By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London, Ring of Fire: An Indonesia Odyssey, The Lost World of the Kalahari, Mind Over Matter (Delta Expedition), All in One Basket, Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart, Slow Boats to China
| Author | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| ISBN | 1848547528 |
In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him the better part of a year. Decades later, when he was well over fifty, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey...
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0679727140 |
A mixture of minute, old-fashioned naturalistic observation of plants, mammals, and especially birds in the Amazonian rain forest, and the vicissitudes of traveling with a motley crew of locals along with O'Hanlon's alcoholic English friend Simon, who comes along for a kind of comic counterpoint...
| Author | Peter Fleming |
| ISBN | 1843410036 |
In 1935 Peter Fleming, an editor for the London Times and, interestingly, Ian Fleming's older brother, set out from Peking for Kashmir. It was a 3500 mile journey across the roof of the world. He chose as his traveling companion Ella Maillart, a beautiful Swiss journalist. Fleming is one to underemphasize...
| Author | Adrian Tinniswood |
| ISBN | 1573222445 |
A work of dynamic history that depicts in fascinating detail the cataclysm that was the Great Fire of London and the modern European capital that rose from its ashes.
"By Permission of Heaven" is a thrilling account of the Great Fire of London that makes terrific use of a vast array of first-person...
Saya selalu terkesima dengan cara beradaptasi para antropolog bersama para suku-suku pedalaman, apalagi di Indonesia. Walaupun terkendala masalah bahasa, tapi kemampuan bertahan hidup bersama suku-suku asing (bagi mereka) itu buat saya sesuatu banget lah. Mereka pun sedikit banyak jadi paham...
| Author | Laurens van der Post |
| ISBN | 0792481860 |
The distinguished explorer and writer recounts his rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa. Faced with constant attack from all the peoples who followed them, the last of the Bushmen have retreated to the scorching depths of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. After...
| Author | Ranulph Fiennes |
| ISBN | 0385313217 |
Mind Over Matter is the death-defying and bone-chilling account of Fiennes's most remarkable achievement. For 1,350 miles at a rate of 14 miles a day, Fiennes and his partner Dr. Michael Stroud trudged across Antarctica. But the expedition's world records for both the longest unsupported polar journey...
| Author | Deborah Mitford |
| ISBN | 1848546386 |
Entertaining, instructive, thought-provoking and hilarious, the unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire rings out of this volume which combines her two collections of 'occasional' writings.
The pieces are broad and eclectic in their subjects, ranging from treasures unearthed while...
Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart
| Author | Diccon Bewes |
| ISBN | 1857886097 |
It was the tour that changed the way we travel. In the summer of 1863 seven people left London on a train that would take them on a thrilling adventure across the Alps. They were the Junior United Alpine Club and members of Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. For them it was an exciting novelty;...
| Author | Gavin Young |
| ISBN | 0525481060 |
It was a simple idea, the kind all of us have had at one time or another. Take a series of ships of different sizes and kinds, go where they lead and see what happens. Inspired by great sea writers like Jack London, Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad, Gavin Young decided he would port-hop to some far destination...
| Author | Colin Thubron |
| ISBN | 0060959290 |
Here is a fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue.With a keen grasp of Russia's history, a deep appreciation for its architecture and iconography, and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for its people and its culture, Colin Thubron is the perfect...
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0553248960 |
Farley Mowat's most dramatic expedition takes him deep into the little-known regions of Soviet Siberia from the weather-battered log houses of old Russia, to primitive deerskin tents pitched on the edge of the polar sea, and to Yaksutsk, one of the coldest places on earth, where on still winter days...
| Author | Richard Crane |
| ISBN | 0593012917 |
Journey To the Centre of the Earth
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I’m a huge fan of Nicholas Crane. This 1986 book describes a remarkable journey made by Nick and his cousin Dick (Richard), by bicycle, from Bangladesh to the Pole of Inaccessibility,...
| Author | Alexander William Kinglake |
| ISBN | 1426410794 |
A solitary Western traveler in the Middle East in 1834, this is an extraordinary work of travel writing that is more about the author's internal journey than it is about monuments and museums, one that replicates the personal experience of travel and how it changes who we are. Kinglake's intimate, conversational...
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 0792268369 |
End of the Earth brings to life the waters of the richest whale feeding grounds in the world, the wandering albatross with its 11-foot wingspan arching through the sky, and the habits of every variety of seal, walrus, petrel, and penguin in the area, all with boundless and contagious inquisitiveness....
The Silver Locomotive Mystery
| Author | Edward Marston |
| ISBN | 0749083972 |
This is the Railway Detective's puzzling new case. An exquisitely designed silver coffee-pot in the shape of a locomotive is on its way to Cardiff in the care of the young, talented silversmith, Hugh Kellow. It has been commissioned by wealthy ironmaster Clifford Tomkins for his acquisitive wife,...
| Author | Dervla Murphy |
| ISBN | 0719566649 |
Through Siberia by Accident is an account of a journey that didn’t happen—and what happened instead. While still thousands of miles from her original destination, Ussuriland in the Russian Far East, Dervla Murphy found herself stymied by multiple minor injuries. This book is an extraordinary...
World War II: Behind Closed Doors; Stalin, the Nazis, and the West
| Author | Laurence Rees |
| ISBN | 0563493356 |
When do you think the Second World War ended?
If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of the countries in Eastern...
| Author | Christian Wolmar |
| ISBN | 0857890379 |
It is the world's longest railway line. But it is so much more than that, too. The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly 6,000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast and was the most ambitious railway project in the nineteenth century. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through...
| Author | Dirk Bogarde |
| ISBN | 0753819309 |
Dirk Bogarde's own vivid and engaging account of his childhood and first steps as an actor - a bestseller on first publication in 1977.
'At the top of the field the cottage roof stuck up with its chimney, and then the flint walls and the two rather surprised looking windows in the gable looking...
Narrow Dog to Indian River
| Author | Terry Darlington |
| ISBN | 0593056914 |
Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne, you would expect pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington and their whippet, Jim, to retire to a comfortable corner of their favourite public house. But no, they looked to the New World for their extraordinary new adventure...
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