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10 best books like The Size of the World (Jeff Greenwald): You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day, Pole to Pole, One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children, I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "what's Funny about This?", Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers, A Bike Ride: 12,000 Miles Around the World, AA Gill is Away, Miles from Nowhere

You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day
AuthorMo Willems
ISBN0786837470
ONE GRADUATE'S JOURNEY TO FIND HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD

In 1990, before embarking on his groundbreaking children's book career, Mo Willems packed a small bag and a sketchbook and set out to explore the world--by place, car, boat, bus, motorcycle, and rickshaw. At the end of each day, he drew a cartoon...
Pole to Pole
AuthorMichael Palin
ISBN0563521988
Having circumnavigated the globe from west to east in Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin proceeded to stretch even his endurance with his next journey, travelling due south from the North Pole, arriving five months later at the southernmost point of the globe, the South Pole. The result is Pole...
One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
AuthorDavid Elliot Cohen
ISBN1885211651
A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to make it a reality. With his wife and three children,...
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers
AuthorRoger Rapoport
ISBN1571430148
In this hilarious anthology 50 top travel writers, novelists and journalists, including Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux, Mary Morris, Dominique Lapierre, Eric Hansen, Rick Steves, Tony Wheeler and Helen Gurley Brown, tell the stories of their greatest travel disasters....
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "what's Funny about This?"
AuthorP.J. O'Rourke
ISBN0802137016
Back in the mid to late '80s when PJ O'Rourke wrote the pieces that make up Holidays in Hell, the world was a much different place: there was war in the Middle East, the threat of nuclear conflict, sectarian violence...alright, so things haven't changed all that much. Which is one reason why, after twenty...
Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road
AuthorStuart Stevens
ISBN0871131900
"Chop Stuart"

Travellers come in many flavors, just like ice cream. Some try to "get in" with the natives of the places they go in order to learn more about foreign ways and perceptions. Others prefer to challenge themselves with tests of strength and endurance, paddling up jungle rivers or...
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers
AuthorMary Morris
ISBN0679740309
This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices, they write of disguising themselves as men for safety, of longing for family left behind or falling...
A Bike Ride: 12,000 Miles Around the World
AuthorAnne Mustoe
ISBN0863696503
When ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bike and took to the road, she couldn't even mend a puncture. 12,000 miles and 15 months later, she was home.

Her epic solo journey took her around the world, through Europe, India, the Far East and the United States. From Thessaloniki...
AA Gill is Away
AuthorA.A. Gill
ISBN0743276671
A. A. Gill is one of the most feared writers in London, noted--according to the New York Times--for his "rapier wit." Some even consider the mere assignment of a subject to Gill a hostile act. But when the notice "AA GILL IS AWAY" runs in the Sunday Times of London, the city can rest peacefully in the knowledge...
Miles from Nowhere
AuthorBarbara Savage
ISBN0898861098
A well-loved, classic tale of adventure, a book you'll find yourself recommending again and again

This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000 miles global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years....
The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
AuthorDouglas Brinkley
ISBN1560254963
An absolute must-read! Brinkley's "American Odyssey" was a unprecedented class at Hofstra University that allowed a small group of incredibly fortunate students to spend the semester traversing the American landscape to study the history and pop culture of the United States. While studying our...
Eothen
AuthorAlexander William Kinglake
ISBN1426410794
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...
One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
AuthorTony Horwitz
ISBN0375706135
"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --Chicago Tribune

"A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." --The Telegraph (Sydney)

Swept off to live in...
The People's Guide to Mexico
AuthorCarl Franz
ISBN1566917115
Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.

Features include:
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Travelers' Tales India: True Stories
AuthorJames O'Reilly
ISBN1932361014
India is among the most difficult—and most rewarding—of places to travel. Some have said India stands for "I’ll Never Do It Again." Many more are drawn back time after time because India is the best show on earth, the best bazaar of human experiences that can be visited in a lifetime. India dissolves...
Metal Cowboy: Tales from the Road Less Pedaled
AuthorJoe Kurmaskie
ISBN0609809113
This heartwarming collection of true stories reveals the thrill and the freedom of traveling America's back roads on a bicycle, and the joy of discovering unforgettable characters along the way.From the moment he "borrowed" his big sister's banana-seat bike and careened down the neighborhood hill...
I See by My Outfit
AuthorPeter S. Beagle
ISBN1933572078
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated his dream, JFK was assassinated, and zip codes were first introduced to the US. The world was monumentally changing and changing fast. But in the eyes of future fantasy author Peter Beagle and his best friend Phil, it wasn't changing fast enough. For these...
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
AuthorRichard Grant
ISBN0802141803
Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open road, Richard Grant spent fifteen years wandering throughout the United States, never spending more than three weeks in one place and getting to know America?s nomads ? truckers, tramps, rodeo cowboys, tie-dyed concert followers,...
An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future
AuthorRobert D. Kaplan
ISBN0679776877
"Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands."--Chicago Tribune

"[Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . . I cannot imagine anyone will concoct a more convincing scenario for the American future." --Thurston Clarke,  ...
The Thousand-Mile Summer
AuthorColin Fletcher
ISBN0679723269
At three o'clock one sleepless night, Colin Fletcher decided that what he must do was walk the length of California. He could only fumble with the supporting reasons, but he knew it was a hike he had to make. Fletcher followed lonely stretches of the Colorado, crossed the Mojave, walked the trough of Death...
Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France
AuthorVivian Swift
ISBN1608195325
Road trip: those are still the two most inspiring words to vagabonds and couch potatoes alike; after all, the great American spirit was forged by road trippers from the Pilgrims to Lewis and Clark to the Dharma Bums. Le Road Trip combines the appeal of the iconic American quest with France's irresistible...
Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered
AuthorTim Cahill
ISBN0375701117
In Pass the Butterworms Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the "Mongolian death trot"; to the North Pole, where he goes for a pleasure dip in 36-degree water; to Irian Jaya New Guinea, where he spends a companionable...
Travels with Alice
AuthorCalvin Trillin
ISBN0374526001
This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin's accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters. In Taormina, Sicily, they cheerfully disagree with Mrs. Tweedie's 1904 assertion that the beautiful town "is being spoilt," and skip the Grand Tour in favor of swimming holes,...
When the Going Was Good
AuthorEvelyn Waugh
ISBN0316926477
When The Going Was Good presents five long excerpts from the four travel books Evelyn Waugh wrote between 1929 and 1935, chosen by the author. Starting with a tour of Mediterranean pleasure dens, Waugh pushes on to Abyssinia (where he reports indelibly on the coronation of Haile Selassie), across the...
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0618126937
Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet...
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