Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
Nancy Pearl
Language: English
Pages: 301
ISBN: 1570616507
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, Nancy Pearl's reading recommendations will send you on your way.
Memoir; Joan London’s novel Gilgamesh, set just as World War II was beginning; Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s tragic novel Three Apples Fell from Heaven; and Vartan Gregorian’s memoir The Road to Home: My Life and Times. AUSTRALIA, THE LAND OF OZ I’ve been lucky enough to spend some time (with family, librarians, and readers) in Australia. It’s one of my favorite places not only to visit but also to read about. Some of my top picks follow. The Literature of Australia: An Anthology has an
Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild, but since it’s not strictly Arizona-centric, try The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert instead. (There seem to be different subtitles on different editions or printings of the book, so sometimes it reads There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert:Thirst and Drowning.) Two enjoyable character-driven novels about trips down the Colorado River are In the Heart of the Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde and Ambition by Lisa
Time of War: A Childhood Memoir. KIWIS FOREVER!: NEW ZEALAND IN PRINT One of the best speaking gigs I’ve ever had was to give four talks on a Holland America cruise from Auckland, New Zealand, to Sydney, Australia. We went down the east coast of New Zealand, stopping for the day in cities large and small. (Naturally, I have pictures of many of the libraries we went into.) One of my programs was an American’s view of the best reading from New Zealand and Australia. In the process of
solitude, the wildness, the beauty. But the ocean and I would have got along better if she would stop trying to get in the boat with me.” I really enjoyed Rosemary Mahoney’s Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff both because of her writing style and the varied characters that she describes. An older title that is still great fun (partly because it’s filled with references to children’s books like Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows , and Hugh
Journey Across the Desert by William Langewiesche updates the de Villiers book—there’s more about contemporary travel (by roads and cars rather than by camels, for example) than the past. As always, Langewiesche’s writing is clear, concise, and a pleasure to read. The classic novel exploring the lure of the desert is Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky, about three young ex-pats who slip past the veneer of civilization and are forced to see themselves in the light of a pitiless desert sun. Who