15 Travel Books to Take You Around the World
Between my trips there are always lengthy stretches of time where if I wasn't working I would be reading up on entertaining and insightful travel literature. I’ve worked my way through a diverse mix of guidebooks and adventure travel books, fiction and non-fiction, biographies and first-hand accounts of some of the most foreboding, inspiring, and thought-provoking stories.
Listed below are some of my favorite travel books, as well as a few that have received rave reviews and are on my list of must-reads for the coming year. You’ll find everything from intense historic expeditions to laugh-out-loud funny personal accounts to intimate memoirs. Enjoy!
1.
KON-TIKI: ACROSS THE PACIFIC IN A RAFT by Thor Heyerdahl
Destination: Pacific Ocean & South Pacific Islands
2.
INTO THIN AIR by Jon Krakauer
Destination: Everest
3.
WHAT THE PSYCHIC TOLD THE PILGRIM by Jane Christmas
Destination: Spain
4.
THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coehlo
Destination: Spain & Egypt
5.
THE LOST GIRLS by Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett, Amanda Pressner
Destination: Peru, Kenya, Cambodia, India
6.
LITTLE SHIP OF FOOLS by Charles Wilkins
Destination: Atlantic Ocean
7.
AND THEN THERE WERE NUNS by Jane Christmas
Destination: United Kingdom
8.
SOUTH: THE ENDURANCE EXPEDITION by Ernest Shackleton
Destination: Antarctica
9.
EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert
Destination: Italy, India, Indonesia
10.
WILD by Cheryl Strayed
Destination: Pacific Crest Trail
11.
INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer
Destination: Alaska
12.
AND THEN THERE WERE NUNS by Jane Christmas
Destination: Canada & UK
13.
TRACKS by Robyn Davidson
Destination: Australia
14.
THE LONG WALK by Slavomir Rawicz
Destination: Russia, Mongolia, India
15.
THE WHITE MASAI by Corinne Hofmann
Destination: Kenya
