Thursday, February 25, 2010
What Do You Read On The Road?
What do you take to read "on the road: Romance novels from the airport gift shop, historical fiction, murder mysteries, or journals of travelers who have gone before you?
Taking a book along to read when you are traveling on vacation is a time-honored tradition. Share your "best reads" with the readers of this blog by leaving a "Comment" at the end of this blog post. Give the title, author, locale of the story, and (in the usual "25 words or less") why others will enjoy this book.
(In "What To Read On The Road", on the right-hand sidebar of this blog, I recommend several books that have made my travels away from home more rewarding experiences, or have been a good "armchair travel" read about places that I have not visited. These books are arranged by geographic region in the Tales Told From The Road Store on Amazon.com).
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Mark Twain's "The Innocents Abroad" (Signet Classic paperback) provides an irreverent, hilarious look at early day cruising, first published in 1869. It is so good that I've read it several times - oh, to be the writer he was. . .
Cretan author Nikos Kazantzakis, perhaps best known for his "Zorba the Greek" also wrote "Freedom and Death" - both were excellent companions while traveling in Crete.
I'm eager to see other recommendations.
Just finished a cycle tour in Cuba and read "Enduring Cuba" by Zoe Bran on the road. It's not at all a stereotypical/cliched read about rum, cigars, and salsa, but really gets to the heart of Cuba, Cubans, and politics (even religion). A very entertaining and thought-provoking read, best read while traveling in Cuba.
I enjoy reading about travel and adventure in the countries or regions I'm actually traveling in at the time. I remember, however, reading Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" one time on a flight to Bermuda, and realizing while looking out the window of the jet, that my altitude at that time crossing the Atlantic was almost exactly the same altitude as the climbers of Mt. Everest! Very strange feeling indeed. Made me appreciate that book even more!
I'm currently in the UAE and I brought with me "In the Empire of Gengis Khan", written by Stanley Stewart, one of my favourite travel writers ever! Once here I stumbled across the story of Ibn Battuta, the pioneer of Islamic travel writing, so I bought "Travels of a Tangerine", his adventures. Needless to say, I'm always on the road so very little time to read, will catch up on the plane on my way back to Europe, I've got plenty of time!
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