DESTINATION BOOKS WRITTEN A
PROSE- A STORY
Explain where or how to visit a place in the world.
GUIDEBOOKS: Hotels and
transportation. etc.
Has their own link:
Guidebooks
Lonely Planet, Roughguide, Footprints, Frommers, Routards, Let's Go. Moon, etc.
HISTORICAL NOVELS ABOUT TRAVEL
James Michener
The Source (Israel)
Alaska
Hawaii
Caribbean
Centennial
Texas
Poland
Caravans (Afghanistan)
Mexico
Iberia (Spain Non-Fiction)
Tales of the South Pacific
About Hobo Backpackers:
The
Drifters
The future of travel:
Space
HISTORY OF TRAVEL - These are books
that influenced the way people think and
created a desire in people to travel.
- Alex Garland
The
Beach
ANECDOTE - Humorous and story
telling books.
"No shitting in the toilet." By Peter Moore
- Bill Bryson
CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" (South America)
The
Ugly American (Thailand)
AUTHORS I TO READ, OR WANT TO
READ... Please explain.
"The Sheltering Sky"
"Malvania, a land not touched by modern denistry."
-
Greene's
The
Quiet American (Vietnam)
"Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe"
- Earnest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
(1926), a novel that captures the attitudes of a hard-drinking, fast-living set
of disillusioned young expatriates in postwar Paris.
- William Burroughs - A so-called Junkie
traveler and part of the Beat Generation. Big influence on travelers in
the 50s and 60s. He influenced people to leave the norm and do your own things.
Jack Kerouac
born March 12, 1922, Lowell, Mass., U.S.
died Oct. 21, 1969, St. Petersburg, Fla.
original name Jean-Louis Kerouac U.S. poet and novelist, leader and spokesman of
the Beat movement. Kerouac gave the Beat movement its name and celebrated its
code of poverty and freedom in a series of novels of which the first and best
known is On the Road (1957). The word beatnik comes from the word beat.
John Steinbeck - Travels With Charlie