The FULL Travel library is available here You already know we're book hounds here at Around the World in Eighty Years. Heck, the name itself is an ode to the literature of travel. I never go anywhere without a…
For me, quality travel literature goes beyond a travel journal or a simple list of dates and events. The “travel-adventure” genre is WAY overdone and generally quite boring to me. Travel literature is writing of high literary value that sets…
Any interest in a story that involves tax-evasion, Swiss bank accounts, imaginary archaeologists, the mafia, bribery, money-laundering, art thieves, reclusive billionaires, ethically challenged CEOs, obsessed police investigators, and the world’s most incredible archaeological treasures? Pulitzer Prize finalists Jason Felch and…
What is great travel literature for me? I explained that here in 1-5, so lets jump right in. 11. Riding the Iron Rooster. Paul Theroux I’ve always thought that after five minutes with Theroux I’d want to sock him in the face. …
What is great travel literature for me? I explained that here in 1-5, so lets jump right in. 6. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Robert Louis Stevenson I agree with Junius Maltby (The Pastures of Heaven), Travels with…
The national debt is growing out of control, a vicious and divisive political climate inhibits the nation, the moneyed elite are running the government, economic collapse and financial meltdown put millions out of work, foreign military deployments are a constant…
For me, quality travel literature goes beyond a travel journal or a simple list of dates and events. The “travel-adventure” genre is WAY overdone and generally quite boring to me. Travel literature is writing of high literary value that sets…
