For those with tickets to ride, we present our list of travel memoirs to help bring your holiday destinations to life.
Before you head off on summer holiday this year, check out our travel memoir booklist. You might even find something set in the countery you're visiting that may even point the way to adventure and new experiences. This list is far from definitive, but will hopefully whet your appetite for far-off lands and distant locations.
Travel memoirs
For those with tickets to ride, we present our list of travel memoirs to help bring your holiday destinations to life.
Before you head off on summer holiday this year, check out our travel memoir booklist. You might even find something set in the countery you're visiting that may even point the way to adventure and new experiences. This list is far from definitive, but will hopefully whet your appetite for far-off lands and distant locations.
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In Patagonia
VintageIn Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road. -
Burma Chronicles
Jonathan CapeThis graphic novel from Guy Delisle is a charming insight into a country notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control. -
Mani – Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
John MurrayThis is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. -
Eat Pray Love
BloomsburyIt's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. -
Assassinating Shakespeare
Saqi BooksIn 1976, Thomas Goltz, then a naive twenty-one-year-old on the trail of his errant brother, worked his way around Africa putting on one-man Shakespeare performances. -
The Motorcycle Diaries
Harper PerennialIn January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on 'La Poderosa', the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton motorcycle. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Che Guevara. -
Round Ireland with a Fridge
Ebury PressI hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month'. -
A Moveable Feast
Arrow BooksHemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. -
On the Road
PenguinOn the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs. -
Six Months in Sudan
CanongateWith great hope and insight, Maskalyk illuminates a distant place - its heat, its people, its poverty, its war - to inspire possibilities for action. -
Maximum City
HeadlineSuketu Mehta's impressive and expansive non-fiction book about modern Mumbai is the definitive book about this massive city. -
The Honey Gatherers
Rider and CoMimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance by three wandering minstrels from rural India. -
Surinam: Stumbling Through the Dark Heart of South America's Forgotten Jungle
Old Street PublishingWestoll explores Surinam's bloody past, the allure of its wild places, the legends and rituals of its extraordinary people. An honest and beautiful writer he conjures a place of golden light and impenetrable shadow, of long-held secrets and sacred stories.
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