Tony&DiannesRV
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Does anyone have any good recommendations for travel novels? These seems to be my only interest lately. If I can't travel, it's nice to read about other's travels. -Dianne
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Pangaea Ron
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I love his travel writing, especially those in South America.
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downtheroad
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Travels with Charlie....John Steinbeck.
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TMBLSN
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Have you read Around the World in 80 Days?
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just_dave
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Blue Highways
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VernM
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After Blue Highways, read "Prairy Erth" by the same author, then go enjoy the very spots it describes in the Cottonwood Falls area of the east Kansas Flint Hills country. Cottonwood Falls has a nice, almost free, campground right in town.
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ramblemutt
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Good ideas above. Read Ernest Gann's autobiography, "A Hostage to Fortune". Available on Amazon for about two bucks.
Been thinking about it and this is a handy thread. I'll be following the responses....hope you get a lot.
I carry this one in my TT...fascinating!!
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
By Alvaro Mutis
Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Introduction by Francisco Goldman
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute. Álvaro Mutis's seven dazzling chronicles of the adventures and misadventures of Maqroll have won him numerous honors and a passionately devoted readership throughout the world. Here for the first time in English all these wonderful stories appear in a single volume in Edith Grossman's prize-winning translation
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kknowlton
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Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortensen & David Oliver Relin - marvelous true story of one man's mission to change the world (in a good way)
Tisha, as told to Robert Specht - true story of a young woman heading to Alaska to teach school in 1927
Letters from Yellowstone, by Diane Smith - novel about a young woman in a scientific expedition to Yellowstone in the 1890s
The Yellowstone Faithful, by Kyle Hannon - murder mystery taking place in Yellowstone
any novel by Nevada Barr, who worked as a ranger with the NPS and has written several mystery novels, each one set in a different national park
novels by Rosamunde Pilcher - they're (clean) romance novels, set in various parts of the British Isles, and focusing almost as much on the locality as on the characters
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robsouth
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Seems there was some feller named Gulliver that traveled a lot.
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jesterdog
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try this
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