June Group Read – Nominate a book involving travel

[Dipansha]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Piajensen13]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

[Sara]

I'm going to suggest Tsh Oxenreider's At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe which released today. My copy will hopefully arrive today as well! :)

[Alison DeGrave]

Love & Gelato

[Kelly]

A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

[Meredith]

I'll throw in with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy voices. :)

[Jessica]

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

[Ariel]

Mosquitoland by David Arnold

[Abigail]

American Gods

[Roni]

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by Maarten Troost

[Shirley (stampartiste)]

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster

[Melissa]

The Woman in Cabin 10

[Jennifer]

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

[Dana]

Georgiana wrote: "Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch."

I. LOVE. THIS. BOOK!

[Dana]

I vote for the Little Paris Bookshop as well!

[Janet]

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.

[Pat]

Thr Grapes of Wrath-seems timely..

[Ed]

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

[Melody]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

[Cherie]

The Woman in Cabin 10

[Lindsey]

The Passenger - Lisa Lutz

[Jenny]

The Passenger - Lisa Lutz

[Lindsay]

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

[Tiffany]

Neil Gaiman American Gods

[Sharon]

The Woman in Cabin 10

[Sarah]

I vote Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as well.

[Emanuel]

this I read several books involving travel like:A informacionista,Diz que és um Deles andCândido, ou o Optimismo, but one was about migrations:Os filhos de Caim e Portugal : povos e migrações no II milénio a. C.

[Alisa]

Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr

[Christophe]

L'Usage du monde by Nicolas Bouvier (English translation: The Way of the World)

[Rohini]

Circling the Sun - Paula Mclain

[Karys]

Sister Citizen - Melissa Harris-Perry

[Kyla]

The Giver by Lois Lowry

[Lily]

I was introduced to this genre in 1991 when a fellow f2f (face to face) book club member led us to read In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. Chatwin has many other marvelous travel books. but I will nominate In Patagonia here, which takes the reader to a remote and majestic part of South America.

Another wonderful travel author that others might consider nominating is Paul Theroux, who has many thoughtful and relevant (to our modern lives) travelogues to his credit.
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I much enjoyed Rory Stewart's Places in Between (~2004), the story of his trek across Afghanistan. My question to myself remains unanswered -- how much was this a British foray to understand the lay of the land, including the mindsets of its people.

A third travel book author for whom I see no mention in the nominations here is one that I have seen a Goodreads colleague nominate innumerable times without a take, but which I suspect could be of value to many of us in this age when the Middle East weighs so heavily on the fate of the globe: Gertrude Bell. Her input helped shape, for better or for worse, many of the national boundaries of the Middle East.

[Brian]

Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins

[Bree]

Traveling With Ghosts by Shannon Leone Fowler

[Sara]

This thread is now closed. A poll will be created for voting.