Travel Writers

It's so hard to suggest just one travel book that I've suggested a few, set up as if consuming a meal.

SALAD:
Either Eric Hansen's Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo or Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon.

SOUP:
The River's Amazon, by Alex Shoumatoff.

ENTREE:
History of the Conquest of Mexico by William Prescott. and Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana.

DESSERT:
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk.

SEASONAL FRUIT:
Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods.

AFTER DINNER DRINK:
A good biography of a travel writer: Volumes 1 & 2 (or a projected three volumes) of Norman Sherry's epic biography of Graham Greene.

-John

 

 

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