Top 18 books for travel - Part 2
Updated: Aug 28, 2020
Our recommended list continues, we love to read, to feel in each destination without being there, to know where I am going or where I dream of going, all countries have their stories and all of them deserve to be read. A good coffee, tea or a glass of wine will be the perfect complement.
The adventure of traveling.
The author narrates his life as a passionate traveler, an inspiring book like few others. Javier Reverte begins his childhood making many excursions, even in the worst moments of the war, touring the most remote places in the world.
1000 Places to See Before You Die, by Patricia Schultz.
If your passion is traveling, this book is a must read and will practically be your guide when choosing your next destination. This book is based on a selection of places that will take you from the most earthly to the most spiritual. Although we have not read all 1,000 destinations, it is true that there have been destinations that have inspired us.
Towards wild routes.
Based on the story of a young man who decided to change his life completely after graduating, moving away from everything he knew that made him a material man. With this radical change, the author seeks to return to the essence of the human being on a trip to an inhospitable region of Alaska. A madman and wit without the least knowledge of nature.
The return of the 25.
A Chinese ecologist, a mother from southern Africa, a Peruvian shaman, a Filipino fisherman, a Maori from New Zealand, a future Russian cosmonaut. It tells the story of the journalist Marc Serena from the age of 25, where he travels for a whole year, interviewing 25 young people in 25 countries at the age of 25. In his story you will be able to feel the diversity within each of the cultures, portraying the difference in thinking according to the place where they are born.
The heritage of humanity.
Written by Unesco, this book is based on a large number of places that have been of relevance in the history of mankind. With a total of 936 places, the pages of this book will take you to know the history of our world and to be able to awaken the curiosity of being there.
Catch your dream.
Written by Candelaria and Herman Zapp, it tells how they get into a car with the dream of reaching Alaska in 6 months. This book is a great inspiration, it teaches us that life is to live it, no matter what your dream is, you have the capacity and the obligation to project it and make it come true. These teachings can be seen in the journey that this young couple makes throughout America.
Seven years in Tibet.
This book is one of the classics of travel literature that narrates the autobiography written by the Austrian mountaineer ogr Heinrich Harrer, a well-known mountaineer and Olympic ski champion. Harrer was caught in the Second World War while on an expedition to the Himalayas. He was detained in a concentration camp in India, from which he managed to flee to Tibet, and live for 7 years with an unknown culture. His adaptation was such that he became the tutor of the young Dalai Lama.
Shantaram.
The author begins his story by telling how he was living a life of crime and drugs. Pursued by the police, thanks to the escape from a maximum security prison in Australia, Gregory David Roberts lands in Bombay, where he will enter the most miserable neighborhoods, where he meets Prabaker, his Hindu guide, who teaches him to speak Hindi and Marathi. But, it is there where he will find the direction of his life being one of the best books that inspire to travel.
The lost city Z.
An explorer who mysteriously disappeared in the Amazon in 1925. This is one of those books that inspire you to travel. Specifically, to the Amazon with all its natural wonders. It is based on a man named Percy Fawcett, who goes on an exploration to the Amazon in search of a lost city, which he does not find and is never heard from again.
