These are my 2021 Top Five Travelogues/Memoirs that I find inspirational and give me insight into how others see the world. I hope these books help you find a journey of discovery about yourself and others.
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Top Ten Travelogues and Memoirs for 2020
Here are my 2020 Top Ten Travelogues/Memoirs that I have found inspirational and gave me insight into other countries in the world. I hope these books help you find a journey of discovery about yourself…
Top Ten Travelogues and Memoirs for 2019
I read a lot of adventurous travelers’ travelogues and inspiring and intriguing memoirs each year. Here is my top ten list of the best that I read in 2019.
Driving Across America with Albert Einstein’s Brain
“Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein’s Brain” is sort of a bizarre travelogue, memoir, biography and history story all in one. Albert Einstein’s brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray…
Neither Here Nor There In Europe
“Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe” written by Bill Bryson in 1991 is a snapshot of Europe on the cusp of many changes to come in Eastern Europe. He is a travelogue author of…
Matt and Karen See All 59 National Parks
Matt Smith and his wife set out to visit all 59 national parks. This book tells their journey as if they were writing their friends Bob and Sue. Some readers might light this, but I…
Book Review: ‘Larry’s Kidney’
I find the book “Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant –…
How To Live Danishly
Londoner and journalist Helen Russell finds herself in rural Denmark when her husband takes a job at Lego. They decide to give Denmark a year and this becomes her motto. Russell decides that her new…
A Poignant End to Reading ‘At Home in France’
After I read “At Home in France,” I did what I always do, I wanted to know what the author did after she published it. Author Ann Barry was not able to share more tales…
Seeing the World Like Marco Polo
Reading the book “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There” by Rolf Potts I was swept away into of world of adventure and faraway places. He provided glimpses into war-torn countries, such as Cambodia, where the dangers…
