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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAnother Day of Life
Ryszard Kapuscinski · 136 pages
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 389 pages
The author relates her experience in Kenya, describing not only her own youth but also the country's traditions and people.
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession
Edmund de Waal · 416 pages
"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"--
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Edward Rice · 522 pages
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson · 324 pages
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. back to the States for a while. But before leaving his much-loved Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around old Blighty, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had for so long been his home. The resulting book was a eulogy to the country that produced M
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
Tim Jeal · 608 pages
We think of Stanley as a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo--and the journalist who conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, opening with, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" But these perceptions are not quite true, as biographer Jeal shows. With access to previously closed Stanley family archives, Jeal r
The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
Michael Paterniti · 349 pages
In the picturesque village of Guzma n, Spain, in a cave on the edge of town, there is a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room." This is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets--usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a Spanish cheesemaker as he spun an
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature
Thor Heyerdahl · 276 pages
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Paul Theroux · 530 pages
Beginning in New Zealand and coming to shore in Hawaii, the author explores fifty-one islands along the way in a collapsible kayak.
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
John Gimlette · 358 pages
Intrigued by the tale of a distant ancestor who perished on the Wild Coast in 1630, John Gimlette returns to South America to find out what has become of this primeval land. It is a journey that takes him through the old colonies of British, Dutch and French Guiana, through some of the most fantastic forests in the world and through four hundred years of shameless, and often horrifying, colonial h
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor · 304 pages
The author presents a chronicle of his journey, at the age of 18, on foot across central Europe, through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire, up the Rhine, and down to the Danube, capturing an unrecoverable time in Europe before the devastation of World War II.
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell · 285 pages
My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939.
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Tim Butcher · 363 pages
The author recounts his audacious and perilous quest through the Congo as he retraced the 1874 expedition of explorer H. M. Stanley to map the Congo River, traveling alone with an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and dugout canoe, and aided by characters ranging from U.N. aid workers to a pygmy-rights advocate.
The Colossus of Maroussi
Henry Miller · 244 pages
"The Colossus of Maroussi is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller, which was first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. It is set in pre-war Greece of 1939, and is ostensibly a characterization of the "Colossus" of the title, George Katsimbalis, a poet and raconteur. The work is frequently heralded as Miller's best."--Wikipedia.
The Curse of Lono
Hunter S. Thompson · 205 pages
Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson travels to Hawaii to cover the 1980 Honolulu Marathon.
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
Kira Salak · 379 pages
Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea—often called the last frontier of adventure travel. Traveling by dugout canoe and on foot, confronting the dangers and wonders of a largely untouched world, she became the first woman to traverse this remote country and write about it. A New York Times Notable Tra
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Simon Winchester · 362 pages
Travels into the Interior of Africa
Mungo Park · 386 pages
Istanbul: Memories and the City
Orhan Pamuk · 384 pages
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün—that all Istanbullus share. With cinematic fluidit
Goats from a Small Island
Anna Nicholas · 352 pages
A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
Frances Mayes · 420 pages
The author who captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany expands her horizons to immerse herself--and her readers--in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. This book is a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. She rents houses among ordinar
The Way of the World
Nicolas Bouvier · 309 pages