6 Best travel books like The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks

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The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

By: Tim Parks

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to a…

If you liked the travel plot in The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Shakespeare: The World as Stage

By: Bill Bryson

3.81

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series… read more

Similar categories in Bill Bryson's Shakespeare: The World as Stage book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be--I weep to say it--Elizabeth I."

-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

"So it needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment—actually all of it, every bit—involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. Shakespeare “never owned a …"

-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

"(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at …"

-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample l…"

-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

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2. Gironimo! Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy

By: Tim Moore

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The 1914 Giro d'Italia: The hardest bike race in history. Eighty-one riders started and only eight … read more

Similar categories in Tim Moore's Gironimo! Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
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3. The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy

By: Joe McGinniss

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Master storyteller Joe McGinniss travels to Italy to cover the unlikely success of a ragtag minor l… read more

Similar categories in Joe McGinniss's The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • italy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • travel

4. Enemy Women

By: Paulette Jiles

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens dev… read more

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5. Family Album

By: Penelope Lively

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six m… read more

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6. Death in Brittany (Commissaire Dupin #1)

By: Jean-Luc Bannalec

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

At the Central Hotel in Pont-Aven, Brittany, ninety-one-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is fou… read more

Similar categories in Jean-Luc Bannalec's Death in Brittany (Commissaire Dupin #1) book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • audiobook

7. A Realm Divided: England in 1215

By: Dan Jones

3.93

Format: 300 pages,

1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history … read more

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8. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's Act of Oblivion book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • audiobook
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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9. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By: Craig Brown

4.26

Format: 642 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinatin… read more

Similar categories in Craig Brown's One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14) book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • audiobook
Cover of Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland

11. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

Similar categories in Tom Holland's Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • italy
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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12. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. The Porpoise

By: Mark Haddon

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

‘I really am so very, very sorry about this,’ he says, in an oddly formal voice… They strike the si… read more

Similar categories in Mark Haddon's The Porpoise book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • audiobook
"Mama is thirty-seven weeks pregnant."

-Mark Haddon, The Porpoise

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14. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

By: Ross King

3.98

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzli… read more

Similar categories in Ross King's The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • italy
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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15. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

By: Anthony Seldon

4.22

Format: 662 pages, Hardcover

***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Seldon's Johnson at 10: The Inside Story book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
Cover of Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen

16. Budapest: Between East and West

By: Victor Sebestyen

4.29

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarot… read more

Similar categories in Victor Sebestyen's Budapest: Between East and West book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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17. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela

By: William Neuman

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Named Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2022 and the National Endowment for Democracy Notable Books of … read more

Similar categories in William Neuman's Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. Grote verwachtingen: In Europa 1999-2019

By: Geert Mak

4.21

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

Een verbluffende geschiedenis van ons heden, waarin de eerste twee decennia van dit meest fragiele … read more

Similar categories in Geert Mak's Grote verwachtingen: In Europa 1999-2019 book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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19. Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

By: Kathleen Sheppard

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt an… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Sheppard's Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain by Tim Moore

20. Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By: Tim Moore

4.27

Format: None pages, ebook

Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero'… read more

Similar categories in Tim Moore's Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • travel
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks

21. The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

By: Tim Parks

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to a… read more

Similar categories in Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna book and Tim Parks's The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

  • italy
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • walking
  • audiobook

14 Best audiobook books like The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks

Transform Your Habits

Shakespeare: The World as Stage

Bill Bryson

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Death in Brittany (Commissaire Dupin #1)

Jean-Luc Bannalec

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Act of Oblivion

Robert Harris

4.07

Transform Your Habits

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Craig Brown

4.26

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14 Top audiobook books like Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

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