In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
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1. Arabian Sands
By: Wilfred Thesiger
4.19
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty … read more
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- classics
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- travelogue
"I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of…"-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
"Yet I wondered fancifully if he had seen more clearly than they did, had sensed the threat which my presence implied – the approaching disintegration of his society and the destruction of ‘his belief…"-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
"I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents on which I had happened in the Syrian desert and where I had spent t…"-Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
2. The Book of Secrets
By: M.G. Vassanji
3.51
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room … read more
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3. Travels in Siberia
By: Ian Frazier
3.91
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, t… read more
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- biography
- history
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- travelogue
"Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can."-Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia
"In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar."-Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia
"Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths—or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians aboveground in Russia today."-Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia
"Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. As the cars came near, I saw that they were connected back to front by a loop made of two seat belts buckled to each other. That…"-Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia
4. Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library)
By: Sara Wheeler
3.60
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long an… read more
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- biography
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- travelogue
5. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
By: Paul Theroux
4.06
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
National BestsellerIn Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took th… read more
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- history
- memoir
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"Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel."-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
"You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time."-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
"Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life."-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
"The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road."-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
6. Patagonia Express
By: Luis Sepúlveda
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Los muchos miles de lectores de Luis Sepulveda ya conocen su gran pasion: viajar, deambular por el … read more
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8. The Road to Oxiana
By: Robert Byron
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1933 the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Be… read more
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- classics
- history
- adventure
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- nonfiction
- travelogue
9. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more
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10. The Great Railway Bazaar
By: Paul Theroux
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining… read more
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- memoir
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11. The Birthday Boys
By: Beryl Bainbridge
3.86
Format: 416 pages,
In this stunning novel, award-winning author Beryl Bainbridge offers a fictionalized account of the… read more
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12. Enduring Patagonia
By: Gregory Crouch
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Patagonia is a strange and terrifying place, a vast tract of land shared by Argentina and Chile whe… read more
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13. A Time of Gifts
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from … read more
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14. The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
By: Paul Theroux
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Award-winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboardThe Old Patagonian Express by Train thro… read more
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15. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
By: Paul Theroux
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
In Dark Star Safarithe wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the l… read more
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16. My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
By: Isabel Allende
4.13
Format: None pages,
Isabel Allende's first memory of Chile is of a house she never knew. The "large old house" on the C… read more
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17. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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- classics
- biography
- history
- memoir
- adventure
- literature
- travel
- nonfiction
- travelogue
- nature
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
18. Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
By: Mark Adams
3.64
Format: 211 pages,
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19. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
20. The Book of Patagonia: Its History from Magellan to our days
By: Juan Manuel Herrera Traybel
3.82
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
The Book of Patagonia is a wonderful chronicle of this place known as "the end of the world". Page… read more
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21. The End of the Morning
By: Charmian Clift
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.‘In those days the end of the morning was always… read more
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