Travel Insights - Book Reviews (Full Archive)

Book Reviews: Full Archive

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Europe - Asia - The Americas - Africa/Middle East - Oceania - Adventure - Humour - Historical - Anthologies

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Europe

Neither Here nor There, Bill Bryson - Bill's first book
Clear Waters Rising, Nicholas Crane - inspirational
Round Ireland with a Fridge, Tony Hawks - sounds stupid eh?
Riders to the Midnight Sun, Marc Llewellyn - an epic journey
McCarthy's Bar, Pete McCarthy - excellent read
French Revolutions, Tim Moore - comic cycling adventure
The Creaky Traveler, Warren Rovetch - Scotland for the mobile but not agile (NEW)
The Pillars of Hercules, Paul Theroux - the Grand Tour revisited

Asia

Hong Kong: Epilogue to an Empire, Jan Morris - a classic
The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux - still brilliant after all these years

The Americas

Not Won in a Day, Jack Bennett - Canada's highest peaks
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson - his best ever
America Day by Day, Simone de Beauvoir - Fascinating diary from 1947 (NEW)
The Old Patagonian Express, Paul Theroux - riveting railroad tale
Georgia's Ghostly Getaways, Kathleen Walls - spooky sites and southern history (NEW)

Africa/Middle East

Muddling through in Madagascar, Dervla Murphy - the title says it all (NEW)
The Pillars of Hercules, Paul Theroux - the Grand Tour revisited
Venture to the Interior, Laurens van der Post - a classic slice of colonial Africa (NEW)

Oceania

Down Under, Bill Bryson - Bill returns to form
(This book is published in the US as "In a Sunburned Country")

Adventure

Seven Summits, Steve Bell (ed.) - climbing the world's highest peaks
Not Won in a Day, Jack Bennett - Canada's highest peaks
Clear Waters Rising, Nicholas Crane - inspirational
Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine", Peter Firstbrook - the true first climbers of Everest?
Terra Incognita, Sara Wheeler - superb Antarctica book

Humour

Down Under, Bill Bryson - Bill returns to form
(This book is published in the US as "In a Sunburned Country")
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson - his best ever
Neither Here nor There, Bill Bryson - Bill's first book
Round Ireland with a Fridge, Tony Hawks - sounds stupid eh?
McCarthy's Bar, Pete McCarthy - excellent read
French Revolutions, Tim Moore - comic cycling adventure

Historical

Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine, Peter Firstbrook - the true first climbers of Everest?
Hong Kong: Epilogue to an Empire, Jan Morris - a classic (NEW)
Terra Incognita, Sara Wheeler - superb Antarctica book

Anthologies

Seven Summits, Steve Bell (ed.) - climbing the world's highest peaks
Destinations, Jan Morris - reportage from one of travel writings greats (NEW)
Journeys, Jan Morris - all around the world in this classic