Summer Travel Books whether a nine month hike or 20000-miles of riding a motorbike, these books will take you to other continents and make you look at the world in a new way.
Good travel writing as well as traveling may teach us a lot about the world and about us. It introduces us to new geographies and to new people whom we are not acquainted with. It expands our opinion about the world and when it is too good, we will be the same as before. For more research you can also visit BBC.
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen is the first one that literally opened my eyes. It was published in 1978. As I read it I felt I was in his shoes and it was a difficult journey with him in the Himalayas. It also educated me quite a lot on the Buddhist concepts and presented a pathetic scene of a family breaking up emotionally.
I was really touched by the profound thoughts of Matthiessen which transformed my life. These people inspired me to be courageous to give a shot at a career in the field of travel. Fortunately, that risk was worth trying! It resulted in a career as an editor and writer of travel stories in such publications as the San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle, Salon, Lonely Planet, National Geographic, and the BBC.
Most Appropriate to the Wide-Horizon Wanderers Free Ride, by Noraly Schoenmaker
Free Ride is a story of a 20,000 mile motorcycle trip. It began as a fast ride in India to Malaysia, then a trip without a companion through Middle East and Central Asia and a ride back home to Schoenmaker in the Netherlands. The journey started due to her finding out that her live-in partner was engaged in long-term affair and she was devastated. Due to this, traveling was one way of reinventing herself on her part.
The book excerpt, which is located in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, actually presented the hard sections and the wonderful payoffs of the lengthy voyage of Schoenmaker:
I was shivering, I was frightened, I was alone. However, at the same time I knew: at no place in the world I could wish to be more than here. In spite of the challenges of the cold Pamir, I was head over heels in love with this area of the world and I had fallen in love with this area of the world pretty much at the first glimpse. I could feel it that all this that had occurred to me, all my ruined relationship, all the things that had to happen so that I could sell my house, all those things that I tried to become were all in a greater plan to be where I was when the thought entered my mind. Quite, alone, on the Pamir. I would have liked to remain here ever, in this wilderness.
Most Suitable to long-Haul Pursuers Northbound, by Naomi Arnold
Northbound Northbound tells the story of an adventure, the 3,000 kilometers (1900 mi) walk in New Zealand North Island on the Te Araroa trail, completed in nine months by Naomi Arnold, alone. This path is lined up from the South islands lowest point, Bluff, all the way to Cape Reinga in the northern end of the North Island.
Beginning on Boxing Day, 2023, the phenomenally grueling trek of Arnold will take her over some of the most rugged and most treacherous terrain in New Zealand. Through her, one can see life through her eyes as she carefully observes every step of her journey and draws the reader not only into the depths of her journey but also into what the trail means to her and all its mud, pain and cold, and the beauty of it all. Arnold accompanies these descriptions with keen and candid descriptions of the challenges she grinds through, including blisters, fungal infections, loneliness, and planning gaffes.
As the progression continues, observation and personal transformation portrayed by Arnold are so vivid to the extent that this is clearly depicted in the middle of her story as indicated in this excerpt:
A long and steep ridge rising to 1462m Mt Crawford across the floor of the valley took me the whole day. I paced rainforest with pihikete kawaka and miromiromiro leaping in and out of the rain-dripping trees of rimu, matai, mamaku, the trees with their big balls of moss, the ground with ecstatic outbursts of ferns of the crown. Spider webs threading between the trees were glowing with diamonds of moisture, trembling in sun rays of white-misted light…. The underenlightenment altered everything. One of them struck thickly moss-grown tree and I could suddenly see the true shape, the real skeleton of the tree, tough under its fluffy green coat, made visible by sunlight like a pair of legs through a sunlit skirt.”
Best on the Road Hopeless Romantics On the Hippie Trail, by Rick Steves
Very much earlier than Rick Steves became a widely-known tourist, he had been a young teacher of piano who liked traveling. A year later in 1978, he crossed the so called hippie trail, Istanbul to Kathmandu. He recorded what he witnessed within a changing world.
On the Hippie Trail is the mere edition of the old journal of Rick Steves. It portrays him as a young man who really loves the world. He gets thrilled by its hazards as well as its goodies. On every page you can see his innocent wonder and eagerness. Even so are his straightforward accounts of local ways and manners. All this foreshadows the renowned traveler of which he would become.
The Easier Way I Would Describe Such Scene in Central Kathmandu is as Follows
In Durbar Square I became absolutely lost. The place was dirty, dusty, shabby, having tall and tiered temples and fruit and vegetable stalls. People were suffering, begging and doing rituals, undernourished, starving bodies were all praying. Children, being oblivious of it all, played tag among the Buddha statues. Also there were rickshaws and bread carts.
it would have been untouched ten years ago since modern things such as cars, and tourists were not present on that land. though with long-haired, quaintly dressed travellers sitting about on stone temple-steps, and passing cabs honking as they passed, it happened also to be a place I wanted to remain.
Suitable to Religious Pilgrims Fiesta, Daniel Stables
Fiesta is an episodic book, which is at times interesting and at times reflective. It considers the most fascinating and the most impressive worldwide festivals. What the book does is to find out what these festivals depict about the fact that human beings require rituals and relationships.
Being motivated by the interest, Stables devoted 10 years of his life to studies and visits of numerous festivals across the world. In his book, he establishes 11 types of festivals, starting with festivals of identity and containing such festivals as the ones of altered states, tribalism, and even utopia. He is able to lend life to them through his first hand experiences and researches.
He spins with whirling dervishes in Turkey, participates in Carnival in Venice and cogitates about spiritual aspect of the Green Gathering in Wales.
Most Appropriate to Distance Near Home Travellers, Go West, by Steve Silk
Go West is the fun book of Steve Silk who travelled on a bike in England and Wales proving that you do not have to travel meters to get a big travel experience.
Silk, a BBC Look East worker currently wanted to cycle 8 days to the Welsh seaside, starting in London. Very early in the book he informs me of his aspirations as, “because what is my kind of journey?” Apparently, it is the type of slow travel that is in love with in-between places. Travelling the type of towns and villages you pass with your car which you won’t, can, or don’t miss out talking two wheels. And my new Law of Cycling Serendipity suggests that at these places that these seem to be the unexpected highlights; the character actors (so to speak!) which steal the show.
Most Suitable to be Found by History Buffs Small Earthquakes, by Shafik Meghji
This author, travel writer, and journalist (Shafik Meghji) discusses different destinations, which go in the book Small Earthquakes (from Atacama to Fuego, Easter Island to South Georgia). He reveals the frequently overlooked, but very powerful and enduring relations between Britain and Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.
Meghji with a vast experience of traveling and researching the area concentrates on variety of richly expressed places with more than 15 years experience in the area. These comprise faded ghost towns, rusting whaling stations, remote railways constructed by convicts, and even welsh speaking Patagonian tea rooms. He also introduces us to other interesting characters such as daring pirates, Victorian missionaries, rogue MPs and polar explorers and Patagonian cowboys.
FAQ’s:
Books that make you curious to go travelling?
To read during a travelling, choose the book in the genre–romance or escapist, family drama or celeb-focused glamor, young adult romance or romantic beach read, such as People We Meet on Vacation, the novel Malibu Rising, or The Summer I Turned Pretty series.
Travel books get out in 2024?
Yes, there are some travel books that are released in 2024. Two of them are in fact, the article by Ash Bhardwaj, titled, Why we Travel and another by Paige McClanahan known as the New Tourist. Best in Travel 2024 from Lonely planet was released in reality in October 2023.
Summer dreamscape tales on the road?
It is not exactly the directly related phrase to the idea of Stephen King Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Summer dreamscape tales on the road does more seem to be a broad, evocative term to travel stories and may have a dreamy, and perhaps surreal or exploratory atmosphere and is often about summer road-trips. Some of the stories written by the King could be suited to such vibe (namely, the ones featuring creepy interstate interactions), but the phrase itself does not refer to these works directly.
Future wanderlust traveling books?
There are a few coming out and already published by next year (2025) that wanderlust should be inspired by. The novel Northbound written by Naomi Arnold documents an expedition of 3,000km across New Zealand. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley is a combination of near-future London and the past Arctic settings. David Nicholls You Are Here, documents interactions along the Coast to Coast Path, which is located in England. To the person interested in public art, The World Atlas of Public Art gives the globally practiced works. The book within the title, Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands is by Annie Worsley, which takes a glance at the wild nature of Scotland.
Travel books taken in easy reading in warm weather?
When you want something light, beach-friendly, the three books of the choice are Elin Hilderbrand. The Hotel Nantucket, Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation, and Nina George: The Little Paris Bookshop.
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