Books please

Hi

If anyone have some travel literature to recommend it would be greatly appreciated. I'm not looking for fact and map books but some interesting literature. Travel fiction, novel.. something where the character is travelling/backpacking through different countries is a good starting point. Garland's 'The Beach' was really great when I read it but I've been searching for books like this ever since, and it's been a few years.

Regards

Before I left for 77 days in Europe, I read Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden and Other Writings' and 'The Art of Pilgrimage' by Phil Cousineau.

On my trip, I read 'The Beach,' by Alex Garland, 'Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban' and 'Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire,' by J. K. Rowling, and 'Around the World in Eighty Days,' by Jules Verne - all highly recommended travel companions.

For more on my favorite travel books, check out this:
http://www.kahunna.net/books.shtml

Most anything by Bill Bryson. Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon in or Zen and the ARt of Motorcycle Maintenance for the US. Incidents of Travel in the Yucatan for Mexico/Guatemala/Belize.

Check out 'the backpacker' by John Harris (travel in SE asia), or 'the gringo trail' by mark mann (south america)....both good and very 'the beach' like.

Thanks, both of those books look a lot like what I'm looking for and I've already placed an order for the backpacker by john harris.

I wish I could send our travel journals written by my husband when we travelled through Africa (x2) & India - they are worthy of publishing with very little need of editing. He reall y captured the essence & experience of the moment spontaneously. Terrific stuff!! I'd still consider publishing them except the fact they were written 14 years ago & travel in ares of those continents has changed considerably due to political factors.

Kim

One of my favorites is 'Vagabonding in Europe and North Africa' by Ed Buryn. This is a classic from the 1970s. Ed hitchhiked and drove his VW bus. He tells loads of amusing tales interspersed with practical travel

wrote on 4/4/02 11:42 AM:

Bryson is a talented storyteller but somebody at Doubleday needs to hire a few more people in the fact-checking department. In a Sunburned Country is fraught with stupid errors (so far as I got in it before giving up).

For REAL talent, read anything by Karin Muller.