Best travel Writing - Top 10 travel Novels

It's hard to find great tour writing, but it's out there. Part of the hypothesize for this is that so much tour writing is also thought about nature writing or narrative non-fiction. Part of the hypothesize is that the field is so competitive because of a lot of good authors competitive for a relatively small store space. But there is a wide array of great tour fiction out there, and here is my list of the best ten tour novels I've read over the past merge years.

10) through Painted Deserts, by Donald Miller. This is one I nothing else but found in the "Christian Non-Fiction" section, which can be unfair. There's no inquire Miller is a Christian, but he's a writer first and foremost, he's not preachy, and his questioning of his own faith, of reasons for existence, of who and what he is or is becoming is reminiscent of the splendid soul searching that came from the tour writing of the Beat generation. Miller's catalogue of his trip is great, going through the moments of beauty, the necessity of good road trip music, and admitting his moments of embarrassment and fear as freely as any other part of his journey.

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9) Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald. The early reading of this book can be hard, because after the first few chapters there's a lot of the Western perspective, the whining of living conditions and poverty, the type of scorn you don't care to read from tour writing. I'm glad I read the rest, because like "Through Painted Deserts," "Holy Cow" is about the author's journey. Sarah evolves and changes episode to episode in front of you as she sheds the scornful nature of an atheist "too smart" to fall for superstition, and she opens up, traveling through India and sampling all the separate religious beliefs and practices as she becomes a humble Theist who learns happiness, learns to grow, and learns that alien cultures can have a lot to offer the open traveler.

8) Into the Wild by John Krakauer. I first caught sight of this book at a Barnes and Noble on one of the highlight tables. I was on winter break from Alaska and visiting house in Iowa. I picked up the book, sat down, and read the entire work in one sitting. tour book, journalistic book, nature book, adventure book-whatever you call it, this is one heck of a read, and the deliberate upon this book causes is deep and passionate. As a wanderlust traveler, I understand the drive the main character feels, as an Alaskan, I understand the native perspective of irritation, of the lack of comprehension that nature is brutal and especially Alaska needs to be respected as such.

7) Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown, by Paul Theroux. Paul Theroux is at his best in "Dark Star Safar," where his skills of notice and his dry wit are on full display. Paul takes readers the distance of Africa via overcrowded rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train in a journey that is hard to forget. There are moments of beauty, but there are also many moments of misery and danger. This is a narration of Africa that goes beyond the skin deep to dare to look at the deeper core of what is often referred to as "The Dark Continent."

6) Blue Highways: A Journey Into America, by William Least Heat-Moon. This is an auto-biographical tour journey taken by Heat-Mean in 1978. After separating from his wife and losing his job, Heat-Moon decided to take an extended road trip colse to the United States, sticking to "Blue Highways," a term to refer to small out of the way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue in the old Rand McNally atlases). So Heat-Moon outfits his van, named "Ghost Dancing" and takes off on a 3-month soul-searching tour of the United States. The book chronicles the 13,000 mile journey and the population he meets along the way, as he steers clear of cities and interstates, avoiding fast food and exploring local American culture on a journey that is just as splendid today as when he first took the journey.

5) The Lost Continent, by Bill Bryson. There are tons of splendid Bill Bryson books out there, and any one of them could hold this spot here. "The Lost Continent" is Bryson's trip over America, visiting some tasteless places (the grand canyon), but also exploring the back roads and looking for that familiarity that helps him remember home.

4) Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventures and Romance by Pico Iyer. Probably one of the best tour writing collections released in up-to-date memory, this range is under the name Pico Iyer, who helped to edit this collection. These stories come from the "Wanderlust" section of Salon.com and originate a various tapestry of tour writing that will keep the reader flipping from one writer to another.

3) A Walk over America by Peter Jenkins. This is one of the all time contemporary classics in tour literature, as Peter Jenkins recalls the story of his 1973-1975 walk from New York to New Orleans. For many readers, this remains a rare tour book that grips you and keeps you. Known as a tour writer who will walk anywhere, together with Alaska and China, Peter Jenkins says, "I started out searching for myself and my country and found both." That sums up what tour writing should be all about.

2) Travels w/ Charlie by John Steinbeck. This was a novel that helped John Steinbeck win a Nobel Prize in Literature. "Travels with Charlie" is a splendid tour narrative that gets to the heart of travel, the point of the trip, and the strange confrontation and realization that the places and population you remember are gone once you are. As he revisits the places of his youth that many of his books are based on, he realizes on looking old friends that they're as uncomfortable with him being back as he is with being there. A great story about travel, about home, about mourning lost history, about aging, and about America-this should be required reading for every high school student.

1) The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac. The beat generation was full of great tour narratives, and Jack Kerouac was the master of powerful, moving, passionate language that unfolded stories like few population have ever managed. While "On the Road" is the most often pointed to tour narrative by Kerouac, "The Dharma Bums" is a best book. Full of passion, absorbing characters and stories, and the kind of passionate language and marvelous prose that made the beat generation writers popular, this Kerouac book is splendid and deserving of its amount one spot.

Best travel Writing - Top 10 travel Novels