Excited to be adding these wonderful books to self’s 2019 Reading List. Self loves travel books. It’s been a year since she devoted a reading year to them:
Alan Booth
- The Road to Sata
Alexandra David Neel
- My Journey to Lhasa
Alison Wearing
- Honeymoon in Purdah
Ann Jones
- Lovedu
Anthony Doerr
- Four Seasons in Rome
Best Women’s Travel Writing series
Bill Bryson
- The Lost Continent
- Walk in the Woods
Blair Braverman
- Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
Bruce Chatwin
- In Patagonia
Dervla Murphy
- Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
Ellen Meloy
- Raven’s Exile: A Season on the Green River
Gabrielle Hamilton
- Blood, Bones and Butter
Gretchen Legler
- On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Isabella L. Bird
- Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawai’i’s Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes
Isabelle Eberhardt
- The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
Jamaica Kincaid
- A Small Place
Jan Morris
- Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Julia Child
- My Life in France
Katrina Kittle
- The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America
Kira Salak
- Four Corners: A Journey Into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
Mary Henrietta Kingsley
- Travels in West Africa
Melanie Bowden Simon
- La Americana: A Memoir
Peter Mayle
- A Year in Provence
Rebecca Solnit
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Robyn Davidson
- Desert Places
Stanley Stewart
- In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomads
Suzanne Roberts
- Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail
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