THE ARMCHAIR TRAVELER
Is $4.00 a gallon of gas going to keep you
off the highways this summer?
Have the airlines’ woes become yours?
Let the Manchester Public Library help!
Here is a collection of recent travel books that
will take you where your car won’t—and
the price is right!
Riding With Strangers: a hitchhiker’s journey
Elijah Wald (917.304)
Rory Stewart (915.8104)
American Vertigo: traveling America in the footsteps of Tocqueville
Bernard Henri Levy (917.304)
Phillip Wilson (B Wilson)
Bill Roorbach (974.172)
Where God Was Born: a journey by land to the roots of religion
Bruce Feiler (200.956)
At the Mercy of the River: an exploration of the last African wilderness
Peter Stark (916.799)
Four Corners: a journey into the heart of Papua, New Guina
Kira Salak (910.4)
David Monagan (914.1504)
Man Bites Log: the unlikely adventures of a city guy in the woods
Max Alexander (B Alexander)
Too Much Tuscan Sun: confessions of a Chianti tour guide
Dario Castagno (945.5)
Seasons in Basilicata: a year in a southern Italian hill village
David Yeadon (945.772)
Travels on My Elephant
Mark Shand (915.404)
The Geography of Bliss: one grump’s search for the happiest place in the world
Eric Weiner (910.4)
No Reservations: around the world on an empty stomach
Anthony Bourdain (641.013)
Searching for Crusoe: a journey among the last real islands
Thurston Clarke (910.4)
Paul Theroux (910.4)
Robert Byron (915.604)
Norman Lewis (915.91)
Ilija Trojanow (915.41)
China Road: a journey into the future of a rising power
Rob Gifford (915.06)
ed. by Mark Pearson (914.604)
Peter Hessler (915.138)
Jason Elliot (915.504)
Forest Under My Fingernails: reflections and encounters on the Long Trail
Walt McLauglin (917.43)
A Blistered Kind of Love: one couple’s trial by trail
Angela & Duffy Ballard (917.9)
Sean Condon (914.92)
House in Corfu: a family’s sojourn in Greece
Emma Tennant (949.55)
Ultimate Journey: retracing the path of an ancient Buddist monk who crossed Asia in search of enlightenment
Richard Bernstein (294.392)
The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: close encounters with strangers
Eric Hansen ((910.41)
Eat, Pray, Love: one woman’s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert (B Gilbert)
The Naked Tourist: in search of adventure and beauty in the age of the airport mall
Lawrence Osborne (910.4092)
The Ice Cave: a woman’s adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic
Lucy Jane Bledsoe ((910.4092)
Seaworthy: a swordboat captain returns to the sea
(B) Linda Greenlaw
Little Princes: one man’s promise to bring home the lost children of Nepal
(B) Conor Grennan
Lost and Found in Russia: lives in a post-Soviet landscape
(947.4086) Susan Richards
The Magnetic North: notes from the Arctic circle
(910.911) Sara Wheeler
Crossing the Heart of Africa: an odyssey of love and adventure
(B) Julian Smith
Radio Shangri-La: what I learned from the happiest kingdom on earth
(954.98) Lisa Napoli
Travels in Siberia
(957) Ian Frazier
Beneath the Sands of Egypt: adventures of an unconventional archaeologist
(B) Donald Ryan
Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah’s Beard: a journey through the inside-out worlds
of Iran and Afghanistan
(915.5) Nicholas Jubber
Bombay Smiles
(362.7309) Jaume Sanllorente
Bread of Angels: a journey to love and faith
(956.914) Stephanie Saldana
Dogtown: death and enchantment in a New England ghost town
(917.445) Elyssa East
Tropic of Capricorn: a remarkable journey to the forgotten corners of the world
(910.913) Simon Reeve
Two Coots in a Canoe: an unusual story of friendship
(917.4044) David Morine
A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: exploring and eating off the beaten path
(641.5945) Beth Elon
Running Dry: a journey from source to sea down the Colorado River
(979.913) Jonathan Waterman
Walking Home: a traveler in the Alaskan wilderness, a journey into the human heart
(917.98) Lynn Schooler
In the Empire of Ice: encounters in a changing landscape
(919.804) Gretel Ehrlich
Every Man in this Village is a Liar: an education in war
(956.054) Megan Stack
Every Day in Tuscany: seasons of an Italian life
(945.5) Frances Mayes
Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons: travels in Sicily on a Vespa
(641.5945) Matthew Fort
Traveling with Pomegranates: a mother-daughter story
(B Kidd Family) Sue Monk Kidd
Cold: adventures in the world’s frozen places
(910.911) Bill Streever
Stephen Fry in America: fifty states and the man who set out to see them all
(917.304) Stephen Fry
The Year of Eating Dangerously: a global adventure in search ofculinary extremes
(B) Tom Parker Bowles
Zen and Now: on the trail of Robert Pirsig and the art of motorcycle maintenance
(917.304) Mark Richardson
The Ancient Shore: dispatches from Naples
(914.573) Shirley Hazzard
Blood River: a journey to Africa’s broken heart
(916.751) Tim Butcher
The Lost City of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon
(918.11) David Grann
Roads to Quoz: an American mosey
(917.3) William Least Heat-Moon
Queen of the Road: the true tale of 47 states, 22,000 miles, 200 shoes,
2 cats, 1 poodle, a husband and abus with a will of its own
(917.304) Doreen Orion
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: on the tracks of the great railway bazaar
(915.04) Paul Theroux
No-man’s Lands: one man’s odyssey through the Odyssey
(883.01) Scott Huler
updated 04/2011