Travel books take many forms, so the first I am going to suggest is a book to inspire you about where to travel. You could start with The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
. It gives you a brief overview of every country, which should whet your appetite. I have this book and it has inspired me on several occasions. You could also try a book that is closer to home (assuming you reside in the UK), such as Where to Go When Great Britain and Ireland
, which is another book that I own and have got travel ideas from in the past. There are other related books published by the same company as well if you want to discover the back roads of the UK or elsewhere.A book that was published yesterday, so is hot off the press is Midnight in Siberia - A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia
. Given its newness, I have not been able to read it, but it is a travel narrative of the 6000 mile journey on the Trans-Siberian railway. If you are looking for something more brief, you could try An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)
to get a rather heart-warming series of travel tales.If you are looking for some calm, then you could consider The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
. I have not read this book, but I have read another by the author Pico Iyer about his obsession with Graham Greene
, which I thought was a great book.There is also another travel book, I rather like which is by Andrew McCarthy – the actor turned travel writer, called The Longest Way Home
. You can join him on a journey of discovery about his life, his family and the world.Links to all of the books above, along with a few more suggestions, are below:
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