*The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds* –Caroline Van Hemert
*The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World* –Eric Weiner
*The Comfort Crisis* –Michael Easter
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Patrick Leigh Fermor’s trilogy starting with *A Time of Gifts* – he travelled on foot as a teenager with very little money from the west coast of the Netherlands to Istanbul starting at the end of 1933 and arriving in Istanbul at the start of ’35.
Fermor was a formidable linguist but also an adventurer (something that came in handy a few years later in the SOE fighting the Germans undercover in Crete). Variously he stayed with aristocrats relying on letters of introduction, relies on the hospitality of monasteries and sleeps rough in the countryside. It’s a snapshot of Europe just before WW2.
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B. Chatwin, What am I doing here
Ya can’t beat Eat, Pray, Love for this
*Horizon* –Barry Lopez
*The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds* –Caroline Van Hemert
*The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World* –Eric Weiner
*The Comfort Crisis* –Michael Easter
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s trilogy starting with *A Time of Gifts* – he travelled on foot as a teenager with very little money from the west coast of the Netherlands to Istanbul starting at the end of 1933 and arriving in Istanbul at the start of ’35.
Fermor was a formidable linguist but also an adventurer (something that came in handy a few years later in the SOE fighting the Germans undercover in Crete). Variously he stayed with aristocrats relying on letters of introduction, relies on the hospitality of monasteries and sleeps rough in the countryside. It’s a snapshot of Europe just before WW2.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_of_Gifts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_of_Gifts)
Anything by Levison Wood.
“Walking The Nile” is probably my favourite of his