If you liked
Books like Travel, Tourism and Identity
Loved Travel, Tourism and Identity by Gabriel R. Ricci? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from travel, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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A Walk in the Woods
Two unfit friends attempt the Appalachian Trail; very funny, with real love for wild places.
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Flâneuse
In Flâneuse, Lauren Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationship t
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The sick bag song
Chronicles Cave's journey with his band, the Bad Seeds, on a 22-day North American tour. It is a highly personal account that blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics, flights of fancy and road journa
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Impressions of Southern Italy
"Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder: earthquakes, malaria, bandits, inhospitable inns, few roads and appalling food. O
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Unspeakable Awfulness
"The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar 'Grand Tour' of thei
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Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road
A study of American women s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expan
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The tao of travel
A collection of writings from Paul Theroux's fifty years of travel. Included are writings from other travelers such as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway and many others.
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Forms in early modern utopia
"Though much has been written about connections between early modern utopia and nascent European imperialism, Nina Chordas brings a fresh perspective to the topic by exploring it through some of the s
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The fourth part of the world
In 1901, Josef Fischer accidentally discovered the Waldseemuller Map of 1507 - the first map to depict the world largely as we know it. This book tells the story of the voyagers and thinkers who creat
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Travel writing
A clever, gentle first novel – that comes with a glowing endorsement from Dave Eggers – about a love story and a mystery, about story telling, the blurred line between fact and fiction, and an early m