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Did your summer travels plans get canceled or postponed during these uncertain times? Are you dreaming about your next vacation? This is a great time to read about places (or listen!) you have always wanted to visit and may visit in the future!

The World

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer

Epic Hikes of the World by Lonely Planet

Epic Bikes Rides of the World by Lonely Planet

Epic Drives of the World by Lonely Planet

Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travels with Animals by David Attenborough and Others-

Asia

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Land of Lost Borders by Kate Harris

Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer

My Country: A Syrian Memoir by Kassem Eid

The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury

Peaks on the Horizon: Two Journeys In Tibet by Charlie Carrol

The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan by Rafia Zakaria

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

All the Way to the Tigers by Mary Morris

Africa

Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saroo-Wiwa

Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure by Julian Smith

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to CapeTown by Paul Theroux

Australia

Tracks: One Woman’s Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davis,

Europe

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

My Twenty- Five Years in Provence by Peter Mayle

The Shepherd’s LIfe by James Rebanks

Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

Greenland

The Ice at the End of the World by Jon Gertner

Canada

The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables by Catherine Reid

Rails Across Canada by David Cable

Canada’s Road: A Journey on the Trans-Canada Highway from St. John’s to Victoria by Mark Richardson

The Great Canadian Bucket List: One of a Kind Travel Experiences by Robin Esrock

The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede

United States

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson,

Epic Solitude by Katherine Keith

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

National Trails of America by Lonely Planet

National Parks of America by Lonely Planet

Mexico, Central and South America

Distance Between Us– Reyna Grande

In the Shadow of the Carmens: Afield with a Naturalist in the Northern Mexican Mountains by Bonnie McKinney

Walking the Americas: 1800 Miles, Eight Countries, and One Incredible Journey from Mexico to Columbia by Levison Wood

The Adventurer’s Son: A Memoir by Roman Dial

Lost City of Z by David Grann

My Invented Country by Isabel Allende

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara

Antarctica

Ice Diaries by Jean McNeil

 

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