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 Ellen Around the World Ellen Post Count: 102 Msg: #1 129 weeks ago, July 8th 2007 | When I'm not on the road, I love reading travel books. I'm interested to hear about your favourite travel tales? Mine include: | - '3 Men in a Raft' & '5 months in a leaky boat' - Ben Kozel - 'Lost in Transmission' - Jonathon Harley - 'Holy Cow' - Sarah MacDonald - 'The Cloud Garden' - Tom Hart Dyke & Paul Winder - 'When in Rome' - Penny Green - 'Almost French' - Sarah Turnball - 'Shantaram' - Gregory David Roberts Cheers, Ellen  Jezz in NZ Jeremy Post Count: 7 Msg: #2 127 weeks ago, July 16th 2007 | I have to admit the only one on your list I've read is "Shantaram", and while it's undoubtedly a gripping read, descriptions of serving time in an Indian jail are one travel experience I can do without. | My own list: "Shadow of the Silk Road" - Colin Thubron "Behind the Wall" - Colin Thubron "Congo Journey" - Redmond O'Hanlon "In Patagonia" - Bruce Chatwin "The Great Railway Bazaar" - Paul Theroux "Passage to Juneau" - Jonathan Raban "The Road to Oxiana" - Robert Byron  katydid Cathy Giles Post Count: 14 Msg: #3 126 weeks ago, July 25th 2007 | Two amazing reads I can think of offhand are: | Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing The Dolphin's Tooth: A decade in Search of Adventure by Bruce Kirkby Ellen Around the World Ellen Post Count: 102 Msg: #4 126 weeks ago, July 25th 2007 | Thanks Jezz & Cathy - I've added them to my list! |  CanadianViking Josh N Post Count: 41 Msg: #5 126 weeks ago, July 25th 2007 | Here's some of my favourites: | Dove by Robin Leigh Graham Paddle to the Amazon and Paddle to the Arctic by Don Starkell Amazon Extreme, Lost in Mongolia and Beyond the Horizon by Colin Angus (Incidentally Ellen, I noticed Ben Kozel was on your list of authors. Ben Kozel and Colin Angus were actually travel partners in both of his books you've listed. I'm interested in hearing Ben's side of the story and I'm sure you'd be interested in hearing Colin's.) Ellen Around the World Ellen Post Count: 102 Msg: #6 126 weeks ago, July 26th 2007 | Thanks Josh - will do. I have actually been in touch with Ben Kozel - he's living in Adelaide and has just had a baby - so no more adventures for the time being! | La pomme d Eve La Parisienne Post Count: 18 Msg: #7 126 weeks ago, July 28th 2007 | The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. (Morocco) | Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. (UK) The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. (Afghanistan) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Aliocha by Henri Troyat. (France/Russia) Anything by Mark Twain.  Andy Horsman Andrew Horsman Post Count: 32 Msg: #8 120 weeks ago, September 4th 2007 | Good shout, Ellen - I'm addicted to travel books too, especially older ones! | The Isles of Oceania - Paul Theroux Behind The Wall - Colin Thubron Among The Russians - Colin Thubron Eastern Visas - Audrey Harris The Marsh Arabs - Wilfred Thesiger Travels - Marco Polo Travels with a Tangerine - Tim Mackintosh-Smith Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - The Crane Twins Big Red Train Ride - Eric Newby  denidax Deni and Dax Post Count: 77 Msg: #9 120 weeks ago, September 6th 2007 | I like reading about discovering, not only travelling and I am very interested in "old travellers", people who dare to go to places that were supossed not to exist: | The travels of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354 - by him, but translated by H. Gibb Among the Tibetans- Isabella Lucy Bird (1894) Twilight in the Forbidden City (1934)- Reginald Fleming Johnston The farthest North- Fridtjof Nansen The incredible Journey- by Marco Polo but translated by Robin Brown Across Asia on a bicycle:the journey ot 2 american students from Constantinople to Peking (1890)- by Allen Jr. Thomas GAskell and William Lewis Sachtleben The list is long...  Marcoelitaliano Marco Daprile Post Count: 100 Msg: #10 118 weeks ago, September 18th 2007 | "From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium" by William Dalrymple | "Travels with Charley: In Search of America" by John Steinbeck "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad (altough, strictly speaking, this is a novel) Number of Users: 8 | Number of Posts: 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
