| Subject: Re: Books by Travel Writers |
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Some of my favorites: My Family and Other Animals by Geraldo Durrell
(brother of Lawrence) - Hilarious! About the Durrell family and their move
to Corfu - Anyone who has traveled in Greece for any length of time will love
this!!! It is so Greek in feeling.
A Walk Across France by Miles Morland - with his French wife, the author left
his rather lucrative practice in a brokerage firm in London and walked from
the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. This book is wonderful fluff in the same
vein as the Peter Mayle books - but truly enjoyable - especially if one knows
the south of France.,
A Woman's Passion for Travel - Wonderful short stories by female authors
(many of whom are well known) about travel with friends, husbands, lovers,
children, alone, etc - all entertaining and very interesting - also about
relationships (don't be put off by the climbing photo and the mt. peak on the
cover! This is not a hiking book per se)
Yak Butter &Black Tea - by Wade Brackenbury. Wonderful, exciting account of
venturing into the unknown and forbidden parts of Tibet from China - Really
an exciting book!
Annapurna - a Woman's Place- by Arlene Blum - fantastic account of the first
successful ascent by women on Annapurna -- Really about cooperation and how
the climb was completed.
Climbing High - Lene Gammelgaard - a deeply moving account of the Everest
tragedy (she was a member of Scott Fisher's group) - by the first Danish
woman to summit Everest - It is part of her personal journal. This book is
nothing like Into Thin Air - Krakauer's book - (not that his book was bad -
quite the contrary - it is just very different)
Happy reading everyone! Susie, Newton, MA |