Travel Memoirs
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This reading list was compiled by Forbes Library librarians as part of the 2011 Novel Destinations Summer Reading program. Novel Destination is sponsored by Friends of Forbes Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Double Take, by Kevin Michael Connolly
Destination: the world
EC7629.A 2009
Bird Cloud, by Annie Proulx
Destination: Wyoming
EP948.A 2011
Paradise, by Larry McMurtry
Destination: Tahiti
EM229.A2 2001
Three Weeks with my Brother, by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
Destination: the world
ESp26.A 2004
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific, by J. Maarten Troost
F1825ZT.T753s 2004
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa, by Peter Godwin
Destination: Zimbabwe
F7427Y.G549w 2007
Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution, by Alma Guillermoprieto, translated by Esther Allen
F973.G945d 2004
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, by Mark Twain G13.T91
First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won my Heart and a Third-World Adventure Changed my Life, by Eve Brown-Waite
G132.B815f 2009
In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
Destination: Australia
G21.B848i 2001
Baghdad Without a Map, and Other Misadventures in Arabia, by Tony Horowitz
G26.H789b 1992
Pilgrimage: A Memoir of Poland and Rome, by James A. Michener
G55.M582p
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar, by Paul Theroux
G60.T343gh 2008
Land of the High Flags: A Travel Memoir of Afghanistan, by Roseanne Klass
G639.K666L
The Places in Between, by Rory Stewart
Destination: Afghanistan
G639.St49p 2006
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away, by Bill Bryson
G83.B848i 1999
The River Queen, by Mary Morris
Destination: The Mississippi
G875.M833r 2007
Have Glove, Will Travel: The Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond, by Bill "Spaceman" Lee with Richard Lally
VKB.31L51h 2005
Category: Biography and Memoir