travel

Book Reviews

• David Attenborough: Life on Air
  Memoirs of a Broadcaster
• Murray Bail: Homesickness*
  - an Australian tour group in a surreal world
• Edwin Bernbaum: Sacred Mountains of the World*
  - religion and spirituality; glorious photographs
• Andrew Berry: Infinite Tropics*
  An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
• Jane Blunden: Mongolia: The Bradt Travel Guide
• Alain de Botton: The Art of Travel
  - using artists and writers as guides to travel
• Gerald Brenan: South From Granada
  - settling in an Andalusian village with 2000 books
• Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana
  - travels in Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930s
• Bill Dalton: Indonesia Handbook
• Christopher De Bellaigue: In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs
  A Memoir of Iran
• Ross E. Dunn: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
  A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
• Nick Garbutt, J. Cede Prudente: Wild Borneo
  The wildlife and scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan
• William Golding: A Moving Target
  - short pieces on travel and writing
• Rob Goodfellow: The Green Iguana
  - vignettes of life as an Australian expatriate in Bali and Java
• Thomas Keneally: The Place Where Souls Are Born
  A Journey to the Southwest
• Michael Kohn: Mongolia: The Lonely Planet Travel Guide
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Dancing at the Edge of the World*
  Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
• Claude Lévi-Strauss: Tristes Tropiques
  - travels in Brazil: "I hate travelling and explorers"
• Peter Matthiessen: Baikal
  Sacred Sea of Siberia
• John McPhee: Annals of the Former World**
  - travels across the United States with geologists
• David Quammen: The Song of the Dodo*
  Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
• Christopher Robbins: In Search of Kazakhstan
  The Land that Disappeared
• Richard Schweld: The Cockroach Papers*
  A Compendium of History and Lore
• James W. Spain: The Way of the Pathans
  - hospitality, revenge, and sanctuary in Pakistan and Afghanistan
• Frank Stewart: The Presence of Whales
  Contemporary Writings on the Whale
• Peter Turner, et al.: Indonesia
  - the Lonely Planet travel guide
• Yang Ye: Vignettes From the Late Ming
  A Hsiao-p'in Anthology

See also: bushwalking | exploration

For my own writing, see my Wandering Danny travelogues and my Australian travel and bushwalking pages.