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
• 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
• Gaston Dorren: Lingo
  A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
• Ross E. Dunn: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
  A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
• Tim Flannery: Throwim Way Leg
  - a biologist's adventures in the New Guinea highlands
• Michael Freeman: Cambodia
  - history, food, archaeology, art theft, genocide, films
• 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
• Susanna Hoe: Travels in Tandem
  The Writing of Women and Men Who Travelled Together
• Eleanor Hogan: Alice Springs
  - the other "middle Australia"
• Thomas Keneally: The Place Where Souls Are Born
  A Journey to the Southwest
• Michael Kohn: Mongolia: The Lonely Planet Travel Guide
• Kadio Kolymva: Oia in Santorini
  A journey in space and time
• 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
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Turkish Embassy Letters
  - an aristocratic Englishwoman visits Ottoman Turkey
• Jan Morris: Oxford
  - a potpourri of information about the town and university
• Vojtech Novotny: Notebooks from New Guinea*
  Fieldnotes of a Tropical Biologist
• Josep Pla: Salt Water
  - stories of the north Catalan coast
• David Quammen: The Song of the Dodo*
  Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
• Christopher Robbins: In Search of Kazakhstan
  The Land that Disappeared
• Dawn Rooney: Angkor
  Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples
• Richard Schweld: The Cockroach Papers*
  A Compendium of History and Lore
• Mary Lee Settle: Turkish Reflections
  A Biography of a Place
• 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
• Watkin Tench: 1788: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
  + A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
• Peter Turner, et al.: Indonesia
  - the Lonely Planet travel guide
• Jacob Vossestein: The Dutch and their Delta
  Living below sea level
• Alfred Russel Wallace: Infinite Tropics*
  An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
• Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago
  - travelling, observing, collecting, theorising, ...
• 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.