Top Ten Tuesday: Books for Armchair Travelers
No time or funds for exotic trips? No worries.
Here are some books which will take you to those spots free of charge!
Italy:
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (Cinqueterre)
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Venice)
Spain:
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Barcelona)
To the Field of Stars: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela by Kevin Codd (The Camino)
India and Sri Lanka:
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Malabar Coast of Southern India, in the state of Kerala)
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (Old Delhi and Kashmir)
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan (Jaffna in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka)
The continent of Africa:
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré (Nigeria)
West With the Night by Beryl Markham (Kenya)
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
East Asia:
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Vietnam)
Pachinko by Min Lin Lee (South Korea)
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner (Cambodia)
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (Kamchatka, Eastern Russia)
Australia and New Zealand
Island Home by Tim Winton (Western Australia)
Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump (New Zealand)
The Americas
In Darkness by Nick Lake (Haiti)
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (Chile)
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede (Newfoundland, Canada)
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton (USA)
I could go on but will stop. I will also be taking notes on your lists to give me idea of good books to read about your reading around-the-world experiences.
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