From ‘Moby-Dick’ to ‘After Dark’: Book Picks For Travelers
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.25.07 | 11:04 AM ET
We’ve got our Three Great Books feature and our list of the 30 best travel books. Salon has its Literary Guide to the World. And this weekend the Guardian and the Financial Times recommend more books for travelers. The Guardian turns to several of the world’s most traveled writers to find out the most memorable books of their travels. Among them: Bill Bryson, who picked up Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin and Jeffrey Archer’s Kane and Abel in a Norwegian charity shop; Pico Iyer, who read Graham Greene’s The Comedians by candlelight in a hotel in Bhutan; and Jenny Diski, who read Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick while in a boat sailing around the Antarctic Peninsula.
In the Financial Times, Melissa McClements selects 45 books for 24 destinations, summing up most of her picks in just a sentence or two. Among her recommendations: Haruki Murakami’s After Dark (Japan), Boris Akunin’s Special Assignments (Russia) and Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (England).
Related on World Hum:
* World Hum’s Top 30 Travel Books
* Touring Literary Los Angeles: City of Chandler, Bukowski and Fante
* ‘No Particular Place to Go’: A BBC Radio Celebration of Great Works of British Travel Literature
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
