I read both Rick and Cameron's travel memoirs last year and thoroughly enjoyed them. I'd love to find another travel writer to add to my reading list this year. Any suggestions?
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Niagara, Ontario
1755 posts
Michael Palin is charming and witty. Anything by him.
I didn't always agree with his line of thinking but A.A.Gill could either be blunt, terribly nasty or terribliy funny: sometimes all three at the same time.
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Salem, Oregon, USA
3198 posts
You might try the classic Mark Twain "The Innocents Abroad" - I found it timely commentary on people and traveling, even if it is 150+ years old. I liked "A Year in Provence" by Peter Mayle. "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson (yes I know, not Europe, but it is SO FUNNY).
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Los Angeles by way of Providence and Rome
662 posts
Paul Theroux's books are oldies but goodies. Asia, Africa, South America. I don't care for his more recent work but his original accounts of local travel in faraway places really capture the experience.
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Canada: True North Strong and Free
394 posts
Bill Bryson is my favourite travel writer.