Travel Books to Amuse and Inspire
Discover the best travel books to amuse and inspire your wanderlust. From Eric Newby's *A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush* and Robyn Davidson's *Tracks* to Bruce Chatwin's *The Songlines*, explore gripping biographies and adventurous histories that fuel your next journey.
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Tracks
by Robyn Davidson
The author recounts her almost two-thousand mile journey across Australia with nothing but a dog and some camels for company.
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The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
Fictional account of travels around Alice Springs; place names fictional; concepts of relationship between songs, land and identity.
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
by Eric Newby
The view was colossal. Below us on every side mountains surged away it seemed forever; we looked down on glaciers and snow-covered peaks that perhaps no one has ever seen before, except from the air.' Feeling restless in the world of London's high-fashion industry, Eric Newby asked an old friend to accompany him on a mountain-climbing expedition in the wild and remote Hindu Kush, in north-eastern Afghanistan. And so they went - although they did stop first for four days of climbing lessons in Wales - becoming the first Englishmen to visit this spectacular region for mor ethan half a century. Newby's frank and funny account of their expedition to what is still amongst the world's most isolated areas is one of the classics of travel writing.