PART 1: The Ecclectic Traveler
My preference is for travel books devoted to a single adventure. I started to make an exception and buy collections of travels. Some of the books are built around a theme--the most remote outposts or others simply write a series of eclectic adventures in one book. Here's my collection. 1. Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire, Simon Winchester (2004) . Winchester traveled over 100,000 miles to vestiges of the British Empire including Diego Garcia, the Falkland Islands and the most remote island on earth, Ascension Island. Bought new. 2. The Offensive Traveler, V.S. Pritchett (1967). Pritchertt says he is an offensive not in the sense that he travels in a state of arrogance or complaining but that he is always observing and watching the private lives of other people where he is an outsider. Wonderful essays on Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran and Spain. Bought used but can't remember...