
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. For the rules see her blog.
The topic today is Books that Feature Travel and the books I’ve chosen feature different types of travelling in a variety of countries – on a bicycle, on boats and ocean liners, as well as on foot. I’ve read all of them except for Sea Change, which is still sat on my bookshelves.










- Full Tilt: Dunkirk to Delhi on a Bicycle, first published in 1965 by Dervla Murphy this is an account of her journey in 1963, which took her through Europe, Persia (Iran), Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India.
- Maiden Voyages by Siân Evans – transatlantic travel between the two World Wars on magnificent ocean liners undertaken by many women. Some travelled for leisure, some for work; others to find a new life, marriage, to reinvent themselves or find new opportunities.
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. She travelled to Italy (Eat), India (Pray) and Indonesia (Love) spending four months in each place, searching for pleasure in Italy, mainly through food, God in India at an ashram, and balance in Indonesia.
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson about his hike along the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world.
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome, first published in 1889. He intended it to be a serious travel book about the Thames, its scenery and history, but, as he wrote it turned into a funny book. It’s a story of a journey, comparing their trip to Stanley’s expedition to Africa searching for Dr Livingstone.
- A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor in which he describes his travels on foot in 1933 from the Hook of Holland through Germany, to Austria, Slovakia and Hungary, on his way to Constantinople.
- The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane, with a map showing the places he visited from the cliffs of Cape Wrath, to the holloways of Dorset, the storm-beaches of Norfolk, the saltmarshes and estuaries of Essex, and the moors of Rannoch and the Pennines.
- Wildwood: a Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin about his journeys through a wide variety of trees and woods in various parts of the world. It’s a memoir, a travelogue and also it’s about the interdependence of human beings and trees
- The Marches Border Walks With My Father by Rory Stewart walking in the borderlands between England and Scotland, along Hadrian’s Wall and his coast to coast walk from Cunbria Cumbria to Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Sea Change: The Summer Voyage from East to West Scotland of the Anassa by Mairi Hedderwick, describing her journey in an antiquated 26-foot long yacht through the Caledonian Canal to the fjords of the west: Lochs Linnhe, Etive, Ailort, Moidart, Nevis and Leven.
Wildwood sounds good.
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I’ve yet to read a Bill Bryson book somehow. I need to remedy that! Thanks for the reminder :)
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I really like your selection here, Margaret! I’m especially glad to see one by Bill Bryson. I really like the books of his that I’ve read!
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I have a couple of Bill Bryson’s books on my TBR. I hope to get around to reading them this year.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/lost-in-translation-eleven-favorite-translated-fiction/
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I’ve not read any of these, but I’ve certainly heard of several of them. Nice topic this week. I’m enjoying seeing what each blogger has shared in this regard. :-)
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Nice list! I haven’t read any of these, but Three Men in a Boat sounds entertaining! Here is our <a href=”https://www.longandshortreviews.com/miscellaneous-musings/top-ten-tuesday-books-that-feature-travel/“>Top Ten Tuesday.</a> Thank you!
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I loved Eat Pray Love and Bill Bryson books are brilliant!
Excellent selection. It’s amazing where reading can take you!
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I also mentioned A Walk in the Woods, but I have never seen that cover for it before!
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An interesting list. I liked Eat, Pray, Love.
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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So many on here sound amazing! Especially Wild Places and The Marches!
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Full Tilt sounds especially interesting!
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A Time of Gifts was such a gift to us! What an amazing book, and I have Full Tilt waiting!
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I have read A Walk in the Woods and Three Men in a Boat. Both fantastic books. Great choice.
Here is my list.
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