Adventure
Today: An adventurous travel photographer, his young daughter–already a travel veteran, a project to spread cultural understanding that needs YOUR help, and three great travel literature suggestions.
Destination: Chile and Argentina, South America Book: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin Bruce Chatwin uses one of the most engaging opening lines found in travel literature, or any other kind of literature, for that matter, to start In Patagonia (1977). The classic of travel books begins , “In my grandmother’s dining room there was a [...]
Destination: Afghanistan Book: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby Newby’s work is on everybody’s list of travel literature not to be missed. I read a 1999 edition of the book, and the link here takes you to a Lonely Planet reprint. The original 1973 edition is out of print. Newby also [...]
