Spanning the Globe: Armchair Travel

Armchair travel tales to help you circle the globe or stay right in your own backyard

Africa

Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff   
Rosemary Mahoney   916.2 MAH

Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert    
William Langewiesche   916.604 LAN

Antarctica/Arctic

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage   
Alfred Lansing    919.89 LAN

Berserk: My Voyage to Antarctica in a Twenty-Seven-Foot Sailboat  
David Mercy   919.89 MER

China

The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place   
Ian Baker   915.1 BAK

Shadow of the Silk Road   
Colin Thubron   915.8 THU

Europe

A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveler   
Frances Mayes    910.4 MAY

Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon   
Michael O’Brien    940.27 OBR

Great Britain

England for All Seasons   
Susan Allen Toth   914.204 TOT

Round Ireland with a Fridge   
Tony Hawks   914.15 HAW

Italy

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Anthony Doerr    813.54 DOE

The City of Falling Angels  
John Berendt    945.31 BER

Japan

Wrong About Japan: A Father’s Journey with His Son  
Peter Carey    915.2 CAR

Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei  
David Mura   915.20448 MUR

Mexico/Central and South America The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann   918.11 GRA

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
Candice Millard   981.13 MIL

Middle East

Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India
Rory MacLean    915.04426 MAC

Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran
Jason Elliot   915.5 ELL

South Seas

Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island: A Conjecture
Alex Capus   910.45 CAP

Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island
Peter Rudiak-Gould    919.683 RUD

Russia

Strange Telescopes: Following the Apocalypse from Moscow to Siberia
Daniel Kalder    914.7 KAL

Travels in Siberia
Ian Frazier   957 FRA

United States

The River Queen: A Memoir
Mary Morris    813.54 MOR

Three Weeks with My Brother
Nicholas Sparks    813.54 SPA

Riding with Strangers: A Hitchhiker’s Journey
Elijah Wald    917.3 WAL

Cross-Country: Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in-Law, Two Kids and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant
Robert Sullivan   917.304 SUL

Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales
Compiled by M. Mark Miller   917.8752 ADV

The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map
Peter Stark   973 STA

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