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Recommended Resources
Contemporary Travel Memoirs
Books about China, Cuba, and Russia
- Black Earth: a Journey through Russia after the Fall
914.70486 Me
Andrew Meier
- Cuba Diaries: an American Housewife in Cuba
972.9123064 Ta
Isadora Tattlin
- Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island
917.291 As
Lea Aschkenas
- Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
951.156059 De
Rachel DeWoskin
- In Siberia
957 Th
Colin Thubron
- An Innocent in Cuba: Further Curious Rambles
and Singular Encounters
917.29104 Ma
David McFadden
- Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-Tourist
914.7404 Ka
Daniel Kalder
- Lying Together: My Russian Affair
070.4332092 C6784C
Jennifer Beth Cohen
- Metro Stop Dostoevsky
947.086092 Be
Ingrid Bengis
- Oracle Bones: a Journey between China’s Past and Present
951 He
Peter Hessler
- This is Cuba: an Outlaw Culture Survives
306.097291 Co
Ben Corbett
- Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman's Bicycle Trip through Mongolia, China, and Vietnam
915.10459 Wa
Erika Warmbrunn
DVDs about China, Cuba, and Russia
Travel to Other Faraway Places
- At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay
918.92 Gi
John Gimlette
- Angry Wind: through Muslim Black Africa by Truck,
Bus, Boat, and Camel
916.60433 Ta
Jeffrey Tayler
- Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters
with Strangers
910.41 Ha
Eric Hansen
- The Dark Heart of Italy
945.093 Jo
Tobias Jones
- East Toward Dawn: a Woman’s Solo Journey
around the World
910.41 Wa
Nan Watkins
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything across India, Italy, and Indonesia
910.4 G4646G
Elizabeth Gilbert
- The 8:55 to Baghdad
823.912 C5555E
Andrew Eames
- Expat: Women’s True Tales of Life Abroad
910.4082 Ex
- Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted
945.18 HA
Annie Hawes
- Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
954.5605209 Ma
Sarah MacDonald
- Ice Cave: a Woman’s Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic
910.4092 Bl
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
- In a Sunburned Country
919.40465 Br
Bill Bryson
- Italy Out of Hand: A Capricious Tour
914.50493 Ho
Barbara Hodgson
- Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa
916.04329 Jo
Ann Jones
- Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico
917.2 Co
Tony Cohan
- Men of Salt: Across the Sahara with the Caravan
of White Gold
916.604329 Be
Michael Benanav
- My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman
Who’s Been Everywhere
910.4 Or
Susan Orlean
- The Places in Between
915.810447 St
Rory Stewart
- Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road
910.4082 Sa
Jennifer Leo
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
306.099681 Tr
J. Maarten Troost
- Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
910.4 Ge
Rita Golden Gelman
- Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond
954.053 Mi
Pankaj Mishra
- A Thousand Sighs, a Thousand Revolts:
Journeys in Kurdistan
956.72 Bi
Christane Bird
- A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from around the Globe
910.4082 Wo
Faith Conlon
Visit our previous Mayor's Book Club resource guides online:
Spring 2006: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Spring 2005: Writing Austin's Lives by Metro Austin Residents
Spring 2004: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Spring 2003: Holes by Louis Sachar
Spring 2002: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
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