Best books for traveling

We open a book because we need to transport ourselves to other places and situations, to evade reality through characters we adopt as friends and stories with which we can feel identified. However, there are also some books whose purpose is to allow us to visit another country in the world without having to buy a one-way ticket. These best books for traveling they become perfect magic rugs on which to delve into the mysteries of Asia, the routes of the United States or Spanish folklore.

Best books for traveling

On the road, by Jack Kerouac

On the road, by Jack Kerouac

Written in just three weeks on a roll of paper with no margins or spaces, In the path, published in 1957, quickly became the beat generation flagship book. Young people from the 50s open to new thoughts and lifestyles who found in this autobiographical story the perfect excuse to travel with Kerouac across the United States and Mexico, countries that one of the most influential authors of the 1947th century traveled between 1950 and XNUMX.

India: After a Million Riots, by VS Naipaul

VS Naipaul India

Of Hindu parents but born in the city of Port of Spain, in Trinidad and Tobago, Naipaul made a trip to the country of his ancestors to sculpt it throughout the pages of this book, a portrait of that turbulent and spiritual India, colorful and gray , where aspects like the role of women, the Bollywood industry or the confrontations between Hindus and Muslims are approached by the Nobel Prize in Literature with the irony and tenderness of someone who opens their eyes to a motherland full of so many nuances. A delight for lovers of the country of curry, yoga and the Taj Mahal.

Would you like to read VS Naipaul India?

Towards the Wild, by Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Adapted to the cinema in 2007, Towards wild routes is Chris McCandless's autobiography documented by Jon Krakauer, a 24-year-old who in 1992 decided to abandon his car and drive into the hostile lands of Alaska seeking to embrace a wilder way of life. The body of the young man was found lifeless months later, provoking divided opinions between those who admired McCandless's ability to leave the system and pursue a lifestyle of his own, and those who saw in his detention a total act of ignorance towards the laws of nature. .

Eat, Pray, and Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat, pray and love by Elizabeth Gilbert

After a divorce and a heartbreak, journalist Elizabeth Gilbert found herself at a crossroads devoid of spirituality and meaning. An existential crisis that he decided to solve with a trip to italy, where he ate all he could, India, a country in whose spiritual philosophies he immersed himself, or Bali, where he tried to embrace the sum of all his reflections. Criticized by those who consider this book a "life manual for posh and boring women," but adored by those who see Gilbert's work as an inspiration, Eat, Pray, and Love was adapted into a film in 2010 starring Julia Roberts.

Relámete with Eat, pray and love.

One Hundred Miles from Manhattan, by Guillermo Fesser

One Hundred Miles from Manhattan, by Guillermo Fesser

A leading journalist where they exist, Fesser has been telling us stories for 25 years through Gomaespuma but also through books as interesting as this one.A hundred miles from Manhattan. Formed by different characters and their own stories, the author introduces us to the different nuances, from slave rituals to the passing of the seasons, through a country full of charisma and beauty that surpasses the clichés that the whole world has always weighed against. about one of the most powerful nations on the planet.

Party, by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Party

Back in 1926, Spain was a country forgotten by the world, far from the brilliance of previous centuries. A inveterate travel writer, Hemingway narrated in Seafood the journey of a group of Americans and Englishmen from Paris to Pamplona, ​​where the famous San Fermin Holidays they became the most representative literary image of Spain for a generation marked by the wounds of the First World War. In fact, Pamplona is an ode in itself to the author of The Old Man and the Sea and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

The Traveler's Tao, by Paul Theroux

The Tao of the Traveler by Paul Theroux

Considered as one of the best contemporary travel writers, Theroux rose to fame in 1976 with the publication of the recommended The Great Railway Bazaar, a work that was followed by other titles such as The tao of the traveler. In reference to the famous Chinese philosophy, Theroux took advantage of his fifty years of travel to give us this Traveler's bible in which the author mixes the authors that inspired him to undertake his adventure (from Mark Twain to Ernest Hemingway), as well as different and powerful reflections that will unleash that traveling spirit that you carry within. All a delight.

Wild, by Cheryl Strayed

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Marked by a divorce, the death of her mother and her addiction to drugs, in 1995 the American Cheryl Strayed decided to embark on a solo adventure to travel more than 4 thousand kilometers through the Massif Pacific Trail that runs through all of California. Armed with a backpack and kilos of oats, Strayed ended up discovering herself in the middle of a nature in which the ghosts of the past awaited on each of the roads. Pure inspiration for low-hour readers.

Wild is one of those books that inspire.

By the Sea of ​​Cortez, by John Steinbeck

By the Sea of ​​Cortez by John Steinbeck

In March 1940, as Europe prepared for its Second World War, Steinbeck decided to take a trip that he had long longed for. Together with his friend, the biologist Ed Doc Ricketts, the author of The Pearl started a journey of 4 thousand miles starting from Monterrey and bordering Baja California until entering the then unknown Sea of ​​Cortez. The trip took place aboard a sardine boat called the Western Flyer in which the author took notes that he would turn into one of the most exciting travel books of the XNUMXth century.

Would you like to read By the sea of ​​Cortez?

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