Alaska by James A. Michener can be considered a bunch of loosely based novellas. Each with its own characters, drama, culture, history and story
I do agree with many things discussed, and The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter does inspire me to go out and do more stuff. The Alaska trip sounds amazing
In Kabul Beauty School, Deborah Rodriguez tells of her experience as an NGO worker in Afghanistan, teaching women how to run beauty salons.
The book has no structure, just a bunch of essays about far off places, and interesting people. These essays could be read out of order, there is not timeline
Not a traditional travel guide. This book allows the reader to skip in sections, and choose whatever trip or adventure they’d like to experience.
Go West, Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail by B J Hollars is a travelogue of the author, joined by his six-year-old son.
How to Travel by The School of Life consists of short essays about traveling. The School of Life is devoted to show people how to lead a more fulfilling life.
This is a short book, full of suggestions, advice, and even sample itineraries. I’ve gotten a bunch of good ideas from it, as well as reinforcing others.
Okay, so, as it turns out, I did write a ‘travelogue’ after all, because I wrote memoirs about my travels. But don’t expect my books to be the same.
Nora Seed wants to die, but instead she finds herself in a library where she could live alternate versions of her reality, with different choices to live a life