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21 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Bruce Chatwin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Bruce Chatwin — how to approach In Patagonia, his essential travel memoir that reinvented the form. A complete reading guide to the British author.
Where to Start with Che Guevara: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Che Guevara — how to approach The Motorcycle Diaries, his posthumously published journal of the 1952 journey through South America that transformed a young medical student into the figure history would make of him. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ewan McGregor: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ewan McGregor — how to approach Long Way Round, the adventure travel memoir he wrote with Charley Boorman about their 31,000-mile motorcycle journey eastward from London to New York through Europe, Central Asia, and the Americas. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Heinrich Harrer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Heinrich Harrer — how to approach Seven Years in Tibet, his extraordinary account of escaping a wartime POW camp and reaching Lhasa to become the Dalai Lama's tutor. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Peter Matthiessen: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Matthiessen — how to approach The Snow Leopard, his National Book Award-winning account of a Himalayan journey that becomes a sustained inquiry into grief, presence, and Zen practice. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Peter Mayle: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Mayle — how to approach A Year in Provence, the book that invented a genre, his warmly funny account of abandoning an advertising career to renovate a farmhouse in the Luberon and discover a way of life organised around food. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Rolf Potts: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rolf Potts — how to approach Vagabonding, his practical and philosophical guide to long-term independent travel that argues extended travel is a choice, not a luxury. A complete reading guide.
Best Books About Food: Essential Reading List
The best books about food — from Kitchen Confidential and The Omnivore's Dilemma to Salt Fat Acid Heat and In Defense of Food. Food writing at its most essential.
Books About France: Essential Reading for Every Visitor
The best books set in France — from Provence to Paris, from WWII to the Belle Époque. Fiction, memoir, and history for travellers and Francophiles.
Books About Greece: Essential Reading for Visitors and Hellenic Dreamers
The best books set in Greece — from Zorba's Crete to Corfu's wildlife, Kefalonia in wartime to Homer's Mediterranean. Fiction, memoir, and myth for travellers to Greece.
Books About India: Essential Reading for Visitors and Curious Minds
The best books set in India — from Bombay's underworld to Kerala's backwaters, Partition to contemporary inequality. Fiction and memoir for every kind of traveller.
Books About Italy: Essential Reading for Every Visitor
The best books set in Italy — from Tuscany to Venice, Naples to Rome. Fiction, memoir, and historical fiction for travellers and Italophiles.
Books About Japan: Essential Reading for Visitors and Dreamers
The best books set in Japan — from Murakami's Tokyo to medieval Kyoto, from geisha culture to modern fiction. Fiction, memoir, and history for every kind of reader.
Books About Morocco: Essential Reading for Visitors to the Maghreb
The best books set in Morocco — from Marrakech's medina to the Sahara, Tangier's literary underground to a child's-eye view of the souks. Fiction and memoir for every traveller.
Books About Peru: Essential Reading for Visitors to the Andes
The best books set in Peru — from Machu Picchu's rediscovery to the Amazon, the Inca empire to Che Guevara's journey. History, travel, and fiction for every Andean traveller.
Books About Portugal: Essential Reading for Visitors to Lisbon and Beyond
The best books set in Portugal — from Pessoa's Lisbon to Night Train to Lisbon, from Saramago's allegories to the Salazar dictatorship. Literary fiction for every visitor.
Books About Spain: Essential Reading for Every Visitor
The best books set in Spain — from Hemingway's Pamplona to Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, from the Spanish Civil War to Cervantes' La Mancha. Fiction and memoir for travellers and Hispanophiles.
Books About Thailand: Essential Reading for Visitors to Southeast Asia
The best books set in Thailand — from Alex Garland's hidden beach to John Burdett's Buddhist detective, backpacker dreams to Bangkok's underworld. Fiction for every kind of Thailand traveller.
Mark Adams Books in Order: Complete Reading Guide
All Mark Adams books in order — from Turn Right at Machu Picchu to Meet Me in Atlantis. Complete guide to the American adventure non-fiction writer's work.
Where to Start with Mark Adams: The Best First Book
New to Mark Adams? Turn Right at Machu Picchu is the right starting point — here's what to expect from his adventure non-fiction and which book suits you.
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