Sometimes it's worth relaxing your eyes from the phone or laptop screen and reading a good book. Below we present to you the most interesting books on various travel topics, which not only draw you in, but also stimulate your imagination.
1. Heavenly Beach (Author: Alex Gerland)
Bangkok – the first stop on the wandering trail. Richard, an adventurous globetrotter, stops for the night in a second-rate guesthouse. There he meets a Scotsman who, in a drugged trance, raves about a heavenly beach. The next day, he slits his wrists, leaving Richard a map showing the route to the beach. There are legends about it among people traveling around southern and eastern Asia. Expedition to unknown regions Thailand is a temptation and a challenge for Richard, who was brought up on films about Vietnam. He was looking for adventure, but the one he found was beyond his imagination.
2. Under the cover of the sky (Author: Paul Bowles)
Under the cover of the sky is the most famous novel by Paul Bowles, one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. It is the story of an almost mystical journey of a married couple across the Sahara, and at the same time a metaphor for human fate. The husband is looking for inspiration, the wife - hope to save the crumbling marriage. A wonderful book about love and alienation, about spiritual bankruptcy, about people without roots, about people who are "sick in soul".
3. I was here. Tony Halik (Author: Mirosław Wlekły)
He was the most shot down pilot of World War II, a French partisan, author of the first interview with Fidel Castro, Pulitzer Prize winner, private pilot for Juan Peron and discoverer of the lost Mayan capital. Or he wasn't any of them. But he was definitely going to the Moon. Tony Halik's fascinating and perverse biography proves that sometimes real life is more unbelievable than the best novel.
4. Drop it and go, or Polish women at the ends of the world (Author: Magdalena Żelazowska)
These are true stories of Polish women who dared to live differently. They left. They packed the most important things and sold the rest, gave them away or simply left them behind, along with their unfulfillment in life. Some of them escaped from something - loneliness, a failed relationship, meaningless work, life in narrow frames into which they tried to force them. Others met something – love, passion, a better, fuller life.
5. Mag (Author: John Fowles)
The book's hero, a young Englishman named Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island. There he becomes friends with the owner of a magnificent estate. Friendship with a millionaire puts the young man into a nightmare. With each passing day, reality and fantasy become more and more mixed, and Urfe becomes an unwitting actor in a rich man's private theater - he comes into contact with death, sex and violence. He desperately starts fighting to stay alive. The action, which is a real labyrinth of events, is accompanied by cultural charades, and the story itself provokes reflection on the illusory nature of the world around us and the moral principles operating in it.
6. Shantaram (Author: Gregory David Roberts)
"Shantaram" means "God's peace". This name was given to the hero of the book by his Indian friends, encapsulating the entire story told in this book: the story of finding the truth about oneself in India. But the path to "God's peace" led through such dramatic events that at times it is hard to believe that they really took place. Dark dealings, drug and weapons trafficking, counterfeiting, smuggling, gangster settlements - and at the same time romantic love, deep friendships, searching for a mentor, learning the philosophy of the East.
7. Murder on the Orient Express (Author: Agatha Christie)
Agatha Christie's cult novel. A brilliantly crafted plot, suspenseful action and an unexpected ending made this book one of the most important crime novels in history. The main character, Hercule Poirot, returns to Europe after solving a crime in Asia. Train Orient Express, which he is traveling in, gets stuck in a snowdrift. At night, one of the passengers dies in unexplained circumstances. Detective Poirot begins an investigation, and his journey turns into an investigation.
8. Little Princes (Author: Conor Grennan)
29-year-old Conor Grennan is far from the idea of settling down and starting a family. He wants to experience the adventure of a lifetime. So he quits his job and sets off on a journey around the world. Wanting to impress his friends, especially women, he begins his expedition with three months of volunteer work in a Nepali orphanage. There is no idea about child care, and information about the ongoing... Nepal he treats the civil war with a pinch of salt - as he quickly discovers - wrongly. The three months spent with her youngest victims make a huge impression on Conor and begin to change his outlook on life.
9. Wild Swans. China's three daughters (Author: Jung Chang)
A moving story about three generations of one family, whose experiences create an extraordinary picture of the changes that have taken place in China. The author's grandmother, according to an old tradition, had bandaged feet, and her parents intended her to be the general's concubine. My mother became a committed communist fighting for new things China, however, when she and her husband noticed Mao's cruelty, they both experienced ruthless persecution during the Cultural Revolution, were tortured and sent to labor camps. Little Jung grew up as a Pioneer Woman with the Little Red Book under her arm, but as a young woman she decided to take advantage of the miraculously presented opportunity and leave her country forever. While living in London, she wrote a book that allowed the world to understand what modern China really is.
10. Football. Brazilian lifestyle (Author: Alex Bellos)
Every Brazilian has this magic of the "beautiful game". The term Brazilian footballer is like a French chef or a Tibetan monk. Nationality expresses authority, innate ability - regardless of real ability.
Alex Bellos, a British journalist, traveled Brazil – from its great cities to the most forgotten villages in the jungle. He wanted to prove that practically everything in football, apart from the ball itself, was invented by Brazilians. They play football with buttons and cars. They invented mud soccer, volleyball, beach soccer, futsal, and friendly soccer. So if you think you've just invented something new in football, don't rejoice prematurely. Someone in Brazil must have done it before you.
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