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Subject: the armchair traveler "reads" the world - my reading goal
Date Posted: 8/24/2010 4:01 PM ET
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I am going to try to read at least one travelogue/essay from every country in the world. According to Google there are currently 257 of them. I'm not going to put any kind of time limit on this. But I am going to list them all here and if I am having trouble finding a book set in a specific country, I would love suggestions! If I put a yes next to a country, I already have books about it. If there is nothing next to a country, I don't currently own any books about it. Once I figure out which books I am going to read for each country, I will list them. 1 Afghanistan - The Places in Between by Rory Stewart, The Afghan Amulet by Sheila Paine 2 Akrotiri 3 Albania 4 Algeria 5 American Samoa 6 Andorra 7 Angola 8 Anguilla 9 Antarctica - yes 10 Antigua and Barbuda 11 Arg more...
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For Mexico, one of my favorite books is A Village in the Sun by Dane Chandos, and also its sequel, more...
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Very cool reading idea!!! more...
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(Read these years ago & enjoyed t more...
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You haven't really made any guidelines here -- are you looking for travel narratives only? For novels set in X more...
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These are classic travel narratives. Albania: High Albania – Edith Durham Chile: Travels in a Thin Country – Sara Wheeler Congo: Congo Journey – Redmon OR more...
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