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NEGLECTED TRAVEL CLASSICS
Worth Looking For
The Big Red Train Ride
• Eric Newby
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1989 •
PAPER
• 267 PAGES
• COMING IN
Newby's marvelous account of speeding across Russia with wife Wanda on the Trans-Siberian from Moscow to Khabarovsk recalls the joys, frustrations and oddities of remote Russia during the Brezhnev years. With photographs by the Newbys.
(RUS140, $24.95) |
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An Egyptian Journal
• William Golding
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1985 •
PAPER
• 270 PAGES
• COMING IN
Ancient ruins and modern life along the classic route from Cairo to Aswan. The "New Yorker" called Golding's marvelous journey, in which he takes to the Nile on a rather questionable river boat, "a leisurely, grand, almost epic comedy." It contains this bit of wisdom from the captain: "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience." Not bad advice.
(EGY06, $24.95) |
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Attending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal
• George Gaylord Simpson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1934 •
PAPER
• COMING IN
Gaylord Simpson's witty account of fossil hunting adventures in Patagonia in the 1930s.
(PAT83, $7.95) |
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