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Bill Bryson – Neither Here nor There

It’s a trip across Europe, from Stockholm to Istanbul as a backpacker. He remembers his adventures in the years 1972 and 1973 with his friend Stephen Katz when they were students at Iowa High School and compares with what he sees now travelling alone through the same places almost twenty years after.


Bill Bryson – Down Under

It’s a trip to largest Island in the world: Australia. He exploits this immense and great country relating about the wild life, politics, social happenings... He treks through sun-baked deserts and up endless coastlines.


Josie Dew – Slow Coast Home

A bike traveller who arrives to make 5,000 miles around the shores of England and Wales.


Théodore Monod – L’ Emeraude des Garamantes. Souvenirs d’ un Saharien

A book of memories, reflections and trips to the Sahara. The author speaks about his own life, his interests, the geography and the soul of the deserts... Fantastic!


Wilfred Thesiger – Pelos Desertos da Arábias

It’s about the trips in some territories of the Arabian peninsula between 1945 and 1950, when the fever of the oil had not yet destroyed the communitarian and nomadic life of the Bedouins. It is these distant memories of a world today disappeared without modern cities, vehicles 4x4 or millionaire monarchies that the author tells here in a seductive register.


Max Rodenbeck – Cairo

A passionate, historical and contemporary description of the great and multifaceted city and its people: since the pharaohs time to the brightness of the medieval metropolis, from the subjugation of the Turks and British to the emergency the modern capital of the Arab nationalism.


Paul Bowles – Days (Tangier Journal)

Writing set about travelling experiences relative to places as diverse as Madera, Ceylon, Kenya, Fez, Tangier or Paris, written up in a very ample temporary arc from 1948 to 1966.


Daniel Rondeau – Tanger et autres Marocs

Rondeau offers us an extended version of its impressions on different Moroccan cities - Marraquexe, Fez, Essaouira, Tetuan - and notes of trip. His narrative finishes with a return to Tangier.


(To bee continued…)