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First of all, tell me about your trip. Round the world? How many months? What type of adventures are you going for? We all went on a RTW last year, and we mainly read what we could get our hands on, though to our dismay, folks in Europe and Australia are just as much suckers for trashy chick lit as we are. These recommendations aren't all strictly adventure, but are about travel:
Out of Africa by Isak Dineson The Serpent and the Rainbow (I forget the author, but the movie they made out of this was horrible--read the book) Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
any books by Gerald or Lawrence Durrell--LD's books are lit, and Gerald's tend to be directed towards a younger audience and he was a naturalist, but they're delightful. Looking for a Bluebird This was an obscure little book I found at a book exchange in Oz and maybe you can find it somewhere; it's about 60 years old and very, very funny--about a man who took off when he was young to go travel, but the only way he could afford it was to get a job as a violinist on a transatlantic ship--maybe his name was Joseph Wechsler Rascals in Paradise by James Michener a book of non-fiction shorts about pirates and bad people in the South Pacific
Still Living a Dream is by a courageous woman who dared to be different. She had a dream and they told her she couldn't, she wasn't strong enough, but she looked them in the eye and said JUST WATCH!
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