| North Atlantic | Bear Gryllis Facing the Frozen Ocean Macmillan 2004 crossing the Northatlantic in an inflatable boat Theo Dorgan Sailing For Home Penguin 2004 crossing the Atlantic |
Callahan, Steven Adrift Penguin 2003 76 days lost at sea after yacht sinks |
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| South Atlantic | Dallas Murphy Rounding the Horn Phoenix 2005 cape horn, in the footsteps of Magellan |
•Jean Paul Kauffman ; The Dark Room at Longwood (Napoleon’s exile on St Helena (non-fiction) |
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Theroux, Paul The Old Patagonian Express Penguin 1980 travelling the lenght of North and South America by train Karl Bushby Giant Steps Little, Brown 2005 walking through South and North America |
Tschiffely, A F Tschiffely’s Ride Pallas Athene on horseback from Argentina to Washington; 1925 |
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| Flannery, Tim The Eternal Frontier Vintage 2001 an ecological history of North America and its peoples |
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| Pacific Northwest | Raban, Jonathan The Passage To Juneau Picador sailing along the North Pacific Coast Sullivan, Robert A Whale Hunt Headline 2001 small indian tribe goes on a whale hunt |
•David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars (San Juan Islands)/East of the Mountains •Margaret Craven – I Heard the Owl Call My Name (life among Indians in British Columbia) |
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| Canada | Will Ferguson Beauty Tips from Moosejaw Canongate 2005 Matthew Collins Across Canada With the Boys and Three Grannies Match 2002 by motorhome through Canada Brown, Margaret Gillies Far From the Rowan Tree Argyll Publishing 1997 the Brown family migrates to Canada in the1950 Dorian Amos Good Life Eye Books 2004 Powell-Williams, Clive Cold Burial Penguin 2002 1926 expedition into the Canadian wilderness goes horrilbly wrong Edward Beauclerk Maurice The Last of the Gentlemen Adventurers 4th Estate 2004 life in Arctic Canada 1930 Robert Twigger Voyageur Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006 Rocky Mountains by canoe, in the footsteps of Mackenzie David Adams-Richards Lines on Water Yellow Jersey 2002 fishing in Canada new . •Margaret Atwood; Surfacing (remote island in North Canada) •Robertson Davies; The Cornish Trilogy •Catherine Gildiner; Too Close to the Falls (Canadian Childhood) •Stuart Harrison; The Snow Falcon •Annie Proulx; the Shipping News (remote North Canada) |
•Gaetan Soucy; The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (Canadian Wilderness) •Jane Urquhart); The Stone Carvers (WW1) •Guy Vanderhaeghe ; The Last Crossing (19th century northwest frontier British Columbia •Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name •Gail Anderson Dargatz; The Cure For Death By Lightning Manitoba •Miriam Toews; A Complicated Kindness ( Mennonite community) Nova Scotia •D R MacDonald; Cape Breton Road •Alastair McLeod; No Great Mischief/ Islands (Scottish immigrants ) Ontario •Don Hannah; The Wise and Foolish Virgins •Steve Heighton; The Shadow Boxer (Small town life) •Alice Munro; Dance of the Happy Shades Prince Edward Island •L M Montgomery;Anne of Green Gables/ Emily series Quebec •Frances Itani ; Leaning, Leaning Over Water (post WW2) •John Matthews; The Last Witness (Montreal) •Kathy Reichs; crime novels featuring forensic pathologist Dr Temperance Brennan (Montreal) Saskatchewan •Charlotte Bacon; Lost Geography (Scottish Immigrants) |
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| Labrador & Newfoundland | John Gimlette Theatre of Fish Arrow 2005 Alexandra Pratt Lost Lands Forgotten Stories Eye Books 2005 river journey into Labrador |
Labrador •Michael Crummey; River Thieves (Newfoundland Settlers) •Wayne Johnston; The Colony of Unrequited Dreams •Donna Morrissey; Kit’s Law (Newfoundland) •Annie Proulx; Shipping News (New Foundland) |
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| USA | Louis Theroux The Call of the Weird Macmillan 2005 in the company of weird Americans Heat-Moon, William Least Blue Highways Pimlico a journey into America; first published in the 1980s Dodson, James Faithful Traveller Arrow 1999 De Beauvoir, Simone America Day by Day Phoenix 1999 USA 1960s Raban, Jonathan Hunting Mr Heartbreak Picador 1991 USA Steinbeck, John Travels With Charley Mandarin 1995 USA with a poodle Bruce Fogle Travels With Macy Ebury Press 2005 re-tracing John Steinbeck’s footsteps Turner, Phillip Making Movies Summersdale 1997 USA, in the footsteps of filmstars Dew, Josie Travels in a Strange State Warner 1995 USA, cycling Jacobson, Howard Roots Schmoots Penguin 1994(out of print) USA, Israel, Lithuania; Jewish roots Johnson, Denis Seek Methuen 2001 the poor corners of society Peter Biddlecombe The Great McBurger States of America Abacus 2002 Jenny Diski Stranger on a Train Virago 2002 USA by train Toksvig, Sandy |
Heat-Moon, William Least River-Horse Pimlico 2000 crossing the country by interior waterways in a small boat Rushin, Steve Road Swing Aurum 2000 USA; sporting america Keeble, Jim Independence Day Abacus 2000 Sedaris, David Naked Indigo 1998 hitchhiking; short stories Walsh, Stephen Heartbreak Spoken Here Penguin 1997 country and western culture Bryson, Bill Made In America Transworld 1998 USA, humorous Bryson, Bill Notes From A Big Country Transworld 1999 USA, humorous Vowell, Sarah Take the Cannoli Penguin 2003 american life Belinda Jones On the Road to Mr Right Arrow 2004 travelling through USA in pursuit of romance Grant, Richard Ghost Rider Little, Brown 2003 travels with american nomads .•Russel Banks; Cloudsplitter (rural, pre-civil war America) •Justin Cartwright; Leading the Cheers •Philip Roth; The Human Stain (Clinton’s America) •Don Delillo; Underworld (panorama 1950s – 90s) •Neil Gaiman; American Gods •Garrison Keillor; Lake Wobegone stories (small town USA) Politics •Joe Klein; Primary Colours •Kristin Gore ; Sammy’s Hill (Washington DC, polit fiction) •Gore Vidal ;The Golden Age •Molly Ivins; Bushwhacked (life in Bush’s America) •Michael Moore; Stupid White Men/ Hey Dude, Where is my Country Cooke, Alistair Alistair Cooke’s America Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2003 politics |
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| driving thru... | Cunliffe, Tom Good Vibrations Summersdale 2000 from coast to coast on a Harley De Vries, Clare I & Claudius Bloomsbury 2000 driving through the Usa with elderly cat Claudius Paulsen, Gary Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride Indigo 1999 USA; motorcycling Laurie Gough Kiss the Sunset Pig Summersdale 2006 |
McMurtry, Larry Roads Orion 2000 along the Interstate Highways Condon, Sean Drive Thru America Lonely Planet 1998 Paterniti, Michael Driving Mr Albert Little, Brown 2000 reuniting Einsteins preserved brain with his granddaughter Kurtz, Irma The Great American Bus Ride 4th Estate 1994 USA by Greyhound Bus •Jack Kerouac; On the Road |
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| USA-East & Great Lakes |
Bryson, Bill A Walk In The Woods Transworld 1998 USA, Appalachian Trail Wright, Lili Learning To Float Transworld 2003 from Maine to Florida Illinois •William Maxwell: The Folded Leaf (Chicago 20s) •William Maxwell ;So Long, See You Tomorrow (rural life) |
New York (own entry) Ohio •Jennifer Crusie; Welcome to Temptation •Toni Morrison; The Bluest Eye/ Sula (black family saga) Pennsylvania •Barbara Dimmick; In the Presence of Horses (Horse Training) Wisconsin •Manette A. Ansay – Vinegar Hill •Christina Schwartz; Drowning Ruth |
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| USA-Midwest | Iowa •Peter Hedges; An Ocean in Iowa (small town 60s) •Jane Smiley; A Thousand Acres (rural USA) Kansas •Reed Arvin; The Will •Thomas Eidson; All God’s Children •Scott Phillips; The Ice Harvest (Thriller) Nebraska •Tom McNeal; Goodnight Nebraska (small town) North Dakota • Louise Erdrich; Beet Queen/ Love Medicine •Leif Enger; Peace Like a River (Badlands) Oklahoma •Toni Morrison; Paradise |
Bryson, Bill The Lost Continent Transworld 1999 USA, Midwest, humorous Kennedy, Douglas In God’s Country Abacus 1996 USA, Bible Belt •J Robert Lennon; On the Night Plain (Mid-West Sheepfarming) |
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| New England | Naine •Sarah Orne Jewett ;The Country of The Pointed Firs (19th century) Massachusetts •Judy Blume; Summer Sister (coming of age in Martha’s Vineyard) ªAlice Hoffman; Local Girls/ The River King (small town life) •Henry James; The Bostonians (19c; lawyers) •Marcel Theroux ;The Paperchase (Cape Cod) Cunningham, Michael Land’s End Vintage 2004 Cape Cod/ Provincetown |
Vermont •Chris Bohjalian; Midwives •Mary McGarry Morris; Songs in Ordinary Time |
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| USA- South | Naipaul, V. S. A Turn in the South Picador 1989 history and politics Freemantle, Tom Moonshine Mule Robinson 2003 Southern USA/ East Coast by mule Arkansas •Norris Church Mailer; Windchill Summer (coming of age) Kentucky •Toni Morrison; Beloved (slaves) •Derek Robinson; Kentucky Blues (Pioneers) Tenessee •William Gay; Provinces of the Night |
Virginia •William Faulkner; Absalom Absalom •Adriana Trigiani ; Big Stone Gap Washington DC •George P. Pelecanos; crime novels •James Patterson; crime novels featuring Alex Cross West Virginia •James L Nelson; The Blackbirder/ The Guardship (18th c slave trade) |
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| USA-Deep South | Bilger, Burkhard Noodling For The Flatheads William Heinemann 2000 USA; Deep South Middleton, Nick Ice Tea & Elvis Phoenix 2000 USA , Deep South Raban, Jonathan Old Glory Picador 1981 the Mississippi on a steam boat •Rita Mae Brown; Ruby Fruit Jungle (lesbian coming of age romp) •Fanny Flagg; Welcome to the World Baby Girl / Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man/ ... •William Faulkner; Light in August/ The Sound and the Fury/ Absalom Absalom/ The Wild Palms/ etc •Barry Gifford; Southern Nights (short stories) •Harper Lee; To Kill A Mockingbird (1930s ) •Carson McCullers; The Ballad of the Sad Café •Flannery O’Connor; Wise Blood •Alice Walker ; The Colour Purple/ Meridian •Rebecca Wells; Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood/ Little Altars Everywhere (quirky family sagas from the deep south ) |
Alabama •Fanny Flagg; Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café •Tom Franklin; Poachers Georgia •Toni Cade Bamba; Those Bones Are Not My Child (Atlanta) •Erskine Caldwell; God’s Little Acre Louisiana •James Lee Burke; crime novels featuring detective Dave Robichcheaux •Patrick Neate; Twelve Bar Blues • Anne Rice; Interview with the Vampire/ Merrick (New Orleans) •Lalita Tademy; Cane River (1800s) •John Kennedy Toole; A Confederacy of Dunces (New Orleans) Mississippi •William Faulkner; As I Lay Dying/ Light in August South Carolina •Dorothea Benton Frank; Sullivan’s Island Civil War •Charles Frazier; Cold Mountain (doomed civil war romance) •Allan Gurganus; The Oldest Living Confederate Widow •John Jakes (Family Sagas/ Civil War) •Margaret Mitchell; Gone with the Wind |
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| USA-Southwest | Craig Childs Way Out Time Warner 2005 through the canyons of South West USA O’Reilly, Sean (Ed) American Southwest Traveler’s Tales 2001 Anthology Craig Childs The Way Out Little, Brown 2006 the canyons of the Southwest |
Arizona •Don deLillo ; Arizona Kid •Susan Elderkin; Sunset over Chocolate Mountain •Jeremy Poolman; Interesting Facts About the State of Arizona •Brady Udall; The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint •Tony Hillerman: crime novels featuring Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn (Navaho) |
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| USA-West | Robert Twigger Voyageur Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006 Rocky Mountains by canoe, in the footsteps of Mackenzie Sundeen, Mark Car Camping Canongate 2001 USA-West; camping in the desert Maka, Gwen Riding With Ghosts Travellerseye 2000 USA/ cycling through the Rocky Mountains from Seattle to Mexico Edward Dolnick Down the Great Unknown Harper Collins 2002 discovery of the Grand Canyon Simon Casson & Richard Adamson Riding the Outlaw Trail Travellerseye 2004 in the footsteps of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
Bird, Isabella A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains Virago from San Francisco to the Rockies; 1879 Twain, Mark Roughing It Penguin Classics fictionalised account of journeys 1860 •Larry McMurtry; Lonesome Dove •Annie Proulx; Heart Songs •Richard S Wheeler; Second Lives (1880s gold rush) •Moon Unit Zappa; America the Beautiful (West Coast) Colorado •Kent Haruf; The Tie That Binds •Heidi Julavits; The Mineral Palace •Kent Haruf; Plainsong Montana (own entry) Oregon •Chuck Palahniuk; Fugitives and Refugees (Portland, biographical) Utah •Stephanie Johnson; Belief (Salt Lake City; Religion) Washington •Judi Hendricks; Bread Alone (Seattle) |
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| Alaska | Paulsen, Gary Winterdance Indigo reissued 2000 the fine madness of sled dog-racing Muir, John Travels in Alaska Mariner Books Alaska; 1879 David Fletcher Hunted Constable 2002 fight with a grizzly bear Salisbury, Gay & Laney The Cruellest Miles Bloomsbury 2003 Alaska 1925 Brian Keenan Four Quarters of Light Doubleday 2004 |
Balzar, John Lure of the Quest Headline 2000 Alaska, sled dog racing Krakauer, Jon Into The Wild Pan 1996 James Campbell The Final Frontiersman Simon & Schuster 2005 life in the Alaskan bush Schooler, Lynn The Blue Bear Hutchinson 2002 in search for the glacier bear •Kathryn Harrison;The Seal Wife •Kimberley Kafka; True North Jack London ; Call of the Wild (sled-dog racing) |
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| California | Donegan, Lawrence California Dreaming Viking Penguin 2001 driving through California •T. Coraghessan Boyle; Budding Prospects (looking after a cannabis plantation)/ The Tortilla Curtain (Californian- Mexican relations) •Po Bronson; The Nudist on the Lateshift (Silicon Valley) •Thomas Pynchon ;The Crying of Lot 49 •John Steinbeck; East of Eden/ Grapes of Wrath/ Cannery Row Los Angeles Crime novels by: Robert Crais, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, Walter Mosley, •Bret Easton Ellis; The Informers |
Hollywood •William Boyd; The Destiny of Nathalie X •Peter Farrelly; The Comedy Writer • Richard E Grant; By Design •Norman Mailer ;Deer Park •John Ridley ;Everybody Smokes in Hell •Evelyn Waugh; The Loved One •David Henry Sterry; Chicken (teenage prostitutes) San Francisco •Isabel Allende; Portrait in Sepia (19th century) •Tim Farrington; The California Book of the Dead Armistead Maupin; Tales of the City series |
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| Florida | Orlean, Susan The Orchid Thief Vintage 2000 true story of a man stealing orchids in South Florida in the orchid crazed times of 1890s MacLean, Rory Next Exit Magic Kingdom Flamingo 2000 |
•Vicky Hendricks; Sky Blues/ Miamy Purity (Miami/ Crime) •Carl Hiaasen;crime novels set in South Florida •Elmore Leonard; most of his crime novels •Peter Matthiessen ;Killing Mr Watson (Florida Everglades; mysterious murder casd 1910) |
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| Hawaii | •Nora Okja Keller; Comfort Woman •Paul Theroux; Hotel Honolulu |
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| Montana | Raban, Jonathan Bad Land Picador 1999 |
•Richard Ford; Wildlife •Deirdre Purcell; Sky |
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| Nevada | Thomson, David In Nevada Little, Brown 1999 |
•Belinda Jones; Divas Las Vegas (Las Vegas/ Chick-Lit) |
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| New York | Kelsey, Robert In Pursuit of Happiness Bantam 2000 An englishman in New York for a year White, E.B. Here Is New York Little Bookroom 2001 essay first published 1948 Matthews, Anne Wild Nights Flamingo 2001 Brook, Stephen New York Days, New York Nights Picador 1984 Stringer, Lee Grand Central Winter Review 2000 sleeping rough in NYC; biographical Robert Sullivan Rats Granta 2005 a year with NY’s most unwanted inhabitants Robert Sullivan Meadowlands Granta 2006 New York State, in the polluted swamplands five miles west of NYC |
Ian Frazier Gone to New York Granta 30 years worth of life in NYC Whitehead, Colson The Colossus of New York 4th Estate 2003 •Paul Auster; The New York Trilogy •Isabelle Bolton; New York Mosaic •Truman Capote; Breakfast at Tiffany’s • Brett Easton Ellis; Glamorama • Jay McInerney; Bright Lights Big City •Tama Janowitz; Slaves of New York/ A Certain Age •J.D. Salinger: Catcher in The Rye •Hubert Selby jr; Last Exit Brooklyn •Tom Wolfe; Bonfires of Vanities •Hubert Selby jr; Last Exit Brooklyn •Colin Harrison; Manhattan Nocturne •Kerry Jamieson, The Golden Door (1930s immigrants) •Frank McCourt; ‘Tis (biographical; irish immigrants 1940s till now) •Kevin Baker; Dreamland ( early 20th century) •Henry Roth; From a Rude Stream Trilogy (New York 1914 - 40s) •Tom Wolfe; Bonfire of the Vanities |
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| Texas | McLean, Duncan Lone Star Swing Vintage 1998 Kinki Friedman The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic Vintage 2005 Austin |
•Kinky Friedman; quirky crime novels • Joe R. Lansdale; quirky crime novels •Cormack McCarthy; All the Pretty Horses (+ Border Trilogy) •Larry McMurtry; Texasville/ Duane’s Depressed/ The Last Picture Show •DBC Pierre ; Vernon God Little •Annie Proulx; That Old Ace in the Hole (rural life; Oklahoma/ Northwest Texas) |
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| Wyoming | Spragg, Mark Where Rivers Change Direction Vintage 2000 biographical, growing up on a farm |
•Annie Proulx ;Close Range |
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| Central America | Benz, Stephen Green Dreams Lonely Planet 1998 Guevara, Ernesto ‘Che’ Back on the Road Harvill 2001 Guevara’s second journey 1950s Tom Hart Dyke & Paul Winder The Cloud Garden Bantam Press 2003 Panama/ Colombia/ the Darien Gap; in searc of orchids Moore, Peter The Full Montezuma Bantam Books 2001 Patrick Marnham So Far From God Bloomsbury first publ 1980s) Central America (Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua) |
Maka, Gwen Riding With Ghosts: South of the Border Travellerseye 2001 from Mexico to Costa Rica by bike Guatemala •Ronan Bennett; Overthrown by Strangers •Kathy Reichs; Grave Secrets (Crime novel) Panama •John leCarré – The Taylor of Panama •Henry Shukman; Darien Dogs (Panama/ Caribbean) •Alejo Carpentier; The Harp and the Shadow (historical; Columbus) •Geoff Dyer ; The Search |
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| Caribbean | Ann Vanderhoof An Embarrassment of Mangoes Transworld 2005 sailing around the Caribbean Davies, Hunter A Walk Around The West Indies Orion 2000 Caribbean Patrick Leigh Fermor Traveller’s Tree John Murray West Indies 1950s V S Naipaul The Middle Passage Picador travels in the 60s in the Caribbean (Surinam, Jamaica, British Guiana, Martinique) Melinda & Robert Blanchard A Trip to the Beach Ebury Press 2002 Caribbean/ Anguilla |
•Margaret Atwood; Bodily Harm •Neil Bissoondath; The Worlds Within Her (Caribbean Immigrants in London) •Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Autumn of the Patriarch Doninican Republic •Edwige Danticat; The Farming of Bones •Mario Vargas Llosa; The Feast of the Goat Trinidad & Tobago •Oonya Kempadoo; Tide Turning (Tobago) •V S Naipaul; The Mystic Masseur (Trinidad) •Toni Morrison; Tar Baby •Hunter S Thompson; The Rum Diary (Puerto Rico) •Henry Shukman ; Darien Dogs ( the seedy side of the Caribbean) •Evelyn Waugh; Black Mischief (1930s; Satire) |
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| Cuba | Miller, Tom (Ed.) Cuba Traveler’s Tales 2001 Anthology Tattlin, Isadora Cuba Diaries Bantam Books 2003 Llewellyn Smith, Julia Travels Without My Aunt Michael Joseph 2000 Cuba, etc; in the footsteps of Graham Greene Foehr, Stephen Waking up in Cuba Sanctuary Publishing 2001 Music and everyday life Eire, Carlos Waiting for Snow In Havanna Scribner 2003 cuban boyhood 1950s Richard Neill Looking for La Bomba Penguin 2005 a year in Cuba |
Smith, Stephen The Land Of Miracles Abacus 2001 a journey through modern Cuba Ted Ferguson Blue Cuban Nights Summersdale 2002 Zoë Brân Enduring Cuba Lonely Planet 2002 •Ann Louise Bardach ; Cuba Confidential (non-fiction, politics) •David Chavarría ; Tango for a Torturer (Havanna, political thriller) •Graham Greene; Our Man In Havanna •Pedro Juan Gutierrez; The Dirty Havana Trilogy/ The Insatiable Spider Man •Ernest Hemingway; Islands in the Stream (WW2) •José Latour; Outcast ( Cuban Crime Fiction) •Martin Cruz-Smith ;Havanna Bay (Thriller) •Cecilia Samartin ; Ghost Heart Cuba1950s) |
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| Haiti |
Llewellyn Smith, Julia Travels Without My Aunt Michael Joseph 2000 Haiti, Cuba, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Sierra Leone, Vietnam; in the footsteps of Graham Greene Ian Thomson Bonjour Blanc Vintage 2004 first publ 1980 |
•Edwige Danticat; The Farming of Bones (Domenican side of Haiti) •Graham Greene; The Comedians •Brian Moore; There Is No Other Life |
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| Honduras | •Paul Theroux; Mosquito Coast |
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| Jamaica |
Salewicz, Chris Rude Boy Phoenix 2000 the underbelly of Jamaica Foehr, Stephen Waking up in Jamaica Sanctuary Publishing 2002 Music and everyday life |
•Michelle Paver; Fever Hill (colonial Jamaica ) •Jean Rhys ;Wide Sargasso Sea (Jamaica 19c) |
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| Mexico | Tree, Isabella Sliced Iguana Penguin 2001 Mexico Hickman, Katie Travels With a Circus Flamingo 2001 Mexico; time spent with a travelling circus Cohan, Tony On Mexican Time Bloomsbury 2001 a new life in San Miguel Llewellyn Smith, Julia Travels Without My Aunt Michael Joseph 2000 Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, Argentina, Paraguay, Sierra Leone, Vietnam; in the footsteps of Graham Greene Green, Toby Thomas Moore’s Magician Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2004 in the footsteps of Vasco de Quiroga Simon Courtauld Borderlife Elliot & Thompson travels between USA and Mexico |
Graham Greene The Lawless Road Vintage Mexico 1938 •J B Aspinall ;Gringo Soup • Ronan Bennett; Overthrown by Strangers •T. Coraghessan Boyle; The Tortilla Curtain (Californian- Mexican relations) • Jennifer Clement; A True Story Based on lies •Meaghan Delahunt; The Blue House (Frida Kahlo) •Anita Desai ; The Zigzag Way •Graham Greene : The Power And The Glory •Laura Esquivel; Like Water For Chocolate/ Swift as Desire •Carlos Fuentes ; The Years With Laura Diaz •Malcolm Lowrie; Under the Volcano •Cormack McCarthy; All The Pretty Horses (Texas/Mexico) +Border Trilogy •James Runcie ;The Discovery of Chocolate (historical) •Alice Walker; By The Light of My Father’s Smile •Tennessee Williams; The Night of the Iguana (Play) |
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| Nicaragua | Marriott, Edward The Wild Shore Picador 2000 Nicaragua; bull shark fishing |
Rushdie, Salman The Jaguar Smile Vintage 2000 author’s travels 1987 |
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| South America | Darwin, Charles The Voyage of the Beagle Penguin famous expedition 1831-36 Symmes, Patrick Chasing Che Robinson 2001 on the trail of Che Guevara on a motorbike Atlee, Rupert Trail to Titicaca Summersdale 1999 cycling through the Andes Guevara, Ernesto “Che” The Motorcycle Diaries Fourth Estate 1996 journal of the 1951 journey on a motorbike Granado, Alberto Travelling With Che Guevara Pimlico 2003 South America by motorbike 1950s Blashford-Snell, John Kota Mama Headline 2001 1998/99 expedition from Bolivia to Buenos Aieres with reed boats to retrace pre-Inca journeys; |
Matthiessen, Peter The Cloud Forest Vintage 1988 Mann, Mark The Gringo Trail Summersdale 1999 Colombia, Andes, Amazon Green, Toby Saddled With Darwin Phoenix 2000 travelling in Charles Darwin’s footsteps on horseback Blessed, Brian Quest For the Lost World Macmillan 1999 Sepulveda, Luis Full Circle: A South American Journey Lonely Planet 1996 •Louis de Bernieres; The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts/ The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman / Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord •Joseph Conrad; Nostromo •Gabriel Garcia Marquez; In Evil Hour/ Of Love and Other Demons •Ester M McIntosh; The Salt of the Earth |
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| Amazon | Allen, Benedict Mad White Giant Faber & Faber 1985 Clark, Leonard The River Ran East Traveler’s Tales 2001 Amazon; travels 1950s O’Hanlon, Redmond In Trouble Again Penguin 1989 Kane, Joe Running the Amazon Pan 1997 Blashford-Snell, John; Snailham, Richard East of the Amazon John Murray 2003 sequel to ‘Kota Mama’ Candice Millard River of Doubt Little, Brown 2005 1912 journey of Theodore Roosevelt into the Amazon jungle |
Davis, Wade One River Simon & Schuster 1998 Montgomery, Sy Journey of the Pink Dolphins Pocket Books 2000 searching for rare dolphins Gordon, Nick In the Heart of the Amazon Metro Publishing 2002 David G Campbell A Land of Ghosts Jonathan Cape 2004 ecology Harrison, John Off the Map Summersdale 2001 •Isabel Allende;City of the Beasts |
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| Andes | Mann, Mark The Gringo Trail Summersdale 1999 Andes, Amazonas, Colombia Murphy, Dervla Eight Feet In The Andes Flamingo 1995 Andes/Peru; walking the length of Peru with mule (Juana) and daughter (Rachel) |
McCarthy, John; Keenan, Brian Between Extremes Black Swan, 2000 Andes; Chile; Patagonia Atlee, Rupert Trail to Titicaca Summersdale 1999 Andes; cycling •Mario Vargas Llosa; Death in the Andes •Colin Thubron; The Last City (trekking) |
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| Patagonia | Harrison, John Where the World Ends John Murray 2000 Patagonia; Tierra Del Fuego Whitehead, Anne Bluestocking in Patagonia Profile 2003 biographical; Mary Gilmour’s time in Paraguay and Patagonia |
McCarthy, John; Keenan, Brian Between Extremes Black Swan, 2000 Patagonia; Chile Chatwin, Bruce In Patagonia Vintage 1998 |
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| Tierra Del Fuego | Harrison, John Where the World Ends John Murray 2000 Tierra Del Fuego; Patagonia |
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| Argentina | Llewellyn Smith, Julia Travels Without My Aunt Michael Joseph 2000 Argentina, Paraguay, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Sierra Leone, Vietnam; in the footsteps of Graham Greene Atlee, Rupert Trail to Titicaca Summersdale 1999 Argentina,Chile, Bolivia; cycling through the Andes |
•Graham Greene; The Honorary Consul •Manue Vásquez Montalbán ; The Buenos Aires Quintet (crime novel •Santa Montefiore; Meet Me Under the Ombu Tree •Colm Tóibin; The Story of the Night |
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| Buenos Aires | France, Miranda Bad Times in Buenos Aires Phoenix 1999 Buenos Aires |
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| Bolivia | Chapman, Simon The Monster of the Madidi Aurum 2001 search for the giant ape of the Bolivian jungle Atlee, Rupert Trail to Titicaca Summersdale 1999 Argentina,Chile, Bolivia; cycling through the Andes |
Ernesto “Che” Guevara Bolivian Diary Pimlico 1960s •Rusty Young; Marching Powder (5 years in a Bolivian prison; biographical) |
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| Brazil | Woodall, James A Simple Brazillian Song Abacus 1996 Rio de Janeiro; samba music Malathronas, John Brazil; Life, Blood, Soul Summersdale 2003 Peter Robb Death in Brazil Bloomsbury 2004 Ruy Castro Rio de Janeiro Bloomsbury 2004 |
Moritz Thomsen The Saddest Pleasure Graywolf Press 1990 Brazil/ Amazon •Jorge Amado ; Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands ( Bahia) •Bruce Chatwin; The Viceroy of Quidah (Brazil 19th century) •Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza ; The Silence of the Rain (crime novel set in Rio) •Paolo Lins ; City of God (Rio) •Patricia Melo; Inferno(drug trafficking in Rio) •Andrew Pyper; The Trade Mission (amazonian jungle) |
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| Chile | Wheeler, Sara Travels In A Thin Country Abacus 1995 McCarthy, John; Keenan, Brian Between Extremes Black Swan, 2000 Chile; Patagonia Atlee, Rupert Trail to Titicaca Summersdale 1999 Argentina,Chile, Bolivia; cycling through the Andes |
•Isabel Allende; The House of the Spirits/ Daughter of Fortune •Isabel Allende; My Invented Country (memoir) •Roberto Bolaño; by Night in Chile •Ariel Dorfman; Hard Rain/ The Nanny and the Iceberg •Ben Richards; The Mermaid and the Drunk |
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| Colombia | Grant, David Via el Vet! Pocket Books 2002 a vet in Colombia Nicholl, Charles The Fruit Palace Vintage 1998 cocaine Rendell, Matt Kings of the Mountains Aurum 2003 Colombia’s cycling heroes |
Mann, Mark The Gringo Trail Summersdale 1999 Colombia; Andes, Amazon Smith, Stephen Cocaine Train Abacus 2000 •Gabriel Garcia Marquez; One Hundred Years of Solitude/ The General in his Labyrinth •James Siegel ; Detour (thriller) •Fernando Vallejo; Our Lady of the Assassins |
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| Ecuador | Mark Honigsbaum Valverde’s Gold Macmillan 2004 search for Inca gold in 1887 Neville Shulman Climbing the Equator, Running the Jungle Summersdale 2005 |
Tom Miller The Panama Hat Trail Adventure Press 2002 •James Scudamore ; The Amnesiac Clinic |
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| Guyana | •Oonya Kempadoo; Buxton Spice |
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| Paraguay | Llewellyn Smith, Julia Travels Without My Aunt Michael Joseph 2000 in the footsteps of Graham Greene Gimlette, John At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig Hutchinson 2002 Whitehead, Anne Bluestocking in Patagonia Profile 2003 biographical; Mary Gilmour’s time in Paraguay and Patagonia |
Cawthorne, Nigel The Empress of South America heinemann 2002 life of Eliza Lynch, 19th century •Anne Enright; The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (19th cent) |
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| Peru |
Parris, Matthew Inca Kola Phoenix 1993 Shah, Tahir Trail Of Feathers Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001 in search of the Birdmen of Peru; peruvian folklore and magic Murphy, Dervla Eight Feet In The Andes Flamingo 1995 walking the length of Peru with mule and daughter Tahir Shah House of the Tiger King John Murray 2004 through the Peruvian jungle in search for an Inca city Hugh Thomson Cochineal Red Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006 pre-columbian cultures |
Patrick Leigh Fermor Three Letters From the Andes John Murray 1970s Thomson, Hugh The White Rock Phoenix 2001 in search of an Inca Site •A B Daniels; The Puma’s Shadow (16th century) •Nicholas Shakespeare ; The Vision of Elena Silves ( jungle) •Nicholas Shakespeare ; The Dancer Upstairs (Terrorism) •Colin Thubron; The Last City ( trekking in the Andes) •Thornton Wilder; The Bridge of San Luis Rey (18th c ) / Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter |
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| Venezuela | •Christina Konig ; Undiscovered Country (Venezuela WW2) |
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