Jack Kerouac‘s On the Road is travel writing as it should be. It is a vivid description of interesting personalities partaking in bizarre adventures that cause them to criss cross the United States for no other reason than to be somewhere else, to experience life in a different place. And that, in my opinion, is […]
Archive | Book Reviews RSS feed for this archive
The Worst Journey in the World
“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.” So Apsely Cherry-Garrard begins the telling of The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic happenings, but particularly the history of exploration there, have intensely interested me since my travels took me there in January of […]
The Hunchback at Notre Dame
About 15 months ago my father and I made a trip to Paris followed by a roadtrip to Normandy, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. It was an amazing holiday and one I won’t soon forget. It was a great time spent with my father doing something we both love: traveling. One of the highlights of the […]
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail turned out to be a much better buy at the Denver Public Library used book sale than the Theroux sadness I recently read. Granted it was only a dollar as well, but what a great find, or gift rather. And that gift […]
The Old Patagonian Express
About a month ago I stopped at the Denver Public Library’s used book sale and instantly made for the travel section. I didn’t expect to find much more than some old travel guides, but was pleasantly surprised when I started going through the tables covered in books. I grabbed my fair share of old travel […]
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is a fantastic memoir of what life was like growing up in Des Moines, Iowa in the 1950s for Bill Bryson. And as far as I’m concerned, despite a 30 year difference, it’s not much different than what it was like growing up for me just a […]
Jason's Travels 