If you suffer from wanderlust, just like me, you certainly know how great it feels to travel. The rush of the journey, the feeling of arrival and then the streets, the smells, the tastes and the people of the place you are about to discover, make travelling seriously addictive. Every time I finish a trip, I can’t wait for the next one and I am always looking for chances to travel, even to a nearby city for the day. Last year, I was lucky enough to see amazing places and I want 2016 to be an amazing traveling year as well.
Travel inspiration can come from many places. From a friend who has just been to this amazing place, your favorite travelling blog or magazine and from pictures of places online. But if you are the type of person who needs a deeper source of wanderlust inspiration, here we have five books that will fuel your wanderlust more than anything else.
The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in The World- Lonely Planet
Explore 229 destinations through 817 amazing, colorful images, useful information and insights, maps and key facts about each country. Curated and published by Lonely Planet, the world’s leading travel guide publisher.
A Field Guide to Getting Lost- Rebecca Solnit
Solnit is exploring issues of wandering, being lost and the uses of unknown through emblematic moments and relationships in her own life, resulting in a stimulating voyage of discovery.
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World- Eric Weiner
Why are some places happier than others? This book doesn’t explore what happiness is, but where it is, using a mixture of travel, humor, psychology and science.
The Art of Travel- Allain De Botton
Divided into five sections ‘Departure’, ‘Motives’, ‘Landscape’, ‘Art’, and ‘Return’ the book contains essays on the art of travelling, from the pleasures of anticipation, to the value of noticing everything and finding pleasure even in the most mundane parts of traveling.
… or a classic travel book!
Into the wild by John Krakauer, Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer, Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, Shogun by James Clavell, and so much more!
