Please link your reviews for your Classic Travel or Journey Narrative here. This is only for the Classic Travel or Journey Narrative category. This can be fiction or non-fiction, but the journey itself must be the major plot point -- not just the destination. If you do not have a blog, or somewhere public on the internet where you post book reviews, please write your mini-review/thoughts in the comments section. If you like, you can include the name of your blog and/or the title of the book in your link, like this: "Karen K. @ Books and Chocolate (Travels with Charley)."
Look Back on Happiness was an unexpected title I read by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. The author travels from the woods to a hut, to a lodge by the mountains, the city, back to the country, and it tells us the story of himself and those he encounters in his constant knapsack travels across his country. A different book, different style and familiar yet unique content.
ReplyDeleteI read Five Weeks in a Balloon for this… As much as I loved Verne as a girl, I didn't like the book, reading it with my 34 yo old eyes…
ReplyDeleteI used to read abridged versions of Gulliver's Travels when I was younger. This was my first time reading it in its full (if a little tedious) glory.
ReplyDeleteI read The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford for this category.
ReplyDeleteThree Men in a Boat did not quite live up to my expectations (which were very high, and probably doomed it). Still, it was very enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz was a good choice for this category, since I visited a great sand sculpture with this theme. The book itself is great steampunk fantasy, with some good messages for adults and kids alike, making it a bit of a fable.
ReplyDelete'Sick Heart River' by John Buchan is a more philosophical book than most of his others. Great read, though.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the witty,ironic tone of Travels with Charley. An of course I loved Charley himself!
ReplyDeleteElla Maillart's "Forbidden Journey" is an engrossing read. I never really understood before what they mean by `trackless sands', but I do now.
ReplyDeleteJust finished The Time Machine. What an interesting book! Not at all what I expected.
ReplyDeleteI read Sailing Alone Around the World, the memoir of the first person to solo circumnavigate the globe in a boat, and I really enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteI read The Worst Journey in the World. It was indeed the Worst Journey in the World but a great book. Non-fiction account of the Terra Nova expedition in Antarctica in 1910-1913, author of the book was the youngest member of Capt. Scott's ill fated attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. (They get there, half starved and more than half frost bitten, to find that their rival had gotten there over a month ago. Defeated, they had to go 1000 miles back...). Gripping, ghastly and enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteI read Don Quixote by Cervantes for this category. Because this book is 400 years old and over 1,000 pages long, I somehow expected it to be dry and serious. But it was actually quite funny at times. I'm so glad I read it!
ReplyDeleteI read The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. While he doesn't have a destination other than death, he does do a lot of journeying!
ReplyDeleteI'm sneaking in with Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad, even after I wrote my wrap up post. Twain wandering up the Rhine valley to Switzerland, over the Alps, and into Italy. Funny and interesting both.
ReplyDeleteI read Kon-Tiki
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