Travels with Myself and Another, by Martha Gellhorn, 1978. Swiss explorer and National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2014, Marquis says that walking is a way to “let your soul touch the earth.” Her 1,000-day solo trek from Mongolia to Australia-and her brushes with the Mafia, drug dealers, thieves on horseback, an abscessed tooth, and dengue fever along the way-will stop you in your tracks. Taylor, previously a Harvard fellow, gives the topic the context and meticulous research it deserves, while keeping an eye on current race relations. Taylor estimates that only 5 percent of Green Book places still exist, including Michigan’s Idlewild resort and Los Angeles restaurant Clifton’s. In segregated, mid-century America, The Negro Motorist Green-Book lit the way for African-American travelers as a directory of black-safe businesses. Overground Railroad, by Candacy Taylor, 2020. As “brash as a newcomer” to the Roman-era French town of Aix-en-Provence, Fisher writes that when she “first felt the rhythm of its streets and smelled its ancient smells, and listened at night to the music of its many fountains,” she said, simply, “Of course.” And so begins this American’s memoir about life as a bon vivant-and single mother-in Aix and Marseille, seasoning her accounts with history and geography with the well-balanced nuance of an instinctive chef. ( Related: Travel through time with 21 women explorers who changed the world.) While the world teeters on the brink of war in the 1930s, West reveals the (often troubled) soul of the Balkan Peninsula in a sprawling political portrait threaded with observations both obsolete and eternal. Unauthorized use is prohibited.īlack Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West, 1941.
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