This is the only book about traveling in China by Paul Solow. He traveled more than half of China by train. He was accompanied by a China scholar named Fang. Although Saul complains in his book that some scholars are spying on him, this scholar is more convenient for his travel. Even went to Tibet alone. This book won the 1988 Thomas Cook Tourism Literature Prize.
2. Flying to the West at Night
Author Beryl Markham's book focuses on her childhood in Africa, how to learn to hunt, her deep friendship with local aborigines, and flying a propeller plane alone. It also includes that she flew across the Atlantic alone at 1936, which sounds like a cool thing.
Of course, in this process, she also encountered various difficulties, both from nature and politics. She wrote in the book: "There is no good plan except her own courage; There is nothing to think about except those beliefs, faces and hopes rooted in your mind-this experience is as magical as finding strangers walking side by side with you at night. You are a stranger. "
3. World: Walking and Writing for Half a Century
Jane? Morris is also a very famous travel writer. Before full-time writing, she was a reporter, climbing Mount Everest with the team to report.
This book is regarded as Morris's masterpiece and a collection of her years of travel and reports. From 1950s to 1990s, all the stories and feelings of her interviews and travels around the world are included in this book, with more than a dozen short articles and nearly 90 * * * articles every decade.
From Britain, France, Germany to the United States, Canada, Australia, and then to the Middle East and even Africa, the changes and social changes in various countries after World War II in the 20th century were presented by the author. Although this book takes travel as a clue, it is actually recording the changes in the world pattern.
4. In Patagonia Plateau
Bruce Chatwin is not only an excellent travel writer, but also a photographer with unique vision and first-class taste. In addition to these two identities, he is also an art connoisseur and the youngest art director in Sotheby's history.
His travel works make readers feel that the scenery of the journey is largely the projection of the traveler's heart, and the author's experience, interest and attitude will be reflected in the written travel.
5. A trip to Ireland
This book is a classic of Heinrich B?ll, the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972. It is his travel notes written in 1957. Ireland is a fascinating country, and countless writers have described this fascinating place. This book records Burr's three trips to Ireland and is regarded as "the most compassionate prose masterpiece in the 20th century".