5 Best Travel Books To Inspire Your Next Trip
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It's true no matter what your experience: travel transforms you. Whether you're headed out on a beach vacation with family or a months-long international backpacking trip, you'll return home different from how you left it. This is the magic of travel writing captured in the best travel books: expressing the transformative nature of travel and encouraging readers to do the same.
In this ultimate guide to the best travel books, we share the most page-turning books to inspire your next adventure. You'll find everything from a book of the photography of Egypt's great treasures to an inspired guide to the best places for a quiet, zen escape from the hustle and bustle. No matter which of these inspiring books you choose, they'll have you packing your bags in no time.
1. Quiet Escapes: 50 Inspiring Destinations to Find Your Zen, Emma Thomson
Travel isn't always about the biggest and brightest: it's also about finding refuge and peace to recharge and renew. From deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon to city breaks with peaceful escapes among chaos, Emma Thomson's Quiet Escapes: 50 Inspiring Destinations to Find Your Zen covers some of the best destinations and travel experiences for this quiet contemplation we all need.
Get ready to be inspired: you've likely never heard about the majority of these special spots and unique travel experiences. Thomson's travel stories read like the perfect mix of aspiration and inspiration, with just enough practical details to get you started planning your own retreat.
Offering both a new travel philosophy and the practical inspiration to get you there, Quiet Escapes is an exceptional addition to your travel book collection or a fabulous gift for any traveler on your holiday gift list.
2. 36 Hours World: 150 Cities from Abu Dhabi to Zurich, The New York Times
With detailed yet easy-to-read itineraries for the perfect long weekend in favorite cities around the world like Bogotá, Dakar, and Beijing, 36 Hours: World is the ultimate travel inspiration in the form of a beautiful book that will live permanently on your coffee table. It's so good it will never make it to your shelf.
Travel newbies will appreciate the expert insights, while more seasoned travelers will find inspiration for their next off-the-beaten-path getaway. Stunning photos and personal stories make it engaging even if your next trip is more in the dream stage than the planning phase.
36 Hours: World is just the beginning: The New York Times has countless books in the 36 Hours series, including unique options for weekend trips in Europe, and regional U.S. and Canada versions to inspire road trips and long weekend drives.
Use regional versions like 36 Hours: Latin America and Caribbean (my favorite!) and 36 Hours: Asia and Oceania as the backbone for some incredible itineraries to take you around the world.
3. World Travel, Anthony Bourdain
Offering a unique mix of travel guides, fascinating stories, words of advice, and travel philosophy, all in his unique voice, World Travel is both an inspiration and reflection from one of the travel greats. You don't need an excuse to pick up this book: it's a page-turner covering Bourdain's favorite spots, from backpacker favorites to destinations you couldn't even dream of.
Obsessively watching his shows through the years shaped my own travel philosophy immensely. At a time when most travel shows were making formulaic guides to European cities, Anthony Bourdain was careening his way through off-the-beaten-path destinations and having incredible cultural experiences most viewers never imagined.
World Travel captures that same lightning in a bottle and is a must for travelers whether you've ever had the joy of living vicariously through the travels of Anthony Bourdain or not.
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4. Take More Vacations, Scott Keyes
Travel is much, much more affordable than most people realize. The book Take More Vacations is here to help you crack the code to affordable travel, if you want to, well, take more vacations - no matter your travel budget.
From Scott Keyes, the founder of Scott's Cheap Flights (now, Going!) comes one of the best books you can read if you're looking to get into travel hacking, but the idea of points, credit cards, and loyalty programs makes your head spin.
Explaining the (surprisingly simple!) principles that have made Scott's Cheap Flights among the very best in the business at saving you money, Scott's stories are worth their weight in gold. After you read Take More Vacations, you'll never plan a trip the same way again. You'll just be planning more of them.
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5. The Catch Me If You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World, Jessica Nabongo
The first black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world, Jessica Nabongo shares her story in The Catch Me If You Can. This much-loved book is a unique mix of memoir, travel guide, and inspiration for your own adventure.
Organized chronically by country visited, each chapter offers a snapshot of a country, a time, and an experience. The Catch Me If You Can makes for a unique story from a fresh and inspiring travel voice that will leave you wanting more.
Whether you're just dreaming of your next vacation or getting started planning, picking up one of these must-read travel books will inspire, inform, and guide you. From memoirs to more practical city guides, travel writing comes in many shapes and sizes but serves the same purpose: transforming us, just as we're transformed when we travel.
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