Great Escapes

Some travel books to check out:

• Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Steamer by Christopher Buckley
• Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• The Rainy Season: Haiti - Then and Now by Amy Wilentz
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
• The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux
• One for the Road by Tony Horwitz
• Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey by V.S. Naipaul
• Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey in the Heart of Darkness by Jeffrey Tayler
• Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz
• Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
• Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
• Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire between Moscow and Beijing by Jeffrey Tayler
• In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo by Michela Wrong