Richard Matheson wrote a short book about the last man on earth, both "The last man on Earth" and "The Omega Man" are based on the book. It is very good.

Also a book called "Hollow Man" (Not like the movie) by.... Dan Simmons. It is about a man who is forced to cope with "the power and pain of telepathy" after his only protection from the thoughts of all the world leaves him. A great book for any who fell alone in a crowd.

I don't belive in signatures...

No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by... uh... me. Lawdie, how unseemly...but it just came out and I need readers, particularly veterans of the low-budget, squat toilet, banana pancake road.
Please click on the title if you're interested - you can read an online chapter (Pushkar, bhang lassis, monkeys, gastric distress...), see photos and reviews.
If you read the book and like it, I'd be much obliged if you'd help spread the word as the budget for this one is like the one I've always traveled on : microscopic!

No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by Ayun Halliday
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Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road- Cameron Tuttle
Zen and the Art of Motercycle Maintenance- Pirsig (?)
Dharma Bums- Kerouac
On the Road- Kerouac
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson
hrmmmmmmmmm......
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Road Trips, Head Trips, and Other Car- Crazed Writings
hrmmmmmm again....
I'll get back to you if I think up any more!

"At least I've got frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth" -Cacoethes

So y'all have been at this list for a while, but I'm surprised no one has mentioned "The Long Walk" by Slavomir Rawicz. It's a memoir written in the 1950's of a Polish calvary officer who was sent to a gulag in Siberia, escaped with 5 other prisoners and walked to India.

It's astounding.

Welcome Mr. RambleTurk....sorry we never converted your old profile to the new bootsnall membership.

Folks here is a Travelogue by Andy

I'll be sure to check out that book in the meantime.

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I just finished A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain and what a joy! a page turner and very funny ... what a sweet gig this man had, traveling wherever he wanted on the food network's tab in search of a perfect (not necessarily fancy) meal - he's upfront about his wonderful and perhaps not entirely deserved good fortune, which makes me like him very much indeed on the page.

No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by Ayun Halliday
http://www.ayunhalliday.com

Rumi. Autobiography of a Yogi. and a pocket book of Anais Nin...helped me in Europe!

I just finished "A Fortune Teller Told Me" by Tiziano Terzani.

It's about an Italian journalist based out of Asia who is told by a Hong Kong fortune teller to avoid flying for the next year or he'll die.

Tiziano decides to take the advice to heart and spends the next year travelling Asia and Europe by land and meeting with every "famous" fortune teller along the way.

It's an interesting read and fabulous journey that illustrates just how much the "old" ways are still in practice in this day of science and technology.

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Saw one Hesse reference...Demien is one of my all time favorite books, but he also wrote "Journey to the East" an extreme mind-fuck of a book. Gives a good general idea and specific feeling about roaming, while really being about nothing specific. Also reccomended is Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities." Basically, Marco Polo is telling Kublai Khan about the cities he has seen in his travells. The descriptions are all fantastic (in both senses). They are obviously not real cities, but everythng about the cities is real. This is perfect for the person who has been to many cities and seen so many similaraties in the magic they provide or has only seen one but has seen the many sides it contains.

A really good book I just finished reading is (I am not quite sure on the title of this book but its something like) Vegabonding by Rolf Potts-It is SUCH a good book and gives a whole new perspective on travel

Hey Smashy,

It's actually "Vagabonding." (Vegebonding is when you go looking for produce I think.)

Anyway, he's one the moderators here for the -- aptly enough -- Vagabonding forum. If you read through posts there you may see a few from him. I don't think he's posted recently though. He got this sweet gig driving a Land Rover around the world and writing about it.

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- agree and reinforce Zen and the Art od Motorbike Mintenance

- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. Not popular, but deffinitelly a must-read. My favourite book from one of my favourite writers ever. It's about Marco Polo describing to the tartar emperor Klubai Khan the cities he has travelled in his empire.

- If on a WInter's Night a Traveller
Other by Italo Calvino... I just love his writtings. This one starts with the first chapter of If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, second chapter the Reader finds his book has a printing problem and goes back to the bookstore to replace. When he starts again, it's a whole new book and so forth so on. The book - inreal life - intercalates initial chapters of many different novels with the adventures of the Reader searching for his female Reader and other adventures.


Any edition of The Travels of Marco Polo, the real thing... A CLassic.

The Book of Thousand Nights and One Night
This is actually four volumes... so it might be a little too much to carry around inthe pack, but still... the original version of the classical thousand and on nights Arabian Nights story where in order to delay her execution, Shaharazad tells her murdering husband, King Shahryar, a wonderfully exciting story every night.

Sparring with Charlie - Christopher Hunt

About a guy who motorbikes down the Ho Chi Minh trail

No shitting in the toilet - Peter Moore

Alternative travel guide highlighting the worst of everything!

Anything my Tim Moore - Do not pass go, Frost on my moustache, French revolutions etc...

"Pack your bags....your out!"

I just remember of another book that sits in the top ofmy mus-read list of travel books, it's The Motorcycle DIaries: A Journey through South America written by Che Guevara when he was 23 and he was just a medical student. This was 3 years before he even met Fidel Castro and seven years before he became the rebel leader. Then he took a trip through SOuth America by motorbike with his friend Alberto Granado. You read through his words how he changes as a person throughout the journey that for him was a moment to get to know his own continent he had no idea about.

I's so so good.

"Catfish and Mandala" by Andrew Pham

It's the story of Vietnamese immigrant in America who decides to return to his homeland about twenty years later and travel it by bike.

It's beautifully written, but fairly depressing as he discovers that you can't go home again.

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