15 Inspiring Travel Books You Have to Read
| January 15, 2016
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
-Saint Augustine
From snuggling up with a good book on a transcontinental flight to looking for travel inspiration through the words and tales of others, travelers often look towards books for their travel muse. Here are 15 travel books that will inspire you to hit the road.
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway (1964)
I couldn’t think of a better way to kick-start this list than through the words of Papa himself. In A Moveable Feast, Hemmingway lets us see Paris as he experienced it as a part of the lost generation. Hemingway makes us feel a twinge of jealousy that we can’t sip brandy with the likes of F Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound in the cafes of Paris.
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