8 Travel Memoirs that will Inspire You to See the World in 2015
It’s a new year, and that means it’s time to find new
travel inspiration. With topics varying from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
to volunteering around the world to back-alley Vietnamese adventures, we
found eight travel memoirs coming out this year you won’t want to miss.
Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley – February 8, 2015
Lucy Knisley is a graphic memoirist and travelogue
cartoonist with all the witty charm of a modern, twentysomething woman.
In this story, Knisley paints the adventures of her volunteer travels
aboard a cruise ship to watch over her ailing grandparents.
Wide Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family’s Lives Forever by John Marshall – February 10, 2015
John Marshall, a middle-aged man in a deteriorating
twenty-year marriage and father to two teenagers lost in their own
worlds, decided to take his family on a trip around the world to
reconnect again. To keep the trip affordable, they decided to volunteer
their way around the globe, and the experience made their travels more
meaningful than Marshall could have imagined.
Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table by Graham Holliday – March 17, 2015
Graham Holliday, an English journalist and blogger, was so
inspired from a single picture of Hanoi that he decided to pack up and
move halfway across the globe to live the life contained in that
picture. In this book, Holliday takes the reader on a journey through
the mouthwatering back alleys of Hanoi and Saigon, where he finds a bit
of love as well.
Life is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America by Bruce Weber – March 17, 2015
Bruce Weber is an obituary writer for the The New York
Times who, at 57, decided to take a lone cross-country bicycle ride from
the Oregon coast to New York City’s George Washington Bridge. His
mid-life-crisis-inspired travelogue and memoir chronicles his
meditations and reservations, as well as all of the adventures and
people he met along his 90-day, 4,122 mile journey.
Around the Country in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth by Albert Podell – March 24, 2015
Albert Podell is a record-setting traveler; he recently
became the first American to visit every single country in the world and
has also set the record for completing the longest automobile journey
of all time. In this memoir, Podell recounts his most memorable travels,
such as those during riots, revolutions, civil wars, earthquakes,
cyclones, tsunamis, animal attacks, child soldier encounters, and, of
course, those with beautiful women.
Gorge: My 300-Pound Journey Up Kilimanjaro by Kara Richardson Whitely – April 7, 2015
In this memoir, Kara Richardson Whitely recounts her third
journey up the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro—at 300 pounds. Richardson
Whitley openly describes her struggles with food addiction, something
she refuses to let stop her from reaching the top of the highest
freestanding mountain in the world. She had successfully reached the top
on her first try years prior, but after a failed second attempt, she
gained up to 360 pounds and became discouraged from trying again. This
inspiring story details the way she decided that the only way out of her
rut was to stop waiting for her weight to drop and just climb the
summit once again.
Eating Rome: Living the Good Life in the Eternal City by Elizabeth Helman Minchilli – April 7, 2015
Based on her blog Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome,
this memoir allows readers to follow Minchilli on her stroll through the
city’s monuments to discover Italy’s food culture. She not only
describes the best places to go to, she explains why Italians love them.
This book is filled with detailed descriptions of the best trattorias,
cafes, pizzerias, and gelaterias of Rome, and also mouthwatering recipes
you can try at home.
My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine by Kate Betts – May 12, 2015
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