Travel Books and Films
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sv_orangezeus
a3) with my boat anchored just off a remote island with only my family on the whole beach #kidsonboats #LPChat
slimdogindia
PeonyandBlue
A3 - Coasting by Jonathan Raban is amazing - builds great pictures in your mind's eye #LPChat #travel #books
NullNFull
replying to @lonelyplanet @lonelyplanet a3: 'The Way of the World' by #Bouvier It's like a Bible on how to travel meaningfully. #LPChat #books
jayneytravels
A3 Loved travelling the UK with Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island. Some cutting yet accurate remarks on UK had me chortling #LPChat
Pallavisms
replying to @lonelyplanet @lonelyplanet A3. Bill Bryson's I'm A Stranger Here Myself. Just the way he writes is hilarious & extremely descriptive #LPChat
driveonleft
A3 Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island. Funny insight into the UK. Helpful when we moved here #LPChat
jayneytravels
A3 Also A Fine Balance & God Of Small Things are beautiful (weepy) novels set in India #LPChat
EpicJourneys
A3: Old fashioned (and quite non-PC) but "The Drifters" by James A. Michener. Fascinating and a great read. #LPChat
geotheexplorer
A3 - John Krakauer's "Eiger Dreams" - inspiring collection of short stories on climbing in the 21st century. Couldn't put it down. #LPChat
lonelyplanet
RT @driveonleft: A3 Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island. Funny insight into the UK. Helpful when we moved here #LPChat
iAmAileen
A3 - It has got to be 'The Alchemist'. It really fuels a traveler’s drive to pursue his/her adventure! #LPChat
TheGhyGuy
replying to @lonelyplanet @lonelyplanet A3: Hem Barua's Mekong Noi Dekhilu (Saw the River Mekong) in 1967. It created a very romantic picture of the river. #LPChat
GlobalBrunch
A3 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, because it shows how little you need to be happy! #IntotheWild #LPChat https://t.co/V4M1dIS2Y4
KimmieDavies
replying to @lonelyplanet @lonelyplanet #LPChat A3. Obviously it was "the Hobbit" and his adventure. From a young age I was taught "not all who wander are lost"
lonelyplanet
RT @jayneytravels: A3 Also A Fine Balance & God Of Small Things are beautiful (weepy) novels set in India #LPChat
The_LuckyCouple
A3 Lame, and certainly not Shawn's answer, but Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants gave me the Travel bug at a young age! #LPChat
Luxtripper
A3: The Hobbit, and of course it's a travel book! "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks." #LPChat
FloraBaker
A3. On the Road for me - and I'm frantically updating my @goodreads list with all these great travel book suggestions! #LPChat
Morology
replying to @lonelyplanet @lonelyplanet A3: The People's Guide to Mexico by Carl Franz, A true guide book to travel in Mexico. #LPChat
lisa_occhiblu
A3. A Walk in the Woods. Bill Bryson made me believe that I too could hike the Appalachian Trail. #LPChat https://t.co/6aNbm9hYnl
lonelyplanetUK
A3: Tracks by Robyn Davidson made me realise that travel can be hard...but also how grateful I am when it isn't! #LPChat *ES
ThatGentMark
replying to @lonelyplanet #LPChat A3 I think 'Into The Wild'. It was just such a powerful book and the urge to find that 'something' @lonelyplanet
jayneytravels
A3 I'm obsessed with books set in India & anything by Bill Bryson #LPChat http://t.co/XaeSnCbxqD
midgard06
replying to @lonelyplanet @lonelyplanet A3 - "A History of Travel" by Winfried Löschburg, it is about how was travelling started and developed till today! #LPChat
TripTogether
A3 “The Lost Girls” @lostgirlsworld because it’s about traveling together w/ good friends like http://t.co/L2iDSWOBKp #LPChat @lonelyplanet
BizarreCulture
replying to @lonelyplanet @lonelyplanet A3: Coasting by Jonathan Raban which tells the story of the author's 4,000-mile journey around Britain. #LPChat
DanWildeyPhoto
A3 maybe it's too obvious, but #Kerouac - and not just On The Road. Big Sur, Dharma Bums. #LPChat @lonelyplanet @lonelyplanetUK
euroventure
replying to @lonelyplanet @lonelyplanet A3: Paul Theroux's "The Great Railway Bazaar" - captures the magic of train travel perfectly! #LPChat
jcm4828
RT @jayneytravels: A3 Also A Fine Balance & God Of Small Things are beautiful (weepy) novels set in India #LPChat
jayneytravels
RT @lonelyplanetUK: A3: Tracks by Robyn Davidson made me realise that travel can be hard...but also how grateful I am when it isn't! #LPCha…
sogloriaso
RT @driveonleft: A3 Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island. Funny insight into the UK. Helpful when we moved here #LPChat
restlessworker
A3: Eat, Pray, Love .. Inspired me to travel to Italy and Bali @lonelyplanet #LPChat
jayneytravels
RT @FloraBaker: A3. On the Road for me - and I'm frantically updating my @goodreads list with all these great travel book suggestions! #LPC…
ThatGentMark
RT @GlobalBrunch: A3 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, because it shows how little you need to be happy! #IntotheWild #LPChat https://t.co/V4M…
KiaraGallop
replying to @GlobalBrunch @GlobalBrunch @lonelyplanet A3. I totally agree! Into The Wild is an amazing and incredibly moving book - and I loved the film too! #LPChat
jayneytravels
A3 Paul Theroux has fantastic travelogues too & The Invisible Mountain by Caroliona De Roberts is great South America dreaming #LPChat
CeecesTravel
replying to @jayneytravels @jayneytravels A3: his is going to sound odd but #IntroducingNietzscheAGraphicGuide, My favs before a trip! #LPChat
writingtravels
A3 A hard one - I tend to read plain old fiction rather than 'travel' books, many of which also inspire travel in a more subtle way.#LPChat
kirstenjh
A3 stand outs include 8.55 to Baghdad (retracing Agatha Christie's travels) & Cinnamon City (re Marrakech) #lpchat - list evolves!
archibaldushka
A3 - The Pilgrimage of Paulo Coelho is one of the most inspiring books for me #LPChat
kerrydexter
A3: not a travel book as such, but Guy Carawan's Voices of the Mountains continues to inspire http://t.co/pRS66PCeif #LPChat
FloraBaker
A3. I love 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning' too - perfect inspiration for my Camino this Sept! @lonelyplanet #LPChat
Morology
replying to @lonelyplanet A3: Down and Delirious in Mexico City by Daniel Hernandez There is a world to explore beyond the map and guidebook @lonelyplanet #LPChat
DanWildeyPhoto
A3 #JamesBond books probably first piqued my interest in travel - although I've never reached his standards of glamour...! #LPChat
CtheChange
RT @driveonleft: A3 Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island. Funny insight into the UK. Helpful when we moved here #LPChat
dailysuitcase
A3: I like to read (non-travel) books by authors from the country I am visiting, not travel books written from outside perspective. #LPChat
Jgovenden
RT @driveonleft: A3 Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island. Funny insight into the UK. Helpful when we moved here #LPChat
littlebckpacker
A3 Daddys Girl by Margie Orford showed me a side to South Africa I didn’t know much about otherwise. Love a book to educate too #LPChat