The books are the best way to move to another reality for a time. Books are those inciters to change our world, to enter into other realities, better or worse, to which we are living.
There are as many books as people: large, small, practical, intelligent, useless, elaborate ... But whatever they are, they always have something to teach us.
Today we want to dedicate this post to those who teach us to travel, those who just open them move us to other places.
We leave you a selection of 10 books that inspire travel:
Lonely Planet travel guides
Most likely, you will know them, even if you have ever had one in your hands. Lonely Planet are the famous travel guides that can not be missing in the backpack or handle of any backpacker, traveler or tourist who wants to know another country.
In them we will find all the information we need for it, with recommended itineraries, explanations on what to see and how to move between places, information on where to sleep, where to eat and some photographs that will undoubtedly make you travel through its pages.
How to get them?
Lonely Planet guides in paper format
Lonely Planet guides Kindle format
"The adventure of traveling" by Javier Reverte
In The adventure of traveling: Stories of extraordinary trips (2006) Reverte tells his life as a traveler, explaining his childhood excursions to the war chronicles that took him all over the world. He also narrates his experiences as a backpacker, who have taken him to know some of the most inhospitable places and far from the world.
How to get it?
The Adventure of Traveling by Javier Reverte in paper format
Javier Reverte's Adventure of Traveling
"Ebony" by Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński, considered one of the best reporters of the century, enter the African continent avoiding the common and best known places.
He lives in the humblest houses, with the poorest people, sick with cerebral malaria and is even about to die at the hands of a guerrilla.
In this context, it makes the reader delve into the complex reality of Africa, with its wars, misery and injustice.
Probably Ebony It is the top work of the author, winner of the Viareggio Prize, among others.
How to get it?
Ebony by Ryszard Kapuscinski in paper format
Ebony by Ryszard Kapuscinski in Kindle format
Ebony by Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Seven years in Tibet" by Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer, known as mountaineer and Olympic ski champion was surprised by World War II on an expedition by the Himalayas.
Being an Austrian, the English detained him in a concentration camp in India where he had several attempts to escape until he manages to flee to Tibet and reach the forbidden city of Lhasa. Here he remained seven years, living with an unknown people at that time, becoming the tutor of the young Dalai Lama.
A classic travel literature, recently taken to the cinema.
How to get it?
Seven years in Tibet in paper format
Seven years in Tibet
"1000 sites to see before you die" by Patricia Schultz
Could you be in London and not enjoy tea at the Ritz? Who can stop eating a hot dog at Superdawg in Chicago? Do you know the Ice Hotel in Sweden?
With 1000 sites to see before you die In your hands you can go from places as spiritual as Bagan, in Myanmar, to others as earthy as the commercial district of Hong Kong.
1000 sites to see before you die brings us closer to the places you should see and that you can not miss in a selection of the most exquisite.
It also includes a section with practical information of each place.
How to get it?
1000 sites to see before you die in paper format
1000 sites to see before you die
"UNESCO World Heritage"
UNESCO World Heritage: Descriptions and location maps of the 936 UNESCO World Heritage Sites It is a unique guide with information on each of the World Heritage sites, which includes from the most famous places in the world to others less known.
In its pages we can find from the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in Jordan, passing through the legendary Acropolis of Athens, to the small town of El Jem, in Tunisia.
We will find the 936 places, ranging from its importance in the history of mankind to its contribution of a unique testimony of a cultural tradition, chosen by an intergovernmental committee of 21 members.
How to get it?
Unesco World Heritage Site in paper format
The patrimony of humanity
Towards wild routes of Jon Krakauer
To wild routes it's Jon Krakauer's tribute to the life of Christopher McCandless, a young man who decided to change his life by breaking with everything he had known so far to return to the essence of the human being, forgetting everything material and any type of attachment.
An overwhelming book that leads us to relive the four months that Christopher McCandless was surviving in Alaska.
This book inspired the film of the same name, written and directed by Sean Penn.
How to get it?
Towards wild routes in paper format
To wild routes
Travel photography by Ricarch l'Anson
Traveling is one of the pleasures of life And an amazing experience. This is one of the things that any photographer and any travel photography should reflect. Richard l'Anson explains in this book how to improve skill in composition and technique in travel photography.
The explanations on the techniques to make the most of the knowledge about photography, tips to avoid photographic errors and examples to perfect the techniques explained are highlighted.
Definitely one of those books you want to start with travel photography.
How to get it?
Travel photography in paper format
Travel Photography
The return of Marc Serena's 25
The journalist Marc Serena, the day he turned 25 begins a journey in which for a year interview with 25 young people from 25 countries. Young people that we could catalog with any adjective, rich, poor, with a career, without studies, conservatives, progressives ... all very different from each other with a single common denominator: their age, 25 years.
This book portrays in a unique way the difference of each young person according to the place where he is born.
How to get it?
The return of the 25 in paper format
The return of the 25
Great trips (Travel and Adventure) of AA. VV
This Lonely Planet book invites you to meet and undertake more than 70 great trips, from ancient routes such as the Inca trail that ends in Machu Picchu to classics we have all dreamed of, such as Route 66.
It not only transmits the sensations of the trip but also provides us with all the necessary information to make any of the routes a reality.
How to get it?
Great trips (Travel and Adventure) of AA. VV in paper format
Great Trips
