18 books like Let's Go 2003

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Michelin Green Guide (Green Tourist Guides) Michelin Travel Publications · 1985 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Guidebooks, Guides, Travel

The Sheik E. M. Hull · 1919 · ★ 3.3 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Diana Mayo is young, beautiful, wealthy--and independent. Bored by the eligible bachelors and endless parties of the English aristocracy, she arranges for a horseback trek through the Algerian desert. Two days into her adventure, Diana is kidnapped by the powerful Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, who forces her into submission. Diana tries desperately to resist but finds herself falling in love with this… Shares: Guidebooks, Egypt

Station Life in New Zealand Mary Anne Barker · 1870 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A book which tells the story of the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies in the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep-farmer. It also shows the challenges of life. Shares: New zealand, Travel

Triple Ken Follett · 1979 · ★ 4.0 · 470p · ≈ 15h · Moderate It was never determined what had actually happened to the 200 tons of uranium,” but three countries know the truth. Three young men met decades ago and now world events have cast them as adversaries. Nat, Israel’s hero, known as ‘The Pirate’, stages a daring nuclear exploit. Breathing down his neck, the KGB’s Rostov and Egyptian intelligence’s Yassif. A furious race against time builds to an… Shares: Israel, Middle east

The art of travel Sir Francis Galton · 1855 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging First published in 1872. Lavishly illustrated.Everything you would need to mount an expedition into exotic territory in Victorian time. Great for research for historical novels. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Francis Galton (16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical… Shares: Guidebooks, Travel

By the Rivers of Babylon Nelson DeMille · 1978 · ★ 4.0 · 460p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the… Shares: Israel, Middle east

Els viatges d'Ali Bei Ali Bey · 1814 · 465p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares: Middle east, Travel

Queer places Elisa Rolle · 2016 Shares: Guidebooks, Travel

Eldorado Or Adventures In Path Of Empire Bayard Taylor · 1850 · 470p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was already a well-established writer when he traveled to California as special correspondent for the New York Tribune in the summer of 1849. On his return to New York, Taylor established himself not only as one of America's great travel writers but as a true man of letters, producing distinguished novels and poems as well as nonfiction for the next quarter century.… Shares: Mexico, California, Travel

Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt, and an appendix Richard William Howard Howard-Vyse · 1840 · 439p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares: Egypt, Travel

Wallpaper City Guide Editors of Wallpaper Magazine · 2006 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares: Guidebooks, Travel

Life in Mexico Frances Erskine Inglis · 1843 · 553p · ≈ 18h · Challenging It is based on the author’s experiences in Mexico when she accompanied her husband, Angel Calderón de la Barca, on his diplomatic mission from 1839 to 1842 as the first Spanish envoy after Mexico had won its independence from Spain in 1821. Shares: Mexico, Travel

The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain · 1800 · ★ 4.4 · 690p · ≈ 23h · Demanding Twain's letters about his steamship voyage of 1867. Shares: Middle east, Travel

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This volume comprises the second portion of a series of travels. This work includes author's adventure travels in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain. Shares: Travel

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This is an account of a trip Graham Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and… Shares: Travel

Amerikaanse zeerovers A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) Exquemelin · 1679 · ★ 4.0 · 508p · ≈ 16h · Demanding "Unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published...in 1893."Translation of De Americaenesche zee-rovers. Shares: New york, Travel

The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin · 1903 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native… Shares: California, Travel

Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Challenging An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic. Shares: Travel

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