10 books that take you to the most visited countries in the world
10 books that take you to the most visited countries in the world
try the most popular travel destinations in the world without leaving your home
On a normal spring day, you can expect the Champ de Mars in Paris to be teeming with tourists. This lively green spot offers an iconic view of the Eiffel Tower and houses crowds of visitors every year - possibly up to 80 million. After all, France is the most visited country in the world.
Since a pandemic captures the globe, the Champ de Mars and the other famous sights-the Louvre, the Cathedral Notre Dame and Sacre-Coeur-are largely empty. The same applies to Spain, the USA, China, Italy and the other most visited countries in the world.
Of course there are ways to experience these countries without a physical journey. Below we list 10 books that take you to the most popular countries in the world.
France
A year in Provence by Peter Mayle
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A year in Provence is one of the most successful travel books of all time and was sold in Great Britain a million times and six million times worldwide.
The memoirs record the first year of the British author Peter Mayle in Provence after he and his wife bought a two hundred year old farmhouse in the Lubéron Valley.
The couple accepts rural life and encounters unexpected and often hilarious consequences. Mayle draws a thoroughly entertaining portrait of the Provencal life, by the administration of clumsy builders and Labyrinthian French bureaucracy to mastery of the local colloquial language and the enjoyment of the region's epicere kitchen.
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Spain
as I Walked Out One Midsummer Morningvon Laurie Lee
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1934 Laurie Lee leaves his sleepy village in the Cotswolds and makes his way to London to make his fortune, armed with little more than an adventure spirit and his faithful violin.
He earns his livelihood with the game in question and work on a construction site. Then, since I only know a Spanish sentence - "please give me a glass of water?". - he decides to travel to Spain.
There he hikes through the country for a year, from Vigo in the north to the south coast, only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary journey.
as I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is Lees Lyrical Report on the beauty and violence of the country.
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United States of America
notes from a large country: trip to the American dream of Bill Bryson
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After almost two decades in England, the inimitable Bill Bryson returns to the country that he left in his youth: the United States of America.
Bryson, a fish of once familiar waters, rediscovers the strange attraction of breakfast spizza, dark American television and shady motel rooms, in which they can be awakened by a penetrating cry and the sound of a pleading female voice at night. "Take the gun down, Vinnie."
with characteristic joke, sarcasm, but also empathy, Bryson skillfully traces the strangest of all beasts: the American Way of Life.
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china
river town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
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Peter Hessler at the end of the 1990s to China in expectation to spend a few peaceful years as an English teacher in the city of Fuling on the Yangtse.
Instead, he experiences the complex process of enlightenment that takes place when you enter a radically different society. Hessler witnesses how major events such as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland or the controversial construction of the three-gorge dam itself affect a remote city like Fuling.
river town is a moving and thoughtful portrait of a country that tries to understand what it was once and what it will be one day.
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Italy
under the Tuscan Sunby Frances Mayes
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Under the Tuscan Sun, another classic of the genre, was on the bestseller list of the New York Times for over two years and inspired a generation of readers to go on their own trip.
With deliciously impressive descriptions of food, wine, local markets and landscapes, Mayes - a poet, gourmet cook and travel writer - are drawing her efforts to restore an abandoned, 200 -year -old villa in the spectacular landscape of Tuscany.
The result is a lyrical, almost sensual report on building a life in a foreign country. In addition to beguiling images, readers expect dozens of seasonal recipes that present the delicacies of Tuscan cuisine.
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Mexico
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Paul Theroux travels the border between the USA and Mexico before venturing into the hinterland on the side streets of Chiapas and Oaxaca to experience the pulsating but complex country that is Mexico today.
Some things he sees is the Mexico of the clichés: drug cartels, police corruption, dark cities and unchecked cities. Further south, however, he finds cities that preserve their indigenous culture with living day of the dead festivals, exuberant transgenderism and closely connected communities.
violent, moving, complex and contradictory, on the plain of snakes is a vital view of Mexico beyond the bright headlines.
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united kingdom
The Salzweg by Raynor Winn
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Just a few days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her 32-year-old husband, is incurable to be sick, is taken away from home and you lose her livelihood. With nothing more and little time you make the impulsive decision to hike the 630 miles from England's South West Coast Path.
You only carry the bare essentials on your back and set off into the ancient, weathered landscape of cliffs, sea and sky. On the way you process your grief and discover the extraordinary power of nature to heal invisible wounds.
lyrical, captivating and inspiring is the Salt Path a story about homelessness, human strength, permanent love and the irrepressible power of hope to defeat the despair.
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turkey
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
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more of a historical biography than a personal travel report, Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities is all the better.
This 800-page Wälzer takes the reader on a dazzling journey through the many incarnations of this glorious city: Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul.
Istanbul is a place where stories and stories collide and served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empire. As the latest political unity in Europe, the city has recorded a variety of cultures in the past 6,000 years. In the last count, archaeologists measured 42 human settlement layers.
The book is divided into short, lively, episodic chapters that offer an flawlessly researched and extremely entertaining insight into one of the greatest cities in the world.
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Germany
The house at the lake of Thomas Harding
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2013 Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin, which she had to leave after the Nazis took over. The house had fallen into a concrete footpath that led and marked through the garden, where the Berlin Wall had been for almost thirty years.
To save the house from demolition, Harding began to dig out the history of the five families who had lived there: a noble farmer, a wealthy Jewish family, a well-known Nazi composer, a widow and her children and a Stasi-Informant
With stories of domestic joy and satisfaction, grief and tragedy and a hatred that has been passed on for generations, the house on the lake is a moving but also elevating look at Germany of the 20th century.
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Thailand
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On the evening before Christmas and a marriage proposal that she does not want, Natalie Appleton decides to start again. She leaves Alberta for the light lights from Bangkok.
There she unpacks her past and all the things you have caused: fraudulent hearts, suffocation in the small town, a broken family and a genetic predisposition to madness.
on the way she kills an albino gecko, crawls to bed with a lamp seller and breaks off almost the whole move when it is almost attacked by a leather dealer. But then, in a grubby guest house, one year after arriving in Thailand, everything changes.
I have something to tell you is a story for everyone who remembers that they have felt lost in their twenties; They were afraid to leave a job, partner or at home; Who has asked the question before, what if?
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If you prefer to flee to fiction, try Kia's new novel Take IT Back, an exciting court drama that was selected by The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Sunday Times as the best new thriller/thriller.
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