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We list some excellent books on the subject of search madness - the perfect reading for your own discovery trips

A all trips are about searching to a certain extent. It can be a deep and longing search for fulfillment, a search for absolution or something far lower (Thailand, someone?).

For some travel is a way to breastfeed a versatile need, be it according to knowledge, enlightenment, fame or revenge. These obsessive searches take travelers on long trips through the wilderness, which usually lead to incredible stories about incredible countries. Sometimes these stories are humiliating; In others they are annoying, but never boring.

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Below we list the most fascinating books on search compulsion - the perfect reading for your own trips abroad.

1 two years before the mast by Richard Henry Dana (1840) As a student in Harvard, Dana has a measles attack that affects his eyesight. Dana believes that it could help his eyesight and leaves Harvard to contact Cape Horn as a simple sailor.
2 Moby Dickby Herman Melville (1851) The story of Captain Ahab's search for revenge for the whale who "harvested" his leg. The search becomes an obsession and the novel for a devilish study of how a man becomes a fanatic.
3 Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nilevon John Hanning Spece (1863) Spece discovered the source of the Nile on August 3, 1858. This is his report on the challenging expedition by today's Zanzibar, Tanzania and Uganda for the great Victoriasee.
4 Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyonsvon John Wesley Powell (1875) In 1869 Powell led a team of 10 men down the green, into the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Nobody had ever made the trip beforehand.
5 Farthest Northvon Fridtjof Nansen (1897) in 1893 Fror Nansen deliberately entered his ship in the Arctic ice and made his way to the North Pole with a dog sled. He and his companion survived a winter in a Mooshütte and eaten walruses and polar bears. The public assumed that they were dead.
6 SAILING Alone Around the Worldvon Joshua Slocum (1900) A treatise by Slocum about his one -handed global conveyance on board the Schauppe Spray. His trip lasted three years and comprised 46,000 miles (74.00 km) and saw him hunted by pirates and haunted by storms and hallucinations.
7 KON-TIKI: Across The Pacific of Raft by Thor Heyerdahl (1948) On a 101-day trip over the Pacific for 4,340 miles (6,985 km) on a wooden raft that was built with skills and materials that were only available to the Peruvians before the conquest, Heyerdahl demonstrated that Polynesian from America could be sailed.
8 a short walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby (1958) Newby quits his job in London and sets off to the Nuristan mountains of Afghanistan, where he hopes to make the first mountaineering climbing of me Samir.
9 Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger (1959) repelled by the rigidity of western life spends the year to explore the wide, waterless desert that is the "empty district" of Arabia in search of a little more.
10 The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher (1968) A chronicle of the first person to go through the 200 miles (322 km) long Grand Canyon.
11 The Feuchul Void by Geoffrey Moorhouse (1974) Moorhouse started to cross the Sahara from west to east over 4,830 km (3,000 miles). He tried to face his fears of loneliness and destruction.
12 The Snow About Peter Matthiessen (1978) The author's report over a 400 km journey through the Himalaya to study the wild blue sheep, but also in the hope of seeing the snow leopard, a creature that is rarely seen that it is almost mythical.
13 Old Glory: A cynical Englishman sails down the Mississippi in search of the meaning of America. As he observes the lives of those who live on his banks, he begins to understand the American psyche.
14 again in difficulties: A journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon of Redmond O’Hanlon (1989) An fearless but poorly prepared ornithologist and his buddy set off to meet the fearsome Yanomami strain in the Amazon. This report on the four -month journey is both captivating and hilarious.
fifteen running the Amazonby Joe Kane (1990) Joe Kane's personal report on the first expedition that traveled to the entire longest flow in the world is a captivating adventure in the tradition of Joseph Conrad.
16 Into the Wildvon Jon Krakauer (1996) This is the now notorious story of Chris McCandless, a college graduent who rejects the relentless striving of the West after success, gives away $ 24,000 and starts looking for enlightenment in the wilderness Alaska.
17 Chasing Cheby Patrick Symmes (2000) After Motorcycle Diaries half a century, Symmes embarks on an adventure through today's South America to rediscover the past and the continued influence of the revolutionary.
18 swimming into the Antarctic: Stories of a long -distance swimmer by Lynne Cox (2005) Cox was the first person to swam through the Magellanstrasse, one of the most tridian waters in the world. After a series of record-breaking performance, she was the first person to swam a mile in 0-degree water. This is your story.
19 My trip to Lhasaby Alexandra David-Neel (2005) at the age of 55 crossed David-Neel in the middle of winter the Himalaya and entered the forbidden tibet, disguised as a native. It was exposed to hunger, bandits and treacherous weather to become the first western woman received by a Dalai Lama.
20 The Lost City of Zby David Grann (2009) In 1925, Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett ventured to a “white spot” on the map of the Amazon - to never return. Eighty years later, David Grann sets out to solve the puzzle to solve Fawcett's death and to answer the most relevant question of the colonel: was the city of Z Real?
21 Wild: A Journey from Lost to Foundvon Cheryl Strayed (2012) at 26 years of age, Cheryl Strayed's marriage breaks and her mother dies of cancer. Since she has nothing to lose, she makes the most impulsive decision of her life: 1,770 km (1,100 miles) to run alone along the west coast of America. The trip has the distant promise of a composite life.
22 Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trez Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson (2013) The last of our books about obsessive is a memory of the author's dangerous discovery mode of 1,700 miles (2,735 km) of the hostile Australian desert to the sea only four camels and a dog as a company.

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