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The Top Ten Most Influential Travel Books

Even before there were armchairs, voracious bookworms traveled the world just by reading

Tony Perrottet

Contributing writer

William H.H. Murray's guidebook to the Adirondacks “kindled a thousand camp fires and taught a thousand pens how to write of nature,” inspiring droves of American city-dwellers to venture into the wild and starting a back-to-nature movement that endures to this day. Of course, Murray's slender volume was part of a great literary tradition. For more than two millennia, travel books have had enormous influence on the way we have approached the world, transforming once-obscure areas into wildly popular destinations.

A detailed selection would fill a library. So what follows is a brazenly opinionated short-list of travel classics—some notorious, some barely remembered—that have inspired armchair travelers to venture out of their comfort zone and hit the road. 

1. Herodotus, Histories (c.440 BC)

Homer's Odyssey is often referred to as the first travel narrative, creating the archetypal story of a lone wanderer, Odysseus, on a voyage filled with mythic perils, from terrifying monsters like the Cyclops to seductive nymphs and ravishing sorceresses. As may be.  But the first real “travel writer,” as we would understand the term today, was the ancient Greek author Herodotus, who journeyed all over the eastern Mediterranean to research his monumental Histories. His vivid account of ancient Egypt, in particular, created an enduring image of that exotic land, as he “does the sights” from the pyramids to Luxor, even dealing with such classic travel tribulations as pushy guides and greedy souvenir vendors. His work inspired legions of other ancient travelers to explore this magical, haunted land, creating a fascination that reemerged during the Victorian age and remains with us today. In fact, Herodotus qualifies not just as the Father of History, but the Father of Cultural Travel itself, revealing to the ancient Greeks—who rarely deemed a foreign society worthy of interest—the rewards of exploring a distant, alien world.

  2. Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo (c.1300)

When the 13th-century Venetian merchant Marco Polo returned home after two decades wandering China, Persia and Indonesia, the stories he and his two brothers told were dismissed as outright fiction—until (legend goes) the trio sliced open the hems of their garments, and hundreds of gems poured to the ground in a glittering cascade. Still, Polo's adventure might have remained all but unknown to posterity if an accident had not allowed him to overcome his writer's block: Imprisoned by the Genoans in 1298 after a naval battle, he used his enforced leisure time to dictate his memoirs to his cellmate, the romance writer Rustichello da Pisa. The resulting volume, filled with marvelous observations about Chinese cities and customs and encounters with the potentate Kublai Khan (and including, admittedly, some outrageous exaggerations), has been a bestseller ever since, and indelibly defined the Western view of the Orient. There is evidence that Polo intended his book to be a practical guide for future merchants to follow his path. The vision of fabulous Chinese wealth certainly inspired one eager and adventurous reader, fellow Italian Christopher Columbus, to seek a new ocean route to the Orient. (Of course, Islamic scholars will point out that the 14 th -century explorer Ibn Battuta traveled three times as far as Polo around Africa, Asia and China, but his monumental work Rihla , “The Journey,” remained little known in the West until the mid-19th century).

3. Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

When the author of Tristram Shandy penned this extraordinary autobiographical novel, the Grand Tour of Europe as a rite of passage was in full swing. Wealthy young British aristocrats (almost invariably male), took educational expeditions to the great cultural sites of Paris, Venice, Rome and Naples, seeking out the classical sites and Renaissance artworks in the company of an erudite “bear leader,” or tour guide. Sterne's rollicking book suddenly turned the sober Grand Tour principle on its head. The narrator deliberately avoids all the great monuments and cathedrals, and instead embarks on a personal voyage, to meet unusual people, seeking out new and spontaneous experiences: (“'tis a quiet journey of the heart in pursuit of NATURE, and those affections which arise out of her, which make us love each other—and the world, better than we do.”) His meandering journey across France and Italy is filled with amusing encounters, often of an amorous nature (involving assorted chamber maids and having to share rooms in inns with member of the opposite sex), which prefigures the Romantic era's vision of travel as a journey of self-discovery. Even today, most “true travelers” pride themselves on finding vivid and unique experiences, rather than generic tourist snapshots or lazy escapes.

4. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (1869)

Writers of the Gilded Age (a term Mark Twain incidentally coined) produced thousands of earnest and tedious travel books, a tendency that Twain deftly deflated with Innocents Abroad. Sent as a journalist on a group cruise tour to see the great sights of Europe and the Holy Land, Twain filed a series of hilarious columns to the Alta California newspaper that he later reworked into this classic work. With its timely, self-deprecating humor, it touched a deep chord, lampooning the naïveté of his fellow Americans (“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad”) and the modest indignities of exploring the sophisticated Old World (“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”) The result was to embolden many more of his fellow countrymen to fearlessly cross the pond and immerse themselves in Europe, and, hardly less importantly, to begin a new style of comic travel writing that echoes today through hugely popular modern authors such as Bill Bryson. Today, Innocents Abroad is one of the few 19th-century travel books that is still read eagerly for pleasure. (Its perfect companion is, of course, Roughing It , Twain's account of his misspent youth as a miner in the wild American West).

5. Norman Douglas, Siren Land (1911)

The Italian island of Capri began its proud reputation for licentiousness in ancient Roman times, and by the mid-19 century was luring free-living artists, writers and bon vivants from chilly northern climes. (It was even said that Europe had two art capitals, Paris and Capri). But its modern reputation was sealed by the libertine writer Norman Douglas, whose volume Siren Land offered an account of the carefree southern Italian life “where paganism and nudity and laughter flourished,” an image confirmed by his 1917 novel South Wind , where the island is called Nepenthe, after the ancient Greek elixir of forgetfulness . (Siren Land gets its title from Homer’s Odyssey; Capri was the home of the Sirens, ravishing women who lured sailors to their deaths by shipwreck with their magical voices). Millions of sun-starved British readers were captivated by the vision of Mediterranean sensuality and Douglas' playful humor. (“It is rather puzzling when one comes to think of it,” he writes, “to conceive how the old Sirens passed their time on days of wintry storm. Modern ones would call for cigarettes, Grand Marnier, and a pack of cards, and bid the gale howl itself out.”) Douglas himself was flamboyantly gay, and liked to scamper drunkenly around Capri’s gardens with vine leaves in his hair. Thanks largely to his writings, the island in the 1920s entered a new golden age, luring exiles disillusioned by post-war Europe. The visitors included many great British authors who also penned travel writing classics, such as D.H. Lawrence (whose marvelous Etruscan Places covers his travels in Italy; Lawrence also showed drafts of the torrid Lady Chatterly’s Lover to friends while on holiday in Capri in 1926), E.M Forster, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene and W.H. Auden. (The renowned poet wrote a travel volume on Iceland, of all places). The collective vision of Mediterranean freedom has inspired generations of travelers to those warm shores ever since.

6. Freya Stark, The Valley of the Assassins (1934)

The Victorian age produced a surprising number of adventurous women travel writers—Isabella Bird, for instance, wrote about exploring Hawaii, the Rocky Mountains and China—but the authors were regarded as rare and eccentric exceptions rather than role models by female readers. In the more liberated era of the 1930s, Freya Stark's tome revealed just how far women could travel alone and live to write about it. Her breakthrough book, The Valley of the Assassins , was a thrilling account of her journey through the Middle East. Its highlight was her visit to the ruined stronghold of the Seven Lords of Alamut, a medieval cult of hashish-eating political killers in the Elburz Mountains of Iran whose exploits had been legendary in the West since the Crusades. (The singular escapade made her one of the first women ever inducted into the Royal Geographical Society.) The bestseller was followed by some two dozen works whose freshness and candor inspired women to venture, if not by donkey into war zones, at least into exotic climes. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world,” she enthused in Baghdad Sketches . “You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.”

7. Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)

This thinly veiled autobiographical novel, about a group of young friends hitch-hiking and bumming their way across the United States, has inspired generations of restless readers to take a leap into the unknown. Although the publisher made Kerouac change the actual names (Kerouac became Sal Paradise, the wild driver Neal Cassady became Dean Moriarty and poet Allen Ginsberg became Carlo Marx), its episodes were almost entirely drawn from life, qualifying it as a classic of travel writing. It was also a cultural phenomenon: Kerouac legendarily hammered out the whole lyrical work on a giant scroll of paper (possibly on one speed-induced binge), and carried it about in his rucksack for years before it was published, becoming an instant icon of the rebellious “beat” era, thumbing its nose at the leaden conformity of the cold war era. Today, it is still a dangerous book to read at an impressionable age (at least for younger males; women tend to be left out of the boyish pursuits, except as sex objects). The delirious sense of freedom as Kerouac rides across the wheat fields of Nebraska in the back of a farm truck or speeds across the Wyoming Rockies toward Denver is infectious.

8. Tony and Maureen Wheeler, Across Asia on the Cheap (1973)

It was one of history's great self-publishing success stories. When two young travelers roughed it in a minivan from London to Sydney, they decided to write a practical guide about their experiences. Working on a kitchen table, they typed out a list of their favorite budget hotels and cheap restaurants from Tehran to Djakarta, stapled the copied pages together into a 90-page booklet and sold it for $1.80 a pop. Their instincts were correct: There was a huge hunger for information on how to travel on a budget in the Third World, and the modest booklet sold 1,500 copies in a week. The hit became the basis for Lonely Planet, a vast guidebook empire with books on almost every country on earth. The young and financially challenged felt welcomed into the exotic corners of Nepal, Morocco and Thailand, far from the realm of five-star hotels and tour groups, often for a few dollars a day. The guidebooks' power quickly became such that in many countries, a recommendation is still enough to make a hotelier's fortune. (Having sold 100 million copies of their guidebooks, the Wheelers finally sold Lonely Planet for £130 million in 2010 to the BBC. (The BBC recently confirmed plans to sell the franchise to NC2 Media at a loss for just £51.5 million. Nobody ever claimed Across Asia was high literature, but the Wheelers now help fund a literary institution, The Wheeler Center, in their home city of Melbourne, Australia, to promote serious fiction and non-fiction). 

9. Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia (1977)

Along with Paul Theroux's wildly entertaining Great Railway Bazaar , Chatwin's slim, enigmatic volume became widely credited with the modern rebirth of travel writing. A former Sotheby's art auctioneer, the erudite Chatwin famously quit the London Sunday Times Magazine via telegram to his editor (“Have gone to Patagonia”) and disappeared into the then little-known and remote tip of South America. In a stylistic first for the genre, In Patagonia weaves a personal quest (for a piece of prehistoric skin of the mylodon, which the author had seen as a child) with the region's most surreal historical episodes, related in a poetic, crisp and laconic style. Focusing on god-forsaken outposts rather than popular attractions, Chatwin evokes the haunting ambiance with deftly drawn vignettes from Patagonia's storybook past, such as how Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid lived in a cabin in southern Argentina, or how a Welsh nationalist colony was begun in the windswept town of Trelew. And thus the quirky travel pilgrimage was born.

  10. Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence (1989)

Mayle's breezy account of his mid-life decision to escape dark and sodden England to renovate a farmhouse in Ménerbes, a village in the south of France, created an entire sub-genre of do-it-yourself travel memoirs filled with charmingly quirky locals. It also inspired thousands to physically emulate his life-changing project, flooding Provence and other sunny idylls with expats in search of a rustic fixer-upper and supplies of cheap wine. Aided by the relaxed residency laws of the European Union, discount airlines and France's super-fast TGV trains, the once-impoverished southern France quickly became gentrified by retirees from Manchester, Hamburg and Stockholm, until it is now, in the words of one critic, a “bourgeois theme park for foreigners.” (Tuscany became equally popular, thanks to Frances Mayes' beguiling books, with the shores of Spain and Portugal following suit). Things got so crowded that Mayle himself moved out – although he has since returned to a different tiny village, Lourmarin, a stone's throw from his original haunt. In recent years, Elizabeth Gilbert's wildly successful Eat Pray Love (2007) offered a similar spirit of personal reinvention, inspiring a new wave of travelers to follow her  path to the town of Ubud in Bali in search of spiritual (and romantic) fulfillment

A Smithsonian Magazine Contributing Writer, Tony Perrottet is the author of five travel and history books, including Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists and The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe; www.tonyperrottet.com

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A Sentimental Journey

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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, first published in 1768. Sterne wrote it after travelling through these countries and meeting Tobias Smollett. Smollett had written Travels Through France and Italy a couple of years earlier, and Sterne had objected to his lack of, let's say, positivity about his travels. So he wrote this book (a Sentimental Journey) as a rebuttal of Smollett's more acerbic one. The book helped establish travel writing, but more than that, it moved it away from the academic objective to the more personal subjective view. Whilst no doubt a travel book, it is written as fiction, with the narrator being the Reverend Mr. Yorick, who recounts his various adventures and love affairs. Sterne died less than a month after A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy was published.

Part of Anne Haight's List of Banned Books .

This book has 40,835 words, 61 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1768.

Production notes: This edition of A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy was published by Global Grey on the 14th July 2021. The artwork used for the cover is 'The Beautiful Grisette' by William Powell Frith.

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Travel Gift Guide – For Trips and At-Home Wanderlust

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What are the best gifts for travellers? This travel gift guide is packed with over 40 inspired travel-themed gifts from trip items to homeware.

So, where on earth do you start when it comes to finding the best gifts for travellers when you can’t afford the luxury of giving a plane ticket?  With this Ultimate Travel Gift Guide, packed with 42 inspired travel-themed gifts, you can find the perfect gift for that special someone for their birthday, Christmas or for when they are just about to set off on a grand adventure. 

From books to help plan a dream trip, or to treat yourself to an extra special present with some fabulous new stationery or to decorate your home with maps and airport codes, there is something to delight everyone, even the loved one who you think already has everything.

40 of the Best Gifts for Travellers – The Ultimate Travel Gift Guide

1. Travelogue

2. one line a day: a five-year memory book diary, 3. lonely planet the world: a traveller’s guide to the planet, 4. 1,000 places to see before you die.

• 5. Deluxe Scratch Maps
• 6. 747 Things To Do On a Plane

7. Compact Travel Journal

8. passion planner diary, 9. wanderlust paper pack, 10. vintage maps and decorative stickers, 11. vintage travel postcards, 12. vintage destination stickers, 13. wings of the world luggage labels, 14. globe bar, 15. airplane travel laundry bag, 16. travel photo album.

• 17. World Map Themed Storage Boxes and Tins 
• 18. Airport Code T-Shirt 

19. Airport Code Cushion

20. jet lag made me do it t-shirt, 21. airport code phone case, 22. airline code bag.

• 23. Eco-Conscious Bamboo Coffee Cup 

24. Travel Sewing Kit

25. stainless steel camera lens mug, 26. penguin books tote bag, 27. dock & bay microfibre beach and travel towel, 28. the lost girl orange penguin travel pouch, 29. jewellery organiser, 30. vw campervan wash bag, 31. travel quotes shower curtain, 32. vintage tourism prints and posters, 33. vintage japan tourism poster, 34. country names vinyl wall world map, 35. photo wall canvas, 36. world map duvet, 37. world globe light, 38. crystal globe bottle stopper, 39. world map pin board, 40. hoodie travel pillow, 41. travel quote phone case, 42. travel themed laptop sleeve, best gifts for travellers: books, journals and planning.

Serious travellers need to look no further, for this travelogue is the ultimate companion for planning the trip of a lifetime. With checklists and scratch maps to keep track of where you have been, and where you are yet to explore – this planner is a sentimental gift that will last forever.

Not everyone blogs or keeps extensive diaries, so this memory book is the perfect gift to remember the best of your travels in the most compact way. With each page featuring room to document the same date over five years, you can instantly relive forgotten moments from the past. 

Move over the humble atlas, as there’s a new book in town to show us the world! Lonely Planet does not disappoint, revealing everywhere you could dream of going in the world. Covering destination highlights along with some quirky facts about the most amazing places, this is the ultimate traveller’s bible.

This insightful read makes the ideal gift for the adventurer in your life, to tick off those bucket list destinations that range from the bizarre to the magnificent.

5.  Deluxe Scratch Maps

Love them or hate them, there’s a demand for scratch-off world maps. However, a more elegant design also looks good when framed. A great idea for tracking where you have been in the world. Top Tip: Use the rubber on the end of a pencil rather than a coin as it is a bit too abrasive!

6.  747 Things To Do On a Plane

We all reach that point where boredom sets in on a long flight. This book is the best travelling companion. Packed with things to entertain, including brain teasers and challenges, your trip just got a whole lot more interesting.

Treat yourself or a loved one to this beautifully designed journal, perfect for recording your visits to far-flung shores.

Make 2016 the year to achieve everything you’ve ever wanted with this planner to map out your goals over the next three years. It features positive quotes for motivation, it is divided into personal and work sections to maintain that work-life balance we all crave and makes the perfect gift for that special someone with a hectic lifestyle.

Travel Gift Guide: STATIONERY

Document your globetrotting with this travel-inspired paper for scrapbooking. Featuring maps and passport stamp wallpaper with coordinating stickers, these designs are worthy enough to make you start crafting if you haven’t already! No longer available. 

Perfect for travel themed arts and crafts, these stickers express your sense of adventure and will brighten up any project.

From one piece of vintage to another, travel postcards with retro images from planes and iconic sites to old tourism posters are so beautiful that you wouldn’t want to post them.

These world edition labels transport us back to steamer trunks from yesteryear. While not quite the same as the Samsonite four-wheeled spinners of today, these labels are the ideal present for nostalgia and fans of vintage travel.

Airlines throughout history have created some of the most stunning retro and old poster designs to depict the glamour of travel. The perfect gift idea for the well-travelled to make their luggage stand out with these alluring and standout labels.

Best Gifts for Travellers: STORAGE

It couldn’t get much more retro with this bar globe, perfect for the gentleman in your life for storing his tipple of choice. In 18th-century cartography design, this beautiful piece has been crafted in Italy and makes a stunning centrepiece for any room.

Make washing laundry more appealing with this colourful drawstring bag, an excellent mainstay for the luggage while wandering the world.

A beautiful keepsake for storing a lifetime of photos, leather photo albums embossed with world maps or words of grand adventures, makes for a perfect gift for the home, or for someone to start recollecting memories. 

17. World Map Themed Storage Boxes and Tins  

You can never have too many storage tins for stashing your worldly possessions, and this eye-catching storage tin is rather surprising. Both delightful and practical, with endless options for storage from travel documents to tea bags!

Travel Gift Guide: FANS OF FLYING

18. Airport Code T-Shirt  

Serious travellers will undoubtedly know their three-letter airport codes, and this t-shirt says it all. Available in two classic colours and for a whole host of airport codes, it’s a unique gift for anything from a birthday present to an inspired Christmas gift.

Inspired by vintage travel, this cushion makes a bold statement piece for any sofa and is the perfect quirky gift. Available as a cover or a complete cushion, you can also choose from a range of airport code designs.

Looking for an amusing gift for that special someone who spends more time in the skies? We think this classic t-shirt ticks the box, available in grey and black.

If you instantly know what ATH stands for, you need this phone case in your life. Inspired by vintage luggage tags, with a range of options to fit iPhone and Samsung Galaxy models of phone.

We have fallen in love with this beautifully designed bag which is versatile for a range of uses from a wash bag to a purse.

Best Gifts for Travellers: ON THE ROAD

23. Eco-Conscious Bamboo Coffee Cup  

Tea and coffee lovers will adore this mug for life, insulated to keep your favourite beverage warm. Also an excellent gift for the eco-conscious, especially from those companies using bamboo or planting trees for every ten mugs sold. 

For any clothing mishaps, a compact sewing kit will come to the rescue. A unique gift idea for a stocking filler or small token gift.

Both fans of novelty gifts and keen photographers will adore this stainless steel lens mug, ideal for drinks on the go.

A multi-use bag for at home or abroad, the Penguin book design makes an inspired gift idea for book lovers. Available in a range of ‘book covers’ and colours, you can’t go wrong.

One of the best inventions of our time, this microfibre towel is the ultimate companion on your trip. Quick-drying, it can be used as a bathroom towel, or for lying on the beach as it doesn’t hold sand in the fibres – so no having to shake out towels. Available in six vibrant colours, these towels stand out on the beach.

Part of a range, this eye-catching travel pouch stores small items safely when travelling, brightening up someone’s day in more ways than one. Also featured in the collection are passport covers and water bottles, which make a lovely gift set.

Your jewellery should have the opportunity to travel in style, without getting tangled during transit. Featuring zipped pockets for storing your prized gems, this is an original gift for her, and she won’t be disappointed.

Campervan enthusiasts will love this wash bag, fully waterproof and complete with side pockets for storing all those bare essentials.

Travel Gift Guide: TRAVEL THEMED HOME DECOR

Motivational travel quotes reveal the inner adventurer in all of us, and this shower curtain sums it all up with a compendium of the best phrases to inspire us to dust off our passports.

A gorgeous travel-themed print made for a lounge or office as a reminder of all things travel-related, and to stamp your personality and love of all things exploring on living space.

A whimsical poster design, reminiscent of the retro adverts in the early days of travel. Beautiful and well balanced, this would make a great addition to an office or living space for peace and contemplation.

A vinyl wall map, uniquely detailed worded country names. A unique idea and a wow factor for any room.

Brighten up someone’s life with this mural which is sure to add colour to their living space too! A vibrant depiction of the world, the paper is easy to apply and comes in a range of sizes, creating a real visual impact for neutral interiors.

Eat, sleep and now dream of exploring the world with this printed map duvet set. An unusual gift idea, and the one place you can go to bed in the UK and wake up in Asia!

This art deco globe makes a beautiful addition to a study or living room, with a warm, inviting light ideal for reading. A well-thought gift for him to light up his world while planning his next globetrotting adventure.

This wine stopper makes a great little present to keep your finest bottle of red fresh as the day you opened it. The perfect think outside of the box gift to show how much you care.

This noticeboard is the gift for those organised people in your life. A magnetic map with a wipe-clean surface, this is made for couples to plan and pinpoint their past, present and future globetrotting. Supplied with ten magnets and two markers, other design options including a foodie, city or a version for children.

Best Gifts for Travel Lovers: THE BEST OF THE REST

The world of travel neck pillows just got better with this added hoodie to provide some shade and warmth, as well as reduce neck strain. Available in three colours, and made for long journeys.

This phone case pretty much sums up how most of us feel when it comes to travelling the world. Will fit a range of iPhone and Samsung Galaxy models.

Give your laptop a stylish way to travel with this gorgeously designed neoprene laptop sleeve, to safely transport your computer. Featuring a map, aeroplane and airmail envelope, it is a travel icon overload and perfect for the wanderer in your life, or for treating yourself.

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"A border-crossing, boundary-breaking story. Observant as Paul Theroux... as compassionate as Ryszard Kapuscinski... as politically astute as Anthony Bourdain... and QUIRKY as hell." The book follows the author from the optimism of the Age of Aquarius through decades of poetic travel, childlike curiosity and disconcerted wonder, in the company of women met along the way. The narrative is woven from conversations and recurring relationships with streetwalkers, street hawkers, beggars and cripples, dreadlocked hashish-smoking holy-men, drug smugglers, rich tourists and travelling business folk. The author is impressed by the simple well-meaning dignity of folk he meets at all levels, and he becomes absorbed in the stories they tell that illuminate the decadent essence and paradox of the human condition under the yoke of prosperity and progress. The author’s journey begins in 1975 on a hippie-trail honeymoon in Asia with his indomitable, young wife. On a near fatal expedition to see Mount Everest, their escape from the high Himalayas is delayed by a plane crash. In following years, the author is obsessed with discovering a “definition of travelling” to guide him recapturing those haunting memories in his treasured notebooks. From the 20th to the 21st century, through country after country the notebooks fill, and the World changes dramatically, and so too does the author. Finally, as an old man he salvages from his notebooks in gripping detail the full story of the perilous mountain trek long ago, and the singing voices that miraculously saved him from violent doom.

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Embracing The Universe (October 7, 2014)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 158 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0615686141
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0615686141
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.6 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.4 x 8 inches
• #10,594 in Time Travel Romances

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Linda lauren.

LINDA LAUREN

4th GENERATION PSYCHIC MEDIUM

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Linda Lauren is a 4th Generation Psychic Medium who owns and operates Linda Lauren’s Embracing The Universe in Mountainside, NJ. She has been a professional psychic since consulting with law enforcement in a murder investigation dating back to 1978. She is most noted for her ability to tap into the energy of a person via Intuitive Zoning™, which is by the touch of a hand, a look into the eyes, or the sound of a voice. When she stares into a person’s eyes, Linda actually “sees” a shaded vision of events just as one would see on television. Slow moving flashes of pictures emerge of past, present or future. Because of this gifted ability, Linda is able to do sixty-second readings, as well as delve into past lives.

Linda Lauren is also a Color and Energy Consultant and connects with people who come to her for guidance through the color and energy she senses around them. This led to the NY Times referring to her as the ‘Travel Psychic™’ wherein she reads that same energy to guide her clients with their travel plans. She is also a Reiki Practitioner; the use of universal life energy to help heal the mind, body and soul.

She is the creator of The Vibe™ Room Energy Clearing Spray and author of the memoir, Medium Rare. She connects with people who come to her for guidance through the color and energy she senses around them. Linda, also known as the “Travel Psychic ™ uses that energy to guide her clients with their travel plans. Linda owns and operates Linda Lauren’s Embracing The Universe in Mountainside, NJ. She has been a professional psychic since assisting law enforcement in a murder investigation in 1978. Linda Lauren is also a Color and Energy Expert, Author and Reiki Practitioner.

Linda has been featured on CNN, ABC-TV Nightline, The Nightly News with Chuck Scarborough on NBC New York, Better TV, WPIX, Open House NYC, in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, People Pets, a&u magazine, The Daily News, Hamptons magazine, The Star Ledger, and the Chicago Tribune. She is the Resident Psychic on the Sway in the Morning Show-SiriusXM and Wild 102.9 Reno and Las Vegas. Lauren has also been heard on The Howard Stern Show, Just Jenny, Freewheelin’ and The Jon Lieberman Show on SiriusXM. She has been a guest on NPR and America’s Radio News Network. She was the resident psychic on The Micky Dolenz In the Morning Show on WCBS-FM in New York.

Her latest book, Sentimental Journey is another time travel romance. Medium Rare-The Memoir of a Fourth Generation Psychic Medium is Linda Lauren’s fascinating life story. Her first book, Hostage in Time, is a paranormal time travel romance. All the books are available in print and e-book format.

As a female entrepreneur, Linda has navigated the spiritual space with a mix of her own products to help with meditation and to keep positive energy flowing around you. Linda also specializes in color and energy readings and corporate consulting workshops. She has been published in Huffington Post and is a contributor to Thrive Global and Medium.com. Linda has been in Fast Company, The NY Times, CNN Travel, Huffington Post Live, Buzzfeed, Bustle, Martha Stewart Weddings, Forbes.com, Today and on Sirius XM. Her column, Psychic Companion, has appeared in The New York Dog and The Hollywood Dog magazines.

Lauren, who knew Jim Morrison, is an avid collector of The Doors and related rock memorabilia, and resides in New Jersey with her spunky Maltese, Karma!

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