Abroad at Home Suggested Readings
(The following list links to Amazon.com; for more about each book, use the links to the left.)
Berlin
Michael Gorra: The Bells in Their Silence- Travels through Germany
James Fenimore Cooper: Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine
Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye To Berlin
Katherine Mansfield: In a German Pension
Christopher Isherwood: Mr Norris Changes Trains
Jerome Klapka Jerome: Three Men on the Bummel
Buenos Aires
Ernesto Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Miranda France: Bad Times In Buenos Aires
Marina Palmer: Kiss and Tango - Looking for Love in Buenos Aires
Jason Wilson: Buenos Aires - A Cultural History
The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Cuba
Andrei Codrescu: Ay, Cuba! A Socio-Erotic Journey
Travelers' Tales Cuba - True Stories
David Mcfadden: An Innocent in Cuba
Tom Miller: Trading with the Enemy - A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
Richard Schweid: Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba
Stephen Smith: Cuba - The Land of Miracles - A Journey Through Modern Cuba
Cubanisimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature
The Reader's Companion to Cuba
Florence
E. M Forster: A Room with a View
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Italian Journe y- 1786-1788
Michael Rips: Pasquale's Nose - Idle Days in an Italian Town
Italy - A Traveler's Literary Companion
Travelers' Tales Tuscany - True Stories
Travelers' Tales Italy - True Stories
Tuscany in Mind - An Anthology
Italy, A Love Story: Women Write About the Italian Experience
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
Ghana
Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Shadow of the Sun
George Packer: The Village of Waiting
Manthia Diawara: In Search of Africa
Kevin K. Gaines: American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
Ekow Eshun: Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
Richard Wright: Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos
John Kuada, Yao Chachah: Ghana. Understanding the People and their Culture
Saidiya Hartman: Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
James T. Campbell: Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
London
Virginia Woolf: The London Scene
George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London
Anna Quindlen: Imagined London
Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island
Grevel Lindop: A Literary Guide to the Lake District
Emilie C Harting: A literary tour guide to England and Scotland
Harold Bloom: Bloom's Literary Guide to London
Madrid
George Orwell: Homage to Catalonia
Spain in Mind: Alice Leccese Powers
Travelers' Tales Spain - True Stories
Madrid: A Cultural and Literary Companion: Elizabeth Nash
Tim Moore: Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
Paris
Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feas
George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology: Adam Gopnik
Paris - True Stories of Life on the Road.
Travelers' Tales Paris - True Stories
France (Traveller's Literary Companion): John Edmondson
Literary Paris: A Guide: Jessica Powell
Julia Child: My Life in France
Helen Constantine (Translator): Paris Tales
Paris, Paris - Journey into the City of Light
Walks In Hemingway's Paris: A Guide To Paris For The Literary Traveler: Noel R. Fitch
Patricia Hampl: A Romantic Education
Claudio Magris: Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
Peter Demetz: Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City
John Banville: Prague Pictures: A Portrait of the City
Hilary James, Jiri Musil, Zdenek Mlcok: Prague, My Love
Richard D. E. Burton: Prague: A Cultural and Literary History
Shanghai
Paul Theroux: Riding the Iron Rooster
Stephen G. Haw: A Traveller's History of China
Edwin Dingle: Across China on Foot- From the Straits to Shanghai
Rob Gifford: China Road- A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Peter Hessler: Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Ma Jian: Red Dust - A Path Through China
Travelers' Tales China - True Stories

