Suggested Readings
(for more about each book, use the links to the left)

The Art of Travel: Alain De Botton

Berlin

Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time of Gifts- On Foot to Constantinople- From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

Michael Gorra: The Bells in Their Silence- Travels through Germany

Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad

James Fenimore Cooper: Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine

Armando: From Berlin

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

Harry A. Franck: Vagabonding Down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, From Panama to Buenos Aires

Jason Wilson: Buenos Aires - A Cultural History

The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Bruce Chatwin: In Patagonia

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

Pico Iyer: Cuba and the Night

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

Mary McCarthy, The Stones of Florence

Tim Park: Italian Neighbors

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 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

London Noir

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

Edmund White: Flaneur

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

Prague
Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time of Gifts- On Foot to Constantinople- From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

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

Simon Winchester: The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time

Paul Theroux: Riding the Iron Rooster

Mark Salzman: Iron and Silk

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

Polly Evans: Fried Eggs with Chopsticks - One Woman's Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own

Peter Hessler: Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present

Ma Jian: Red Dust - A Path Through China

Harriet Sergean: Shanghai

Travelers' Tales China - True Stories