The 5 Best Travel Books of the World

“Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller”

― Ibn Battuta

When you travel to a certain place, you get to see a lot of things. Sometimes these are the significant ones and sometimes you have to delve a little deeper into the details to find the ecstasy. But no matter what, travelling for me has always been a great experience and for so many of you around the globe. One could easily find numerous travel experiences scribbled onto the sheets of paper and bonded together to form travel books.

Be it about delighting the gazing sun rays on an outlying beach or adjusting to the hustle and bustle in a train while travelling to the mountains, there are lots of experiences that we could find and read in travel books by authors around the world. In this post, I would like to make you familiar with the best 5 travel books of the world and their writers.

Have a look:

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

As a young boy travels from Spain to Egypt, he encounters interesting individuals, realizes his inner thoughts and get to know the real meaning of love and life. Once you will start reading this book, you will discover that it’s more and more inspiring as you get along the flow.

Alain de Botton- The Art of Travel

A thought-provoking read that digs a little deeper on what excites us to travel around the world. You will get to know the eagerness of getting to a new place, living there and coming back home in Botton’s words.  This book should be on your must to read list as it will enlighten the traveler inside you and can simply be a life changing read for you. .

Patrick Smith - Cockpit Confidential

Who else would be a better traveler than a pilot himself! For those who are a bit anxious about travelling in flights or want to know the secrets of what all happens when you go above the clouds, this book is a perfect pick. You will get to know what a particular movement of a plane means or from where that specific smell you have experienced during the journey comes from. Patrick Smith makes you better understand how a plane actually works and eases most of your flying fears.

Ed Stafford - Walking the Amazon: 860 Days. One Step at a Time.

Walking across the Amazon Jungle from Peru to Brazil, this guy is the first person to make such an adventurous journey. This is a brilliant story that describes his experience about his struggle to make it happen. Diligence, Steadfastness and resoluteness are the words that best describe this man and his journey. You will get to know how it is to be sleeping in the lap of nature, starving when there’s no food, and several other instances.

Cheryl Strayed - Wild

Bored up from your life? Need a fresh start? Read this real life story of Cheryl Strayed who shares her journey to the Pacific Crest. Reading along the flow, this book describes how Cheryl dealt with the loss of her mother, break-up of her marriage and drug addiction. On her way to this journey, she experiences a deep sense of belonging, generosity and happiness.