{"id":13359,"date":"2020-07-03T15:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T15:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/?p=13359"},"modified":"2020-07-06T06:40:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:40:49","slug":"overcome-travel-blues-during-covid-19-pandemic-with-these-travel-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/overcome-travel-blues-during-covid-19-pandemic-with-these-travel-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcome Travel Blues during COVID-19 Pandemic with these Travel Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can\u2019t wait to travel once all of this is over. As the world is gradually adopting the new changes to tackle the pandemic, there is something that can bring travel to our homes. Those pages full of words and wisdom can open up places that haven\u2019t been a part of our bucket list.<\/p>\n<p>While we wait for that day to stretch our wings and take flight to distant places, pick a cosy corner of your home, tug yourself with one of these books and dive into the world of journeys.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"csRow\">\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 10px; float: left; width: 42.1%;\">\n<p><strong>In Patagonia \u2013 Bruce Chatwin <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fine account of the author\u2019s journey through Patagonia with remarkable anecdotes and historical details that will transport you to this land in the southern end of South America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 4.17%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 20px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 43.7%;\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13395 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/In-Patagonia-1-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Travel Book In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/In-Patagonia-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/In-Patagonia-1.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; float: none; width: 0px; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csRow\">\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 43.8%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13393 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Dont-let-go-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Don\u2019t Let\u2019s go to the Dogs Tonight  by Alexandra Fuller\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Dont-let-go-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Dont-let-go.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 4.17%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 52%;\">\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t Let\u2019s go to the Dogs Tonight \u2013 Alexandra Fuller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Get transported to 1970s conflict-ridden Rhodesia as you trace the author\u2019s growing up years amidst the Rhodesian Civil War. The book is melancholic and poignant yet compassionate, filled with humour, even when there is little to celebrate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; float: none; width: 0px; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csRow\">\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 20px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 52.1%;\">\n<p><strong>Walk in the Woods \u2013 Bill Bryson <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the author\u2019s endearing account of his hiking adventure of the Appalachian Trail. Imagine him braving through mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, rattlesnakes and disease-bearing tics. By the end of the book, you will end up feeling as if you were there, a part of his journey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 4.17%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 42.1%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13396 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/walk-in-woods-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/walk-in-woods-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/walk-in-woods.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 1.56%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; float: none; width: 0px; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csRow\">\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 43.8%;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13397 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/devila-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"In Ethiopia with a Mule by Dervla Murphy\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/devila-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/devila.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 4.17%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 52%;\">\n<p><strong>In Ethiopia with a Mule \u2013 Dervla Murphy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On her trek to Ethiopia, the author describes the country as \u201c\u2026.some improbable land of violence and piety, courtesy and treachery, barrenness and fertility.\u201d This sets the tone for this book that was supposed to be about beauty, solitude and mystery, but in return, the author encounters rough terrain, exhaustion, illness and the disorder of the Ethiopians&#8217; domestic affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; float: none; width: 0px; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csRow\">\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 20px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 42.1%;\">\n<p><strong>Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road \u2013 Kate Harris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow the author\u2019s ambitious mission to bicycle across Asia, tracing the ancient Silk Road. The retelling of her journey is full of science, history, and literature as she traces her Marco Polo\u2019s route \u2013 past Constantinople, Trabzon, Erzurum, Bukhara, Samarkand to Badakhshan, Kashgar, Khotan and Cathay. It is an enchanting travelogue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 4.17%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 43.7%;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13398 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lands-of-lost-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lands-of-lost-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lands-of-lost.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; float: none; width: 0px; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csRow\">\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 43.8%;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13399 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dark-star-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"dDark Star Safari by Paul Theroux\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dark-star-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assets-guidebook.isango.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dark-star.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 4.17%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 52%;\">\n<p><strong>Dark Star Safari \u2013 Paul Theroux<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A travel book list is incomplete without Paul Theroux and this book takes you from Cairo to Cape Town, across bush and desert, rivers and lakes \u2013 offering some of the most beautiful (and most dangerous!) landscapes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Here are our top picks of the books you can read during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tell us in the comments if there is something you would like to suggest. 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