#literary trips

[canajunfinances]

10 of the best road trips to take … by audiobook

There are audiobooks aplenty for an actual road trip, but what about when we’re stuck at home? From Kerouac to Dervla Murphy, hit the highway with these epic journeys

[buffleheadcabin]

Ice, fire and feuds: on the trail of Iceland's sagas

The tales of heroes and feuding families in Iceland’s founding chronicles inspire this countrywide walking, hitchhiking and camping trip

[interstitious]

My voyage through a world of language in just one word: snow

Missing the wild regions where I have worked, I took a linguistic trip from Asia to the Andes, via Russia and Finland, instead

[orontes]

Race shapes travel: backpacking as a black woman

“So I did something I had never done before, but now do regularly: I pulled out a map, looked at the countries surrounding Ghana – Togo’s western neighbour – and almost randomly picked a place to go.

And went.”

...Lifegoals.

[weigarofolocanada]

10 of the best novels set in Italy – that will take you there

Elena Ferrante’s Naples, Umberto Eco’s medieval mysteries, EM Forster’s Tuscany … Italy comes alive through these great books

[nilnews4]

10 of the best novels to transport you to France

10 of the best novels to transport you to France

I’ve written about France for The Guardian for greater than a decade and have been visiting for longer: since my days as a teenage au pair and later a language pupil. I adore it primarily for its meals and wine, but in addition for its combative perspective to politics, its love of excellent dwelling, elegant cities and number of land- and seascapes. We are able to nonetheless go to it by the…

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[ladyniniane]

Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir … the woman who found the New World 500 years before Columbus

In our new series on lesser-known adventurers, we shine a light on the Icelandic explorer who reached America long before big Chris

“Gudrid was as well-travelled as her nickname suggests, visiting Norway, Greenland and, later in life, making a pilgrimage to Rome. What makes her truly exceptional, though, is that she sailed to North America in a longship, beating Christopher Columbus to the New World by almost 500 years. According to the accounts recorded in the Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, Gudrid lived in America (known to the Vikings as “Vinland”) for three years. Her son Snorri was the first European to be born there.”

[brucegreen5821]

The sweet air of the Cévennes: a British writer on life in the rural heart of France

As the Cévennes national park celebrates its 50th anniversary, Adam Thorpe reflects on how the “intricate hills” of the Massif Central protect its wildlife – and way of life