Collection Spotlight: Books to Take You Places

Winter Break is approaching, and soon our Duke community will spread out across the country and the globe, heading home for the holidays or partaking in some much-needed travel.

Even if you’re just planning on curling up with a good book at home (admittedly, one of our favorite activities), the Libraries have collected works to add some adventure into any kind of vacation. The newest display, located next to the Perkins Service Desk, features books on all things travel-related. The display combines traditional travel narratives with fiction, including journeys and time travel.

Here’s the complete list of “Books to Take You Places,” with links to where you can find them in our catalog. Read them now, or just add them to your Goodreads list for later. Happy reading!

Stephen Miller, Walking New York: Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole

Linh Dinh, Postcards from the End of America

Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

Andrew X. Pham, Catfish and Mandala: a two-wheeled voyage through the landscape and memory of Vietnam

Bruce Chatwin, What am I doing here?

Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Shadow of the Sun

Leila Marouane, The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris

Rajaa Alsanea, Girls of Riyadh

Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Jamil Ahmad, The Wandering Falcon

Kunzang Choden, The Circle of Karma

Gyoir Eliasson, Stone Tree

Aglaja Veteranyi, Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta

Nnedi Okorator, Who Fears Death

Octavia Butler, Fledgling

G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen

Octavia Butler, Kindred

Ann Morgan, The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe

Deborah Harkness, Time’s Convert

Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

Jo Walton, The Just City

Connie Willis, Blackout

Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods and the Water

Tete-Michel Kpomassie, An African in Greenland

Andrea Barrett, The Voyage of the Narwhal

Helene Wecker, Golem and the Jinni

Amitav Ghosh, In An Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale

Peter Hessler, Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farmer to Factory

Michael Ondaatje, Cat’s Table

Amjad Nasser, Petra: The Concealed Rose

Sattareh Farman-Farmania, Daughter of Persia: A Woman’s Journey from Her Father’s Harem through the Islamic Revolution

William Atkins, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in the Desert Places

Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day

Joshua Foer, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders

Cheryl Yanek, Inspired journeys: Travel Writers in Search of the Muse

Suzy Hansen, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

Peter Hessler, Oracle Bones

John F. Ross, The Promise of the Grand Canyon

Constance Fenimore Woolson: Constance Fenimore Woolson: Selected Stories and Travel Narratives

Jan Morris, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus

Julia Blackburn, The Emperor’s Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena

Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo

Ibn Batūta, The Travels of Ibn Batūta

Adam Valen Levinson, The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East

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