Episode 039 - Non-Fiction Travel

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

Pack your bags, because it’s time for our episode about non-fiction Travel books! We talk about haunted libraries, North Korea, Komodo dragons, and lightning farms. Plus: Technical difficulties!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Books We Read (or tried to)

• Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
• Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer, Ella Morton, and Dylan Thuras (and the website!)
• The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack
• Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
• White Sands by Geoff Dyer
• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
• Eerie America: Travel Guide of the Macabre by Eric R. Vernor and Kevin Eads
• Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries by Mark Leslie
• My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth by Wendy E. Simmons
• Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
• • Also try out Delisle’s other books Burma Chronicles and Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
• Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations by Olivier Le Carrer
• Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham
• America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek

Links, Articles, and Things

• PHX Zine Fest! October 22nd! We’ll be there. Come say “Hi”.
• Palmyra Atoll - the only incorporated part of the USA that’s not a state (and for an uninhabited island, this is a surprisingly long and interesting Wikipedia article)
• Next Goal Wins (documentary)
• Fa’afafine
• LibGuide on Haunted Libraries
• Aokigahara/Suicide Forest

Questions

• What sort of travel books do you like to read?

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 7th, when we’ll be discussing recent books we’ve read that weren't for the podcast!

Then come back on Tuesday, November 21st, when we’ll be talking about Dystopian Fiction!