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Your favourite travel book

Hi all.

We recently published our first travel book (while travelling). We decided to start with an eBook (which is free to publish and you dont need middle men) and see how it goes. After a partially successful crowdfunding campaign, we raised some good money to print it and have it available as a paperback.

We have more than 3 months to add (or remove) stuff from the printed copy and here I am to ask for your contribution.

In the paperback, we want to add a section with useful readings & publications (we have online resources only and smartphone apps) that will add some value to our book as well as provide the future reader with more valuable resources and of course spread the word of other worth reading travel resources through my resource. I think it is called collective thinking!

Our target audience is people who are getting prepared for the epic trip (which will preferably last for a long time), people who need inspiration through real life stories of others who quit everything, sold everything and started living in the road & people who look for travel resources and real life practical examples to get ideas & tips etc.

So, ideally, the list of books that I want to include in my Useful Resources Section must be about preparation (no matter the vehicle since we analyze all modes of transportation in our book) but travel literature is not excluded!

Needless to say, that the writers must be real travellers-explorers, not digital nomads, corporations, ghost writers and HOW TO guides written from Instagram neo-gurus!

So far, I want to add the books & guides below:

1. Adventure Motorcycling Handbook: A Route & Planning Guide by Chris Scott

2. Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph by Ted Simon

3. Dreaming of Jupiter: In Search of the World--Thirty Years On by Ted Simon

4. Motorcycle Messengers: Tales from the Road by Writers Who Ride by Jeremy Kroeker

5. Through Dust and Darkness: A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East by Jeremy Kroeker

6. Motorcycle Therapy: A Canadian Adventure in Central America by Jeremy Kroeker

7. Overlanders' Handbook: Worldwide Route And Planning Guide (Car, 4Wd, Van, Truck) by Chris Scott

8. Don't Go There. It's Not Safe. You'll Die.: And other more rational advice for overlanding Mexico & Central America by Jared McCaffree , Jessica Mans , Kobus Mans

9. Left Beyond the Horizon: A Land Rover Odyssey by Christopher Many

10. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

11. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

12. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne ,

13. One Life to Ride: A Motorcycle Journey to the High Himalayas by Ajit Harisinghani

14. Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook: Worldwide Cycling Route & Planning Guide by Neil Pike

15. Work Less to Live Your Dreams: A practical guide to saving money and living your dreams by Dan Grec

16.Spark your Dream: A true life Story where Dreams are fullfilled and we are inspired to conquer ours. by Herman & Candelaria Zapp

17. Who Needs a Road: The Story of the Longest and Last Motor Journey Around the World
by Harold Stephens& Albert Podell

18. Η ΧΑΜΕΝΗ ΤΕΧΝΗ ΤΟΥ ΤΑΞΙΔΙΟΥ. ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΤΑΞΙΔΙΩΤΗ ΣΤΟΝ ΤΟΥΡΙΣΤΑ. ΕΝΑΣ ΕΝΑΛΛΑΚΤΙΚΟΣ ΟΔΗΓΟΣ ΑΝΑΖΗΤΗΣΗΣ ΒΑΡΒΑΡΕΣΟΣ ΣΤΕΛΙΟΣ



Which is your favorite book?


Thank you all!




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