From my list on best memoirs when you want to travel the world.
Why am I passionate about this?
In 2019, I spent a year traveling around the world with my husband and two small kids. These days, we still travel whenever we get the chance, soaking up as many cultures, landscapes, and experiences as possible. Wherever we go, we read books set in our destination, usually by local authors, which deepens our connection to the places we visit. But you don’t need a plane ticket for a good book to transport you overseas. Here are a few of my favorite reads guaranteed to immerse you in faraway lands, even as you sit on your favorite couch at home.
Margaret's book list on best memoirs when you want to travel the world
Why did Margaret love this book?
This might be one of the most charming books I’ve ever read. In it, author Durrell recounts the years in the 1930s when his family—a merry band of British oddballs with a widowed mom—moved to the Greek island of Corfu.
As I chuckled through chapter after chapter of mishaps and cultural misunderstandings, I could practically smell the pine trees and Adriatic and found myself longing to travel back in time to visit a rural Greece where traditions were still alive and vibrant.
9 authors picked My Family and Other Animals as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
The inspiration behind ITV's hit family drama, The Durrells.
My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is a twentieth-century classic.
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