Nancy Pearl and Marybeth Bond talk books about travel

Reshelving books
The Rosalie E. Wahl Library in Lake Elmo, Minn., on October 27, 2011.
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Books transport us to new places, inspire us to embark on new adventures, empower us to take risks and enrich our knowledge or experience.

What book inspired your adventure or what book did you read as a child that made you want to explore some far off land? What book could you not put down because it fully transported you to a new land?

Nancy Pearl, Director of the Washington Center for the Book, and travel expert Marybeth Bond of gutsytraveler.com joined Kerri.

"News of a Kidnapping," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Captain Corelli's Mandolin," Louis De Bernieres
"Birds Without Wings," by Louis De Berniers
"Borges and the Eternal Orangutans," by Luis Fernando Verissimo
"State of Wonder," by Ann Patchett
"The Lost City," of Z by David Grann
"River of Doubt," by Candice Millard
"A Moveable Feast," by Ernest Hemingway
"The Oresteia," (plays) by Aeschylus
"The Source," by James Michener
"The Raj Quartet," by Paul Scott
"The Poisonwood Bible," by Barbara Kingsolver
"Midnight's Children," by Salman Rushdie
"Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
"Prodigal Summer," by Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral," by Barbara Kingsolver
"Adventures in Africa," by Gianni Cilati
"Growth of the Soil," by Knut Hamson
"Green Phoenix," by William Allen
"Don't Look Back," by Karen Fossum
"The Lady and the Monk," by Pico Iyer
"In the Garden of Beasts," by Erik Larson
"Venice" series, by Donna Lea Simpson
"Two Years in the French West Indies," by Lafcadio Hearn
"The Sheltering Sky," by Paul Bowles
"A Primate's Memoir," by Robert Sapolsky
"Dark Star Safari," by Paul Theroux
"Maid of Fairbourne Hall," by Julie Klaussen
"Children of the Souls," by Jeanne MacKenzie
The works of Georgette Heyer
"Throne of the Crescent Moon," by Saladin Ahmed
"Wild Coast," by John Gimlette
"Betsy-Tacy Books," by Maud Hart Lovelace

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