5 Travel Books That Will Change Your Life

One thought has haunted me for a long time. This is it. Sometimes, in order to find answers to your questions, you need to leave your home.. Not everyone likes this phrase, because “houses and walls heal” is the conventional wisdom.

But what if the world was created to know itself through its new cities and countries? What if we don’t have a single home? What if the world is our home, and the answers to our questions lie in different parts of the world? I love this idea, and these books are proof of it.





1. Desert Flower by Varies Dirie



Be raped at four years old and circumcised at six. The last straw for twelve-year-old Varies was the prospect of marrying a sixty-year-old man. Walking across the desert, first to my sister in the city of Magadisho, and then with my uncle straight to London. The city where she will become one of the highest paid models and star in a film about James Bond. The true story of the model and UN Goodwill Ambassador for Combating the Consequences of Female Circumcision, Varies Dirie, who, using her personal example, showed what the phrase “take every opportunity” really means (the film “Desert Flower” was shot).



2. "White Maasai" by Corinna Hofmann



Falling in love with a black Maasai warrior while traveling across Africa with your boyfriend? Swiss by birth, Corinne, and could not imagine what will turn out for her this trip. She fell in love, got married, had a daughter. But it never became one of the inhabitants of the African tribe. Home is not always the country where your loved one lives.





A beautiful true story about what we are willing to do for others and for ourselves (White Maasai)



3. "The Origin of All Things" Elizabeth Gilbert



At the age of fifty, Alma Whitaker, the daughter of a botanist who has never previously left her native Philadelphia, decides to go on a risky journey to Tahiti. Only the road took her more than eight months.





But it was there, surrounded by a completely different people, that she was able to find answers to her questions about the evolution and origin of all things.



4. The Incredible Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce



At the opposite end of the country in one of the hospices there is a woman named Queenie Hennessy. Harold Fry, alone and useless in his hometown, goes to visit her. But it wasn't just a trip to a woman across the country. It became a real journey to the present, and a rethinking of life.





Sometimes, to find yourself, you just have to go on the road and carefully study the lessons that he will teach you.



5. "Wild" Cheryl Straid



Another real story. Death of a mother, separation from her husband, drugs, sudden pregnancy. Cheryl knew that she had drawn herself into a vicious circle, from which she needed to get out. This is only possible through radical methods. Resolved: a single walking journey of 1770 km.

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To accept your mistakes and start a really new life (the film of the same name is made). published



Author: Tamriko Sholi



P.S. And remember, just changing our consumption – together we change the world!

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