14 books that are called on the road

The most affordable way to travel is books. Essays on the Canadian, who walked around the whole world, the adventures of a “wild” tourist in the Middle East, will call someone a keen desire to go on the road immediately, and someone will serve as an excellent entertainment for the evening.

“There was Rome here. Modern walks in the ancient city »Victor Sonkin

The book of philologist and translator Viktor Sonkin is not a typical guide. You do not look at her on the run or sitting on an airplane. But Rome is not such a city to endure the “familiar” appeal in the form of a listing of dry facts and a formal description of routes. To understand it properly, you need time. Or … such a satellite as Victor Sonkin. His book allows the reader for a short time to become a historian, archaeologist, linguist and see a living story, the fate of commanders, kings, poets and ordinary inhabitants behind a kaleidoscope of majestic structures. Sonkin’s book is deprived of both academic boring and tanned intonations of advertising booklets. Due to which it is endowed with something else-the title of laureate of the Enlightener-2013 Award. (AST, Corpus, 2015)

"Word on the way" Peter Vile

The book of a brilliant essayist, journalist Peter Weil appeared a year after his death and includes his essays of different years about traveling around the world, culinary notes, fragments of interviews and chapters from the incomplete book of Italian Picture about great masters of Italian painting. Erudite, keen and gambling traveler, witty and benevolent interlocutor, Vile traveled, stood (“domesticated”) and described many beautiful places, and you just have to open the book, how you feel a keen desire to quickly lay your suitcases and hit the road. In essence, the direction is not so important, because wherever you get, you will ultimately meet with an unknown yourself, Vile claims: “The journey is not at all a search for the unknown. Traveling is a way of self -knowledge. After all, coming to different places, you look not only at them, but also see yourself ". (Corpus, 2011)

“Especially the pawnshop. Images of Italy XXI »Arkady Ippolitov

Exactly a hundred years after the publication of the famous “images of Italy” Pavel Muratov (this book is still included in the list of compulsory reading for everyone who is interested in world culture) art critic and historian Arkady Ippolitov wrote a kind of continuation (replica from the 21st century). Ippolitov’s images are not inferior in the brightness of the descriptions of his predecessor (“Any baroque palace is a meat carcass that luxuriously fell apart before your eyes”). Any corner of Lombardy causes many literary, historical, cinematic reminiscences and associations in the author’s memory. Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravagio, Tarkovsky and Tolstoy, Pazolini and Fellini, Crusades and Creon fruits in mustard – the author’s impressions and curious stories mixed into a delightful cocktail, allowing him to travel around Italy (and far beyond its borders), without leaving their house. (Hummingbird, ABC-Atticus, 2012)

"Thames. Holy River »Peter Akraid

Peter Akraid, a writer, historian, culturologist, wrote several biographies of the Great Londoners (Dickens, Shakespeare, Choser, Turner and others), and also undertook a large -scale study of the past and present of the city in the book “London. Biography "(Publishing House Olga Morozova, 2007), which became a bestseller. But Akraid did not thoroughly quenched his interest in the English life and drew attention to the Thames. A journey through this sacred river for the British, from sources to mouth, turns into a large -scale narrative about the history and culture of England. Thames as a plot unites many information of different things (here is the economy, geography, religion, and mythology). But besides, this is a reflection on the river as such, a symbol of eternity and variability, a river that unites space and time and equally speaks of the past and present. (Olga Morozova Publishing House, 2009)

"Walks in Istanbul in search of Constantinople" Sergey Ivanov

To see the medieval Constantinople in the modern Istanbul, to breathe life into it and spend tourists on it-this task was by the power of a brilliant storyteller and visitor scientist Sergey Ivanov. The author draws the daily life of the inhabitants of the city, recalls the events of terrible and joyful, captured in countless legends, lives and "walks" of travelers. And this virtual “walk” wakes up the imagination no less than a real trip to Istanbul, although, of course, it does not cancel it at all. (AST, Corpus, 2016)

“Paris from the inside. How to tame a wayward city »Stefan Clark

British journalist Stefan Clark, in love with Paris, cobra pills is ready to give readers a lot of valuable advice: how to behave in the subway, on the street, in cafes and restaurants, hotels and rented apartments, how best to contact a passerby to get a friendly answer that it is worth tasteing from French cuisine in which cinemas to watch the premieres and which museums you do not want to stand in the queue in the queue in the queue. In a small book, Clark manages to tell about everything: about the history of the city, about architecture, about rare corners, where the tourist’s leg does not step, about Parisian sex and housing prices, about the kings of the fashion world and where you need to buy clothes … (Ripol Classic, 2013)

"My Venice" Andrei Biljo

Andrei Biljo – author of Petrovich, caricaturer and "employee of the small psychiatric hospital". A little is known that Bronze Petrovich is in one of the Venetian gardens, and the restaurateur Andrei Biljo – the Venetian restaurateur himself. Probably because the author of the book does not feel like a tourist in Venice, he did not write a guide. “Venice for tourists” is an absurd city, and an “employee of a small psychiatric hospital” captures all this absurdity, first asking the children’s question “where is the pigeon droppings?", And then explaining what" ordinary Venetian flood "is. Each chapter is called one of the “points of the Venetian catering”, and the author briefly introduces us to the place, with the kitchen and the owner, and even attaches Biglietto di Visita-the hallmark of the restaurant. Bilzho addresses the book not random and hasty tourists, but those who come to the city to live – albeit for a short time. (UFO, 2013)

"New York. Art-navigator »Morgan Falconer

Having opened this colorful guide, you clearly understand that the trip to New York should be made at least in order to see the richest collections of masterpieces of world art, lovingly stored in famous New York museums. And the art navigator must definitely take with you. Firstly, thanks to a convenient format, he will not burden you in hiking, and secondly, using his cards and instructions, you will not get out of the way and find exactly what you are interested in, and, finally, in addition to valuable information, the art navigator will supply you with a brief overview of the world history of art. If you do not plan to fly through the ocean in the near future, you can make a virtual journey: by admiring the excellent illustrations in the book, visit the website of the museums and the New York galleys (their addresses are conveniently collected together), which have the main pearls of the collections. (Sinbad, 2014)

"The Middle East: along and down" Semyon Pavlyuk

Continental Türkiye, Syria, Iran – routes that may seem alarming and frightening for a free traveler with a backpack. However, the professional geographer Semen Pavlyuk through his own experience demonstrates that fear of an unfamiliar culture is compensated by unique impressions – both from real attractions and from paintings by the daily life of the Middle East. You can spend the night there on the roof of a cheap hotel, and the driver will not only tell about life, but also invite home to a cup of tea. From Istanbul through Ankara, and throughout Iran (kum, Isfahan, shiraz): this exciting “travele” is a temptation for adventurers and the pleasure of empathy for homebody. (Kitoni, 2009).

“Wanderer. Way prose »Alexander Genis

Putant notes of Alexander Genis are not just perfection of the art of Table-Talk’s, cooing about elegant wedding elephants in Delhi, Spanish “Time Machine”-Corrida, exotic fishing on the distant Canadian lake, Japanese subway and Hudson parrotes. No. This is a philosophy of travel, travel as a state of mind, soul, body. The genis invariably accompanies all the noticed scenes and details, extending the scope of the just described place to the scale of the universe. And in the end, everything again comes down to a conversation about a person and about himself. Because the journey is “the experience of self -knowledge: physical movement with spiritual consequences. Having built himself in the landscape, the author changes it forever ". The essay of Alexander Genis is a set of color postcards with landscapes forever changed by him. (UFO, 2011)

"Russian Literary Manor" Vladimir Novikov

There was Pushkin’s childhood and the youth of Turgenev. There was realized his unexpected architectural abilities of Baratynsky. They wrote, walked, fishing and met with friends the best Russian writers. Philologist and writer Vladimir Novikov prepared a kind of guide to 26 “literary” estates: from Pushkinsky Mikhailovsky and Lermontov Tarkhan to Gumilyovsky Slepnev and Nabokovsky Rozhdestvenino. In fact, we have before us the “literary tour” – from the golden age to the silver – with many textbook facts and non -stress legends, with love stories and household jokes. These laconic sketches will be especially interesting for lovers of "weekend travels". After all, the estates of Russian writers are still the best routes of such trips. (Lomonosov, 2012)

"We traveled a lot …" Elena Lavrentieva

One hundred years ago, our compatriots went to rest in other countries with no one’s enthusiasm than we are today. Especially often artists, artists, writers traveled. Their diaries and letters, unique photographs, postcards and advertising avenues fill this album with the air of the Swiss Alps, Asian bazaars and French Riviera. And they are full of curious household observations regarding fashion, service, kitchens and morals – both local residents and other visiting tourists: “impressive in appearance and funny – Americans. I really liked them, but why these gentlemen sat in the cabin so indecent, lifting their legs above the head? Have they never had governesses?"(Eterna, 2011).

“In search of yourself. The story of a man who has walked around the earth on foot "Jean Belivo

“Run, Forest, Run,” the children of their 45-year-old father, who planned to be able to promote-not just America or Canada, the whole globe, admonished with some irony. Whether he ran away from problems with work or planned to radically change his life – but Canadian Jean Belivo did it! He ran out of Montreal in August 2000 and returned … 11 years later. True, at some point he switched to walking, but this does not change the essence: a person alone, with a three-wheeled cart and a meager amount in the account, went around all the continents, and then very excitingly described his journey in the book. And you know, today, when every traveler can sit on the plane and return home in a few hours, where safe, satisfying, comfortable, the choice of Canadian Odyssey is particularly respectful. (Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2016)

"Stockholm. Fun journey "Alexander Balashov

Children’s Game-Wheel in the capital of Sweden will come in handy on a real trip, but in addition, it will help to make a virtual trip to Stockholm. If, for example, ride with a dad on a bicycle along the city embankment, and then eat a bun with cinnamon and send a runic message to his mother (the cipher is attached), then you will feel like a real little gossip. By the way, Swedish children love to set up experiments as in the Museum of Tome Experiments. You can organize a small volcano, bake ginger cookies, gather on a viking campaign and find the royal palace: there are many tasks in the exciting guide to Stockholm. And parents will make a trip route along it. (Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2015)

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