Peak Performance Recommended Books: Travel

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Neither Here or There
by Bill Bryson
 
Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is Neither Here Nor There, an affectionate and riotously funny pilgrimage from the frozen wastes of Scandinavia to the chaotic tumult of Istanbul, with stops along the way in Europe's most diverting and historic locales.

 
Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
 
Before his return to the U.S. after a 20-year residence in England, journalist Bryson embarked on a farewell tour (traveling only on public transportation and hiking whenever possible) of his adopted homeland. His witty and detailed observations of life in a variety of towns and villages will delight Anglophiles.