Interactive Literary Road Trip Map
I adore road trips, but I have read very few books in which the characters go on a road trip. In fact, of all the books mentioned in this obsessively detailed map of American Literature’s Most Epic Road Trips from Atlas Obscura, I have read NONE of them. NONE…
Here is the list of books:
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
- The Cruise of the Rolling Junk by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes by Ted Conover
- Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
- Cross Country by Robert Sullivan
- The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
- Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Roughing It by Mark Twain
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
- Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
If you are unable to travel this year, take a trip in your mind with one of these books. I’m sure there is one here that will give you the feeling of being somewhere else.
Via Engadget – This interactive map crams in American literature’s greatest road trips