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Natalie Dent – Your Independent Travel Agent Based in Edinburgh

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Recommended Reading,
   For a Richer Travel Experience

Books About Cruising

Set out across oceans, rivers and remote seas in the company of sailors, explorers, passengers and fictional travellers. These books capture the drama of the voyage itself, from great ocean liners and solo circumnavigations to expedition ships and leisurely river journeys.

Recommended Reading

Sailing Alone Around the World – Joshua Slocum (global circumnavigation)
The Kon-Tiki Expedition – Thor Heyerdahl (the Pacific)
The Wager – David Grann (Cape Horn and the Pacific)
The Only Way to Cross – John Maxtone-Graham (the great ocean liners)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace (Caribbean cruising)
The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware (Norwegian cruising)
Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie (Egyptian river cruising)
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne (global travel by rail and sea)

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