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Bad Trips

These books detail travel experiences that were less than ideal...
or, to say the least, interesting!
These are NOT your Mobil Travel Guides...

::FICTION::
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by: Douglas Adams
The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe by: Douglas Adams
Bodily Harm by: Margaret Atwood
Peril Under the Palms by: K.K. Beck
Murder on the Orient Express by: Agatha Christie
Rift by: Liza Cody
Robinson Crusoe by: Daniel DeFoe
Deliverance by: James Dickey
Bridget Jones: The End of Reason by: Helen Fielding
A Room With a View by: E.M. Forster
The Beach by: Alex Garland
Bad News Travels Fast by: Gar Anthony Haywood
Princess Charming by: Jane Heller
Maggody in Manhattan by: Joan Hess
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by: Stephen King
Where the Heart Is by: Billie Letts
Paradise News by: David Lodge
Handling Sin by: Michael Malone
Missing Susan by: Sharyn McCrumb
The Body in the Fjord by: Katherine Hall Page
Colony by: Anne River Siddons
Mr. Hobbs' Vacation by: Edward Streeter
The Mosquito Coast by: Paul Thoreaux
Swiss Family Robinson by: Johann David Wyss

::NON-FICTION::
Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need by: Dave Barry (818)
When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to go Home by: Erma Bombeck (818)
A Walk in the Woods by: Bill Bryson (917.404)
In a Sunburned Country by: Bill Bryson (919.4)
Not So Funny When It Happened, ed. by: Tim Cahill (910)
Back from Tuichi by: Yossi Ghinsberg (BIOG)
Into Thin Air by: Jon Krakauer (796.52)
Not Without My Daughter by: Betty Mahmoody (BIOG)
A Year in Provence by: Peter Mayle (944/AUDIOBOOK)
A Fine and Pleasant Misery by: Patrick McManus (799.08)
Blue Highways by: William Least Heat Moon (917.3)
The Boat That Wouldn't Float by: Farley Mowat (797.124)
Holidays in Hell by: P.J. O'Rourke (AUDIOBOOK)
Driving Mr. Albert by: Michael Paterniti (616.07)
Travels with Charley by: John Steinbeck (917.3)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by: David Foster Wallace (814.54)

**Much of this booklist was compiled by the subscribers of the "Fiction_L" mailing list**

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