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Welcome to this week’s edition of Fresh Milk! This week is dedicated to those times in life when you desperately need to get ‘outta town, but you just can’t. Whether funds are tight, you’re out of vacation days, or if there’s a, you know, global pandemic going on, sometimes the only choice is to escape to an exotic destination by way of the written word. Below is a booklist that should cover just about every travel itch for when you can only travel in your mind. If you have a recommendation for a book that transports you somewhere else, leave it in the comments!

Speaking of being transported elsewhere… on Sunday, Beth will be hosting a co-live cook-a-long with McKenna of LaPeetch (aka Julia Child’s former summer home in the south of France)! Tune into the Beth Kirby Instagram on Sunday, April 12, at 6pm GMT / 12pm EST to watch them both cook live from their respective French kitchens!

P.S. Want to travel somewhere in your mind but not up for reading a whole book? Head over to read the recent guest post about traveling the world with the five senses!

A Booklist for When You Need to Travel Somewhere in Your Mind

Global

• A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines – Anthony Bourdain
• Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
• Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road – Kate Harris
• The Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner
• A Year in the World – Frances Mayes
• A Moveable Feast – edited by Don George

Brazil

• The Lost City of Z – David Grann

Chile

• Over the Edge of the World – Laurence Bergreen
• Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin

Peru

• Turn Right at Machu Picchu – Mark Adams

Argentina

• The Motorcycle Diaries – Che Guevara

Denmark

• The Year of Living Danishly – Helen Russell

Norway

• Boy – Roald Dahl

Finland

• The Summer Book – Tove Jansson

Scotland

• Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry – Rosalie K. Fry
• Outlander Series – Diana Gabaldon

Italy

• Call Me By Your Name – André Aciman
• Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
• Four Seasons in Rome – Anthony Doerr
• Italian Days – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• Rome and a Villa – Eleanor Clark
• Venice – Jan Morris

France

• A Year in Provence – Peter Mayle
• My Life in France – Julia Child
• A Room with a View – E.M. Forster
• The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
• All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
• A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
• Adventures on the Wine Route – Kermit Lynch

Spain

• The Pilgrimage – Paulo Coehlo
• The Alchemist – Paulo Coehlo

Canada | Alaska

• White Fang & The Call of the Wild – Jack London
• Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer

United States of America

• On the Road – Jack Kerouac
• Wild – Cheryl Strayed
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America – John Steinbeck

Tibet

• Seven Years in Tibet – Heinrich Harrer

Nepal

• Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer

Africa

• A Long Walk to Water – Linda Sue Park
• A House in Fez: Building A Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco – Suzanna Clarke
• Out of Africa – Karen Blixen
• The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

Australia

• In A Sunburned Country – Bill Bryson

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