Check it Out: Virtual Road Trip

Submitted by B. Wood on

In a past column, I wrote about the doorways into reading, one of which is setting. Some people read for a specific setting - such as any book that takes place in Ireland - whereas others look for books with vivid descriptions of places that make you wish you were there. And then there are fictional or fantasy settings of places that only exist in your imagination. Well-written settings can take you on an imagination vacation, even if a real-life road trip is not in your immediate future. Let’s take a whirlwind world tour, with a list of novels, books, and memoirs where the setting is integral to the story:

Europe

India

Far East

Africa

Australia

South America