Before leaving on a trip, it is important to plan: what to pack in your suitcase, how to make sure you have a good flight, which car to rent once you get there, find out about the culture of the country you are travelling in, and how to fight boredom. Even when travelling, you may get bored for a few hours on long trips, for example, or you may simply feel like being alone for a few moments. Villanovo has created a selection of travel books that will literally take you on a journey of incredible adventure, which may inspire you for your next trip.
Mike Horn, the extreme traveller
At 53, Mike Horn is an adventurer of the world. Of Swiss and South African origin, this explorer has already made journeys in extreme conditions, such as in 1999 when he circumnavigated the world by following the equator line without any motorised means of transport. Even more spectacularly, he was the first man to traverse Antarctica alone and again without a motor in 2017. Earlier, he spent 6 months solo across South America. If these stories make you dream of wilderness travel, you'll be delighted to read the books published by Mark Horn where he recounts his travels in great detail. The explorer has written 8 books, the first of which came out in 2001 "Latitude Zero" where he recounts his crossing of the world following the line of the equator. His most recent book dates from 2018 and is entitled "Antarctica, the dream of a lifetime", which will give you ideas for your next trip.
This book tells the true story of Christopher Mccandless, an American explorer with a different way of life, born in 1968 in California and died in August 1992 in Alaska on the Stampede Trail. It was this book that inspired the famous film "Into the wild", which retraces the journey of the explorer who died for his passion: the discovery of the wild world. Chris was a student with a smile on his face and a bright future, but he didn't like this perspective on life. He then chose to isolate himself, alone in the Alaskan wilderness, influenced by his readings of Tolstoy. This book is a must-read if you want to discover the touching story of a young man who preferred nature to the human race.
This adventurous French man has lived a dozen lives if not more in just 64 years. Patrick flees the law studies imposed on him by his father and goes to Guyana where he becomes a gold digger. Patrick returns to Toulouse, his hometown, only to plan his future expedition to Africa, to the Congo where he is on the verge of death. Following this, the adventures follow one after the other: he walks down the Nile, climbs Everest, and travels in the Amazon. In 1980, he joined the Afghan guerrillas, was the first to circumnavigate the world by microlight, participated in the rescue of boat people on the Isle of Lights in the China Sea and much more. If you want to dream while reading Patrick Franceschi's adventures, you will have the choice between his thirty books and his twenty or so reports. For an extraordinary trip like Patrick, dare to have an adventure in Sri Lanka.
