Worldbuilder's Book Club 2023 - hosted by quartzen

Travel, Trade, and Migration
Choose a book about travel, trade, and migration and related topics that bring different peoples and cultures into contact.
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The Land Beyond: A Thousand Miles on Foot through the Heart of the Middle East by Leon McCarron

The Land Beyond: A Thousand Miles on Foot through the Heart of the Middle East

Leon McCarron

224 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction travel adventurous informative slow-paced
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Jose Antonio Vargas

256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

352 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history nature politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Peter Frankopan

672 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Can't Get There from Here: New Zealand passenger rail since 1920 by Sam van der Weerden, Andre Brett

Can't Get There from Here: New Zealand passenger rail since 1920

Sam van der Weerden, Andre Brett

384 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative medium-paced
The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition by Donald Shoup

The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition

Donald Shoup

808 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction business design economics sociology informative slow-paced
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

8 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime adventurous dark informative medium-paced
Titanic and Other Ships by Charles Herbert Lightoller

Titanic and Other Ships

Charles Herbert Lightoller

276 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Christina Thompson

11 hours, 40 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Antarctica: A History in 100 Objects by Daniella McCahey, Jean de Pomereu

Antarctica: A History in 100 Objects

Daniella McCahey, Jean de Pomereu

224 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction