Books that Inspired You to Get into Overlanding

[Uniquely Us Adventures]

Scott Brady’s overland book is now available for preorder if you need a new read.
Here is the Amazon link to it.

https://amzn.to/3XOjOdx

 

[stone123]

Magic books always, thank you for sharing

 

[Citrus #1]

Undaunted Courage. All the James Michener books.

 

[MOAK]

I read Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley as a young boy. I really didn’t understand the book back then, as it was the late 60s and I was 14 or 15 years old. I just finished reading it yesterday and am convinced that along with a few other things in my youth, Travels With Charlie planted yet another seed that later in life caused me to travel, to learn, to experience.

 

[grubworm]

i'm starting to think that Dr Seuss got his inspiration from overlanding...
the book above is obvious, of course, and then think about his other books...the Lorax was on BLM land and wanting to protect it...he was the precursor to what are now called 'park rangers'. Green eggs and ham was about a Dometic fridge going out, the eggs spoiling and turning green, and yet the main character still wanted to go on adventures with them and willing to eat the spoiled eggs anywhere...
Horton hears a who...about camping in the Appalachians and hearing a strange noise outside the tent at 2am...

then of course there was his later works...

 

[MOAK]

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i'm starting to think that Dr Seuss was talking about overlanding the whole time...
the book above is obvious, of course, and then think about his other books...the Lorax was on BLM land and wanting to protect it. Green eggs and ham was about a Dometic fridge going out, the eggs spoiling and turning green, and yet the main character still wanted to go on adventures with them and willing to eat the spoiled eggs anywhere...
Horton hears a who...about camping in the Appalachians and hearing a strange noise outside the tent at 2am...

Way too much time on your hands- get back to work

 

[roots66]

These did it for me.

 

[GoElsewhere]

I didn't saw this one suggested here, but it's definitely one of my favourites along with Jupiter's Travels.

 

[CR-Venturer]

I didn't saw this one suggested here, but it's definitely one of my favourites along with Jupiter's Travels.

Some family friends of ours did the same thing! London to Singapore in their series land rover 2 door with their two sons! They must have been inspired by this book :)

 

[CATCOP]

These did it for me.

Ah, in my collection of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written!

Well, what inspired me to get into overland traveling were a couple cops.
I had a dunebuggy chopped up VW bug, I was out with a girl friend and, well you know what teenagers do out in a car parked in a corn field......the cops busted us, the only way out was to drive cross country crossed the river through the woods and they stopped chasing us.

VW bugs float if you close up the heater vents and mud tires just make a paddlewheel.

The quickest way out of Dodge is a straight line in the other direction......