I'd add "A Fortune-Teller Told Me", by Tiziano Terzani.
Not so much to do with fortune tellers, to be honest, just a Dude who made up an excuse to go to some pretty interesting places, and talk to some interesting people. A very engaging writer, I thought.
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, is a short, but powerful book about life and travel, that feels like it's so much longer, in a good way.
I also had problems, at first, with "Zen and the art of.......".
After finding the right time, and forcing myself through it, I've now read it multiple times.
It's one of those book that doesn't actually seem to say a lot in itself, but sends me off down another rabbit hole, that I'd not even thought of before.
Another one, that is nothing to do with travel or motorcycles, but it kind of makes me want to travel, just in the grasp the moment, you only have one life kind of a way, is "As a man thinketh" by James Allen. Another thin book, short book, that feels like an epic, and a multiple reader for me.
Big thumbs up for Joshua Slocum too. If you liked that, try "Ocean Crossing Wayfarer", by Frank and Margret Dye. Not quite the epic of Slocums tale, but a similar spirit of adventure, and gets the travel/adventure juices flowing.
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