Category: Books
The Best Books About Quitting Your Job to Travel
Books open a window into how another person sees the world. For travelers, we strive to see the world in new ways everyday– and...
The Best TV Shows About Quitting Your Job to Travel
If you’re sitting around watching TV all day, you’re not out seeing the world. Let’s face it though, every traveler knows...
The Best Movies About Finding Happiness Through Travel
Abandon the Cube finds the top movies about the search for happiness.
Book Review: Border Run
For the past two years Lauren has been running a small book club in Beijing called Book Smugglers. From time to time publishers send books...
Call for Submissions –Best Cube Abandoning Films and Books
We recently watched “Running the Sahara” a documentary about three dudes who literally ran from west to east across the Sahara. After...
Book Reviews: Travel Literature on the Road
On the road last year I read several travel books. Below are a few reviews of some of the amazing adventure tales I’ve enjoyed...
Book Reviews: History on the Road
Traveling is a great way to learn. Every new city visited is a deeper insight into the region’s past and why it developed as it did....
Book Review: Vagabonding, by Rolf Potts
If you have ever entertained the idea of long-term travel, or ‘Vagabonding’ as Rolf Potts terms it, then this book is an...
Book Review: Rising / Falling – Always Hoping: A Journey to a Part of Asia, by Craig Chamberlain
This is the only book written about the Mongol Rally. As many of you know, we are participating in this 10,000 mile adventure across Europe...
Book Review: Lost on Planet China: One man’s attempt to understand the world’s most mystifying nation, by Maarten Troost
If you have ever been to China, then Lost on Planet China will be full of inside jokes only you and other China travelers will understand....
Book Review: Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer, by Chuck Thompson
Chuck Thompson is an infamous name in the travel industry. He has been a long-time critic of how Americans perceive the rest of the world,...
Book Review: The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 miles, 2 guys, 1 globe, no airplanes, by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran
Steve and Vali made a deal with each other. The first one to circumnavigate the globe by land would win a bottle of the most expensive...
Book Review: The Geography of Bliss, by Eric Weiner
If you are interested in social psychology and how the conceptual understanding of happiness varies between cultures, then The Geography of...
IMAGINE: A Vagabond Story, Book Review
Grant Lingel weaves a fascinating and modern coming-of-age tale about an American boy from New York fresh out of college who finds himself...
