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Book tips for your next trip

Book tips for your next tripThere is no better travel companion than a book. If waiting for a flight boarding, or if sitting on a beach hammock in a late afternoon: reading fits to any traveler’s situation. And as we physically venture into new territories and horizontes, novels, poems, essays provide us with new ideas, plots, points of view. It is as if one trip feeds the other, inspiring and stimulating a deeper experience both inside and outside ourselves.

Fan of the letters, the Amstel House prepared a #1 Book tips for your next trip. Take a look at our first recommendations and bon voyage!

The Odyssey, Homer
An Ancient Greek Journey

A story of adventure, overcoming and fantasy. The major epic poem from Homer will lead you through an incredible journey. The plot takes place 10 years after the legendary War of Troy. It follows Ulysses, King of Ithaca, still trying to get back home. Between monstrous creature and courteous men, the fury of the sea and the delights of the land, our hero story tells us a bit about our own. 

Just Kids, Patti Smith
True story of a cool couple in a late 60s NY

The beginning of everything. An autobiographical testimonial of the adventures of punk singer and poet Patti Smith. Just Kids narrates the first years of the artist and her dearest friend, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, in the revolutionary NY of the late 60s. In the difficulties and delights of those youth years the pair of friends dreamed and experienced together a creative and avant-garde Manhattan full of interesting characters. Photos, notes and stories are witnesses of the artistic blooming of these two troubled and ingenious minds.

Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino
Fantastic short stories from a brilliant story teller

28 tales about love and loneliness; life’s small little things and the mysterious veracity beneath them. Calvino, one of the most delightful contemporary authors, invites us to travel between reality and illusions, jumping from one short story to the next. Guided by this unique view, we learn with great warmness a new perspective on life.