Who better to recommend a good travel book than the author of Holidays in Hell, a self-described guide to the "world's worst places"? Now that PJ O'Rourke's follow-up, Holidays in Heck, is on shelves, O'Rourke reveals his six favorite travel books in the Daily Beast:
- Domestic Manners of the Americans, Fanny Trollope: After living "two miserable years" in Cincinnati, Anthony Trollope's mother wrote "the great anti–de Tocqueville account of America." With complaints of pigs running the streets and general filthiness, "she sounds like my mother on the subject of foreign travel."