Gulliver's travels didn't fit into the title, but should be in there somewhere. Reading revolutionary books gets more dangerous with age. At twenty, I could have read Wigan Pier and after a couple of pints, so what........ but at 50 something, Orwell is dangerous. As a child, I remember Gulliver's Travels was in the children's section, but Swift was no children's author. But then Struwelpeter wasn't much nicer, and the brothers Grimm were.... grim.
So belatedly I have come to three remarkable works, and read them as part of a journey. Rural Rides, Wigan Pier and Gulliver's Travels make the perfect travel companions for a journey that was abo
