Books that Inspired You to Get into Overlanding

I read Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley as a young boy. I really didn’t understand the book back then, as it was the late 60s and I was 14 or 15 years old. I just finished reading it yesterday and am convinced that along with a few other things in my youth, Travels With Charlie planted yet another seed that later in life caused me to travel, to learn, to experience.
 
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i'm starting to think that Dr Seuss got his inspiration from overlanding...
the book above is obvious, of course, and then think about his other books...the Lorax was on BLM land and wanting to protect it...he was the precursor to what are now called 'park rangers'. Green eggs and ham was about a Dometic fridge going out, the eggs spoiling and turning green, and yet the main character still wanted to go on adventures with them and willing to eat the spoiled eggs anywhere...
Horton hears a who...about camping in the Appalachians and hearing a strange noise outside the tent at 2am...

then of course there was his later works...

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i'm starting to think that Dr Seuss was talking about overlanding the whole time...
the book above is obvious, of course, and then think about his other books...the Lorax was on BLM land and wanting to protect it. Green eggs and ham was about a Dometic fridge going out, the eggs spoiling and turning green, and yet the main character still wanted to go on adventures with them and willing to eat the spoiled eggs anywhere...
Horton hears a who...about camping in the Appalachians and hearing a strange noise outside the tent at 2am...
Way too much time on your hands- get back to work
 
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These did it for me.
 

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