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Best of Travel Narratives (Rivers)

Rank Title Author Added

1

Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi

by Jonathan Raban

563 members

10 reviews

4

Member: John_Vaughan

2

by Edward Abbey

376 members

4

Member: John_Vaughan

3

Mississippi Solo: A River Quest

170 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan

4

Lewis & Clark; Journals of the Expedition (Heritage Press Deluxe Set)

by Meriwether Lewis

125 members

4

Member: John_Vaughan

5

Thames: Sacred River

by Peter Ackroyd

869 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: John_Vaughan

6

River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River

by Bill Belleville

54 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: John_Vaughan

7

The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James

127 members

1 review

4

Member: John_Vaughan

8

by William Least Heat-Moon

1,029 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: John_Vaughan

9

Shantyboat: A River Way of Life

by Harlan Hubbard

65 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: John_Vaughan

10

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

by Candice Millard

3,537 members

141 reviews

4.2

Member: John_Vaughan

11

The Road to Oxiana

by Robert Byron

1,232 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan

12

The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time

by Simon Winchester

740 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: John_Vaughan

13

by Clarence Jonk

13 members

2

Member: John_Vaughan

14

The River Queen

75 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: John_Vaughan

15

Life on the Mississippi

4,632 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan

16

Sailing Through China

by Paul Theroux

100 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: John_Vaughan

17

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

by Henry David Thoreau

641 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan

18

Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

27 members

3

Member: John_Vaughan

19

Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-1984

by Paul Theroux

454 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: John_Vaughan

20

by Alan Moorehead

903 members

12 reviews

4

Member: John_Vaughan

21

by Alan Moorehead

1,253 members

16 reviews

4

Member: John_Vaughan

22

Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast

by Mike Tidwell

237 members

12 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: John_Vaughan

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