AbeBooks: 50 Essential Travel Books

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In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (1917) by Valerian Albanov
No Picnic on Mount Kenya (1946) by Felice Benuzzi
South from Granada (1957) by Gerald Brenan
In a Sunburned Country (2000) by Bill Bryson
The Yage Letters (1963) by William S. Burroughs
A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina (1964) by Richard F. Burton
Wrong About Japan (2004) by Peter Carey
In Patagonia (1977) by Bruce Chatwin
Rome and a Villa (1952) by Eleanor Clark
Alone: The Man Who Braved the Vast Pacific and Won (1992) by Gerard D'Aboville
Skating to Antarctica: A Journey to the End of the World (1997) by Jenny Diski
Lost on a Mountain in Maine (1939) by Donn Fendler
News from Tartary (1936) by Peter Fleming
Chasing the Monsoon (1990) by Alexander Frater
Great Plains (1989) by Ian Frazier
Journey Without Maps (1936) by Graham Greene
From the Cape to Cairo (1900) by Ewart Scott Grogan
The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia (1994) by Brian Hall
The Royal Road to Romance (1925) by Richard Halliburton
Seven Years in Tibet (1952) by Heinrich Harrer
Blue Highways: A Journey into America (1982) by William Least Heat-Moon
Green Hills of Africa (1935) by Ernest Hemingway
Notes from The Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia (Modern Library Exploration) (1969) by Edward Hoagland
Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East (1989) by Pico Iyer
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) by Samuel Johnson
Sea and Sardinia (1921) by D. H. Lawrence
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands (1950) by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff (2007) by Rosemary Mahoney
The Snow Leopard (1978) by Peter Matthiessen
The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930) by W. Somerset Maugham
Coming into the Country (1977) by John McPhee
The Pine Barrens (1968) by John McPhee
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945) by Henry Miller
The Fearful Void (1974) by Geoffrey Moorhouse
The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country (1982) by Jan Morris
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) by Eric Newby
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon (1988) by Redmond O'Hanlon
The Oregon Trail (1849) by Francis Parkman
The Spanish Temper (1928) by V. S. Pritchett
Survive the Savage Sea (1973) by Dougal Robertson
Iron and Silk (1988) by Mark Salzman
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels (1934) by Freya Stark
Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962) by John Steinbeck
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Places In Between (2004) by Rory Stewart
Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark (2006) by Robert Sullivan
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown (2002) by Paul Theroux
Arabian Sands (1959) by Wilfred Thesiger
Along the Ganges (2003) by Ilija Trojanow
Roughing It (1872) by Mark Twain
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia (1941) by Rebecca West

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