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Best of Travel Narratives (Rivers)
Rank
Title
Author
Added
1
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
by
Jonathan Raban
597 members
11 reviews
3.9
Score 4
Added 2012-01-30, 11:21 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
2
Down the River
by
Edward Abbey
422 members
4
Score 3.36
Added 2012-01-30, 11:21 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
3
Mississippi Solo: A River Quest
by
Eddy Harris
184 members
3 reviews
3.9
Score 3.04
Added 2012-01-30, 11:21 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
4
Lewis & Clark; Journals of the Expedition (Heritage Press Deluxe Set)
by
Meriwether Lewis
133 members
4
Score 2.83
Added 2012-01-30, 11:22 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
5
Thames: Sacred River
by
Peter Ackroyd
961 members
15 reviews
½
3.7
Score 2.68
Added 2012-01-30, 11:24 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
6
River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River
by
Bill Belleville
56 members
2 reviews
3.9
Score 2.56
Added 2012-01-30, 11:26 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
7
The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James
by
Bob Deans
143 members
1 review
4.1
Score 2.46
Added 2012-01-30, 11:26 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
8
River-Horse
by
William Least Heat-Moon
1,126 members
11 reviews
½
3.6
Score 2.38
Added 2012-01-30, 11:27 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
9
Shantyboat: A River Way of Life
by
Harlan Hubbard
73 members
1 review
½
4.5
Score 2.31
Added 2012-01-30, 11:28 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
10
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by
Candice Millard
4,115 members
151 reviews
4.2
Score 2.25
Added 2012-01-30, 11:29 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
11
The Road to Oxiana
by
Robert Byron
1,373 members
15 reviews
3.9
Score 2.2
Added 2012-01-30, 11:29 AM
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
804 members
16 reviews
3.8
Score 2.15
Added 2012-01-30, 11:29 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
13
River Journey
by
Clarence Jonk
14 members
2
Score 2.11
Added 2012-01-30, 11:30 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
14
The River Queen: A Memoir
by
Mary Morris
77 members
4 reviews
½
3.7
Score 2.07
Added 2012-01-30, 11:30 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
15
Life on the Mississippi
by
Mark Twain
5,204 members
58 reviews
3.9
Score 2.03
Added 2012-01-30, 11:32 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
16
Sailing Through China
by
Paul Theroux
112 members
4 reviews
½
3.4
Score 2
Added 2012-01-30, 11:33 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
17
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
by
Henry David Thoreau
722 members
10 reviews
3.8
Score 1.97
Added 2012-01-30, 11:33 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
18
Afloat on the Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo (Shawnee Classics)
by
Reuben Gold Thwaites
31 members
1 review
3
Score 1.94
Added 2012-01-30, 11:34 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
19
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-1984
by
Paul Theroux
500 members
5 reviews
½
3.5
Score 1.92
Added 2012-01-30, 11:37 AM
Member
John_Vaughan
20
The Blue Nile
by
Alan Moorehead
972 members
13 reviews
4
Score 1.89
Added 2012-02-06, 04:16 PM
Member
John_Vaughan
21
The White Nile
by
Alan Moorehead
1,373 members
17 reviews
4
Score 1.87
Added 2012-02-06, 04:16 PM
Member
John_Vaughan
22
Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
by
Mike Tidwell
256 members
12 reviews
½
4.4
Score 1.85
Added 2012-05-16, 02:19 PM
Member
John_Vaughan
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