World Hum's Top 30 Travel Books of All Time

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A list of the 30 best travel books of all time, compiled by World Hum.

  1. 1.
    Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library)
    by Wilfred Thesiger

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  2. 2.
    The Road to Oxiana
    by Robert Byron

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  3. 3.
    The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
    by Paul Theroux

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  4. 4.
    The Soccer War
    by Ryszard Kapuscinski

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  5. 5.
    No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
    by Redmond O'Hanlon

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  6. 7.
    Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
    by Norman Lewis

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  7. 9.
    The Innocents Abroad (Dover Value Editions)
    by Mark Twain

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  8. 10.
    In a Sunburned Country
    by Bill Bryson

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  9. 11.
    The Snow Leopard (Classic, Nature, Penguin)
    by Peter Matthiessen

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  10. 12.
    The Songlines
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  11. 13.
    Travels with Charley
    by John Steinbeck

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    Riding to the Tigris
    by Freya Stark

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  13. 15.
    Europe, Europe: Forays into a Continent
    by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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  14. 16.
    City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
    by William Dalrymple

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  15. 17.
    A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
    by Eric Newby

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  16. 18.
    All the Wrong Places (Classics of Reportage S.)
    by James Fenton

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  17. 19.
    Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
    by Jonathan Raban

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  18. 20.
    River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)
    by Peter Hessler

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  19. 21.
    Road Fever
    by Tim Cahill

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  20. 22.
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    When the Going Was Good.
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  21. 23.
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    Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
    by Colin Thubron

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  22. 24.
    Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
    by Jan Morris

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  23. 25.
    A Time of Gifts (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Patrick Leigh Fermor

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  24. 26.
    Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
    by Tony Horwitz

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  25. 27.
    Size of the World
    by Jeff Greenwald

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  27. 29.
    Venture to the Interior (The Vanguard Library, 24)
    by Laurens van der Post

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  28. 30.
    A Turn in the South (Vintage International)
    by V.S. Naipaul

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Created by reenum on Sep 20, 2006.
 

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