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

  2. 2.
    The Road to Oxiana
    by Robert Byron

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

  4. 4.
    The Soccer War
    by Ryszard Kapuscinski

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

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

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

  8. 10.
    In a Sunburned Country
    by Bill Bryson

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

  10. 12.
    The Songlines
    by Bruce Chatwin

  11. 13.
    Travels with Charley
    by John Steinbeck

  12. 14.
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    Riding to the Tigris
    by Freya Stark

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

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

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

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

  17. 20.
    River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)
    by Peter Hessler

  18. 21.
    Road Fever
    by Tim Cahill

  19. 22.
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    When the Going Was Good.
    by Evelyn Waugh

  20. 23.
    Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
    by Colin Thubron

  21. 24.
    Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere
    by Jan Morris

  22. 26.
    Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
    by Tony Horwitz

  23. 27.
    The Size of the World
    by Jeff Greenwald

  24. 28.

  25. 29.
    Venture to the Interior (The Vanguard Library, 24)
    by Laurens van der Post

  26. 30.
    A Turn in the South
    by V.S. Naipaul

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Created by reenum on Sep 20, 2006.
 

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travel books — 1 year ago

Great list!




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