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World Hum's Top 30 Travel Books of All Time

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

(found at: http://www.worldhum.com/books/item/world_hums_top_30_travel_books_20060610/)
1. Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library)
by Wilfred Thesiger
  
2. The Road to Oxiana
by Robert Byron
  
3. The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
by Paul Theroux
  
4. The Soccer War
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
  
5. No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
by Redmond O'Hanlon
  
6. North of South: An African Journey (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Shiva Naipaul
  
7. Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
by Norman Lewis
  
8. Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
by Pico Iyer
  
9. The Innocents Abroad (Dover Value Editions)
by Mark Twain
  
10. In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
  
11. The Snow Leopard (Classic, Nature, Penguin)
by Peter Matthiessen
  
12. The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
  
13. Travels with Charley
by John Steinbeck
  
14.
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 Riding to the Tigris
by Freya Stark
  
15. Europe, Europe: Forays into a Continent
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  
16. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
by William Dalrymple
  
17. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
by Eric Newby
  
18. All the Wrong Places (Classics of Reportage S.)
by James Fenton
  
19. Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
by Jonathan Raban
  
20. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)
by Peter Hessler
  
21. Road Fever
by Tim Cahill
  
22.
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 When the Going Was Good.
by Evelyn Waugh
  
23.
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 Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
by Colin Thubron
  
24. Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
by Jan Morris
  
25. A Time of Gifts (New York Review Books Classics)
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
  
26. Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
by Tony Horwitz
  
27. Size of the World
by Jeff Greenwald
  
28. Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
by Jeffrey Tayler
  
29. Venture to the Interior (The Vanguard Library, 24)
by Laurens van der Post
  
30. A Turn in the South (Vintage International)
by V.S. Naipaul
  
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Created by reenum on Sep 20, 2006.