National Geographic Traveler's "Ultimate Travel Library"

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Books are added to the source list regularly. Feel free to add those books to this list! (But please add newly-represented countries to the list below.)

National Geographic Traveler "asked dozens of travelers…to name the books that have most enriched their sense of place and best informed their peregrinations. To their picks, we’ve added our own to offer here our ultimate library of travel books … novels and narrative nonfiction and classic photography books."

Each region has several "General" books listed, then books about specific countries.

  • Africa: Botswana, The Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, & South Africa
  • Asia: Afghanistan, Armenia, Borneo, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, incl. Tibet, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, The Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet & Vietnam
  • Australia & the Pacific: Australia, Bali, Borneo, East Timor, French Polynesia, Micronesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands & Tuvalu
  • The Caribbean: Antigua, Bermuda & Haiti
  • Central & South America: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay & Venezuela
  • Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Rep., Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Turkey, & Ukraine
  • The Middle East: Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank, & Yemen
  • North America: Canada, Mexico, USA (General), USA East, USA Central, USA West
  • Polar Regions: Antarctica, & Greenland
  • Western Europe & the Mediterranean: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, & UK

Note: Some books are listed in more than one region: Shopping for Buddhas (Hong Kong/Nepal), Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice (General Central and South America/Brazil), The Beauty of History (Estonia/Latvia), Between the Woods and the Water (Hungary/Romania), The Sun Also Rises (France/Spain). Also, there are books about Tibet listed under both China and Tibet.

See also Around the World in 80 Books: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/8646.

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  1. 151.
    In a Sunburned Country
    by Bill Bryson

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  2. 152.
    In Tasmania: A House at the End of the World
    by Nicholas Shakespeare

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  3. 154.
    One for the Road: Revised Edition
    by Tony Horwitz

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  4. 155.
    Sean & David's Long Drive
    by Sean Condon

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  5. 156.
    The Songlines
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  6. 159.
    A House in Bali
    by Colin McPhee

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  7. 160.
    Crossing: A Story of East Timor
    by Luis Cardoso

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  8. 161.
    Breadfruit
    by Celestine Hitiura Vaite

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  10. 163.
    The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
    by J. Maarten Troost

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  11. 164.
    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme

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  12. 165.
    Lonely Planet Kiwi Tracks: A New Zealand Journey
    by Andrew Stevenson

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  13. 167.
    Straying from the Flock: Travels in New Zealand
    by Alexander Elder

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  15. 169.
    Where Masks Still Dance: New Guinea
    by Meg Taylor

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  16. 170.
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    Solomon Time: An Unlikely Quest in the South Pacific
    by Will Randall

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  17. 171.
    Time & Tide: The Islands of Tuvalu
    by Peter Bennetts

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  18. 172.
    Don't Stop the Carnival: A Novel
    by Herman Wouk

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  19. 173.
    An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude
    by Ann Vanderhoof

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  21. 175.
    A Small Place
    by Jamaica Kincaid

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  23. 177.
    Krik? Krak!
    by Edwidge Danticat

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  24. 178.
    Andes
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

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  25. 179.
    Bluestocking in Patagonia
    by Anne Whitehead

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  26. 180.
    In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  27. 181.
    The Motorcycle Diaries : A Latin American Journey
    by Ernesto Che Guevara

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  28. 182.
    Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
    by Mary Morris

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  29. 183.
    The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
    by Paul Theroux

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  30. 184.
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    Road Fever : A High-Speed Travelogue
    by Tim Cahill

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  31. 187.
    Borges: Collected Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  32. 188.
    The Whispering Land
    by Gerald Durrell

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  33. 189.
    Beka Lamb (Caribbean Writers Series)
    by Zee Edgell

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  34. 192.
    At Play in the Fields of the Lord
    by Peter Matthiessen

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  35. 193.
    Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel)
    by Peter Fleming

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  36. 194.
    Fordlandia.
    by Eduardo Sguiglia

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  37. 195.
    Rio de Janeiro: Carnival Under Fire
    by Ray Castro

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  38. 196.
    Samba
    by Alma Guillermoprieto

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  39. 197.
    By Night in Chile
    by Roberto Bolano

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  40. 198.
    My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
    by Isabel Allende

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  41. 200.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

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