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The Thomas Cook Travel Book Award

The Travel Book Award was founded by The Thomas Cook Group in 1980, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the art of literary travel writing, and to inspire in the reader the wish to travel.

(found at: http://www.thetravelbookaward.com/)
1. Tracks
by Robyn Davidson
  
2. Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
by Jonathan Raban
  
3.
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 The Sinbad Voyage (Thorndike Large Print Popular Series)
by Timothy Severin
  
4. From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
by Vikram Seth
  
5.
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 To the Frontier: A Journey to the Khyber Pass
by Geoffrey Moorhouse
  
6. So Far from God: A Novel
by Ana Castillo
  
7.
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 Between the Woods and the Water
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
  
8.
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 Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
by Colin Thubron
  
9. Riding the Iron Rooster
by Paul Theroux
  
10.
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 Our Grandmothers' Drums: A Portrait of Rural African Life & Culture
by Mark Hudson
  
11.
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 In Search of Conrad  
12. Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
by Jonathan Raban
  
13.
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 A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India
by Norman Lewis
  
14. The Heart of the World
by Nik Cohn
  
15. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
by William Dalrymple
  
16. In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific After Robert Louis Stevenson
by Gavin Bell
  
17.
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 Frontiers of heaven: A journey beyond the Great Wall
by Stanley Stewart
  
18. Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe
by Nicholas Crane
  
19. Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land
by Tim MacKintosh-Smith
  
20.
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 The Spirit-Wrestlers  
21. An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (Bestselling Backlist)
by Jason Elliot
  
22. In The Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History
by Stanley Stewart
  
23. Red Dust: A Path Through China
by Ma Jian
  
24. Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions
by Jenny Diski
  
25. Ghost Riders
by Richard Grant
  
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