The 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time

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How did we come up with our list? We scoured the web and dug up every “best travel books” list we could find, from writers, bloggers and publications like Salon, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Traveler and Transitions Abroad. (Naturally, we consulted our own top 30 list, too). Then we pulled out the books that were cited most often and added a few bestsellers.

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  1. 1.
    A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
    by Norman Lewis
  2. 2.
    A House in Bali
    by Colin McPhee
  3. 3.
    A Moveable Feast
    by Ernest Hemingway
  4. 4.
    A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
    by Eric Newby
  6. 6.
    A Turn in the South
    by V.S. Naipaul
  9. 9.
    Among the Russians
    by Colin Thubron
  10. 10.
    An Area of Darkness
    by V.S. Naipaul
  11. 11.
    Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilfred Thesiger
  12. 12.
    Arctic Dreams
    by Barry Lopez
  13. 13.
    The Art of Travel
    by Alain De Botton
  14. 14.
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    As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
    by Laurie Lee
  15. 15.
    Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
    by Tony Horwitz
  16. 16.
    Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
    by Robert D. Kaplan
  17. 17.
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    Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography, 1928-33
    by Freya Stark
  19. 19.
    Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
    by Lawrence Durrell
  20. 20.
    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Penguin Classics)
    by Rebecca West
  21. 21.
    Black Like Me
    by John Howard Griffin
  22. 22.
    Blue Highways: A Journey into America
    by William Least Heat-Moon
  23. 23.
    Brazilian Adventure
    by Peter Fleming
  25. 25.
    City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
    by William Dalrymple
  26. 26.
    Coasting: A Private Voyage
    by Jonathan Raban
  27. 27.
    Coming into the Country
    by John McPhee
  28. 28.
    Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
    by Paul Theroux
  29. 29.
    Desert Solitaire
    by Edward Abbey
  30. 30.
    Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
    by Rosemary Mahoney
  32. 32.
    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
    by Tom Wolfe
  33. 33.
    Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
    by Alfred Lansing
  34. 34.
  36. 36.
  37. 37.
    Full Circle
    by Michael Palin
  38. 38.
    Full Tilt
    by Dervla Murphy
  39. 39.
    Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
    by Norman Lewis
  40. 40.
    Great Plains
    by Ian Frazier
  41. 41.
    The Great Railway Bazaar
    by Paul Theroux
  43. 43.
    Homage to Catalonia
    by George Orwell
  45. 45.
    In a Sunburned Country
    by Bill Bryson
  46. 46.
    In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
    by Bruce Chatwin
  47. 47.
    In Siberia
    by Colin Thubron
  48. 48.
    In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon
    by Redmond O'Hanlon
  49. 49.
    The Innocents Abroad
    by Mark Twain
  50. 50.
    Into the Wild
    by Jon Krakauer

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Created by K McQuage on Jun 15, 2010.
 

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bartzturkeymom

World Hum List — 1 year ago

Wow! Thanks for posting this list so quickly :)

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