National Geographic Traveler's "Around the World in 80 Books"

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"To compile our list of classic travel books, [National Geographic Traveler] asked dozens of travelers (writers, photographers, explorers, editors, and others) to name the books that have most enriched their senses of place and best informed their peregrinations. Here are their choices."

Alphabetical by title.

The list of the entire National Geographic Traveler Ultimate Travel Library is here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/38967.

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    Amsterdam
    by Geert Mak

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    Andes
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

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  3. 3.
    Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library)
    by Wilfred Thesiger

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  4. 4.
    Arctic Dreams
    by Barry Lopez

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    Australian Colors: Images of the Outback
    by Bill Bachman

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    Bad Land: An American Romance
    by Jonathan Raban

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  7. 7.
    Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
    by Robert D. Kaplan

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    Blue Highways: A Journey into America
    by William Least Heat-Moon

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  9. 9.
    Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel)
    by Peter Fleming

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    Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
    by Isabel Fonseca

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    Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
    by Robert Michael Pyle

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    City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
    by William Dalrymple

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  13. 14.
    Colossus of Maroussi
    by Henry Miller

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  14. 15.
    Coming into the Country
    by John McPhee

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  15. 17.
    Cuba (National Geographic)
    by Elizabeth Newhouse

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  16. 19.
    Desert Solitaire
    by Edward Abbey

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  18. 22.
    The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
    by Edmund White

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  19. 23.
    A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
    by Tiziano Terzani

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  20. 25.
    Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire
    by Tui De Roy

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    Heidi's Alp: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe
    by Christina Hardyment

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  22. 28.
    Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  23. 29.
    Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
    by Alison Wearing

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  24. 30.
    Hong Kong
    by Jan Morris

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  25. 31.
    A House in Bali
    by Colin McPhee

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  27. 33.
    In a Sunburned Country
    by Bill Bryson

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  28. 34.
    In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  29. 35.
    In Siberia
    by Colin Thubron

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  30. 36.
    In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon
    by Redmond O'Hanlon

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    In Tuscany
    by Frances Mayes

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  32. 38.
    Iron and Silk
    by Mark Salzman

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  33. 39.
    Last Places: A Journey in the North
    by Lawrence Millman

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  34. 40.
    London: The Biography
    by Peter Ackroyd

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  35. 41.
    Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa
    by Ann Jones

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  36. 43.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    by Bill Bryson

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    A Moveable Feast
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  39. 46.
    Nomads of Niger
    by Carol Beckwith

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  40. 47.
    Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
    by Mary Morris

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  41. 49.
    Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
    by Jonathan Raban

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

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