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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  1. 1.
    Amsterdam
    by Geert Mak

  2. 2.
    Andes
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

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

  4. 4.
    Arctic Dreams
    by Barry Lopez

  5. 5.
    Australian Colors: Images of the Outback
    by Bill Bachman

  6. 6.
    Bad Land: An American Romance
    by Jonathan Raban

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

  8. 8.
    Blue Highways: A Journey into America
    by William Least Heat-Moon

  9. 9.
    Brazilian Adventure
    by Peter Fleming

  10. 10.
    Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
    by Isabel Fonseca

  11. 11.
    Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
    by Robert Michael Pyle

  12. 12.
    City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
    by William Dalrymple

  13. 14.
    Colossus of Maroussi
    by Henry Miller

  14. 15.
    Coming into the Country
    by John McPhee

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

  16. 18.
    Danube (Panther S.)
    by Claudio Magris

  17. 19.
    Desert Solitaire
    by Edward Abbey

  18. 20.

  19. 22.
    The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
    by Edmund White

  20. 23.
    A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
    by Tiziano Terzani

  21. 25.
    Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire
    by Tui De Roy

  22. 27.
    Heidi's Alp: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe
    by Christina Hardyment

  23. 28.
    Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

  24. 29.
    Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
    by Alison Wearing

  25. 30.
    Hong Kong
    by Jan Morris

  26. 31.
    A House in Bali
    by Colin McPhee

  27. 32.

  28. 33.
    In a Sunburned Country
    by Bill Bryson

  29. 34.
    In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
    by Bruce Chatwin

  30. 35.
    In Siberia
    by Colin Thubron

  31. 36.
    In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon
    by Redmond O'Hanlon

  32. 37.
    In Tuscany
    by Frances Mayes

  33. 38.
    Iron and Silk
    by Mark Salzman

  34. 39.
    Last Places: A Journey in the North
    by Lawrence Millman

  35. 40.
    London: The Biography
    by Peter Ackroyd

  36. 41.
    Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa
    by Ann Jones

  37. 43.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    by Bill Bryson

  38. 44.

  39. 45.
    A Moveable Feast
    by Ernest Hemingway

  40. 46.
    Nomads of Niger
    by Carol Beckwith

  41. 47.
    Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
    by Mary Morris

  42. 49.
    Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
    by Jonathan Raban

  43. 50.
    The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
    by Paul Theroux

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Travel around the world — 1 year ago

Wow, Around the World in 80 Books!




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