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. 51.
    Out of Africa (Modern Library)
    by Isak Dinesen

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  2. 52.
    The Panama Hat Trail
    by Tom Miller

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  3. 53.
    The Ponds of Kalambayi
    by Mike Tidwell

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  4. 55.
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    Road Fever : A High-Speed Travelogue
    by Tim Cahill

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  5. 57.
    Roughing It (Enriched Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  6. 58.
    Running in the Family
    by Michael Ondaatje

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  7. 59.
    Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
    by William Langewiesche

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  8. 61.
    Seven Years in Tibet
    by Heinrich Harrer

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  9. 62.
    Serengeti : Natural Order on the African Plain
    by Chronicle Books LLC Staff

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  10. 63.
    Slowly Down the Ganges
    by Eric Newby

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  11. 64.
    The Snow Leopard (Classic, Nature, Penguin)
    by Peter Matthiessen

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  12. 65.
    The Songlines
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  13. 66.
    South Southeast
    by Steve McCurry

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  14. 67.
    Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
    by Eric Hansen

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  15. 68.
    Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
    by Sara Wheeler

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  16. 70.
    This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
    by Gretel Ehrlich

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  18. 73.
    Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place
    by Mary lee Settle

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  19. 74.
    Two Towns in Provence
    by M.F.K. Fisher

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  20. 77.
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    Vanishing Breed: Photographs of the Cowboy and the West
    by William Albert Allard

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  21. 78.
    Video Night in Kathmandu
    by Pico Iyer

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  22. 79.
    West with the Night
    by Beryl Markham

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  23. 80.
    Where Masks Still Dance: New Guinea
    by Meg Taylor

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