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

"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.

(found at: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler/extras/travellibrary/library12.html)

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1. Amsterdam
by Geert Mak
  
2. Andes
by Mario Vargas Llosa
  
3. Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library)
by Wilfred Thesiger
  
4. Arctic Dreams
by Barry Lopez
  
5. Australian Colors: Images of the Outback
by Bill Bachman
  
6. Bad Land: An American Romance
by Jonathan Raban
  
7. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
by Robert D. Kaplan
  
8. Blue Highways: A Journey into America
by William Least Heat-Moon
  
9. Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel)
by Peter Fleming
  
10. Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca
  
11. Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
by Robert Michael Pyle
  
12. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
by William Dalrymple
  
13. Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia (Adventure Press)
by Roff Smith
  
14. Colossus of Maroussi
by Henry Miller
  
15. Coming into the Country
by John McPhee
  
16. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
  
17. Cuba (National Geographic)
by Elizabeth Newhouse
  
18. Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea (Panther)
by Claudio Magris
  
19. Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
  
20. The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia (A Kolowalu Book)
by P. F. Kluge
  
21. The Eighth Continent: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar
by Peter Tyson
  
22. The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
by Edmund White
  
23. A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
by Tiziano Terzani
  
24. Full Circle: One Man's Journey by Air, Train, Boat and Occasionally Very Sore Feet Around the 50,000 Miles of the Pacific Rim
by Michael Palin
  
25. Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire
by Tui De Roy
  
26. The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)
by Timothy Egan
  
27.
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 Heidi's Alp: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe
by Christina Hardyment
  
28. Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
  
29. Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
by Alison Wearing
  
30. Hong Kong
by Jan Morris
  
31. A House in Bali
by Colin McPhee
  
32. In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
by Amitav Ghosh
  
33. In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
  
34. In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
by Bruce Chatwin
  
35. In Siberia
by Colin Thubron
  
36. In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon
by Redmond O'Hanlon
  
37. In Tuscany
by Frances Mayes
  
38. Iron and Silk
by Mark Salzman
  
39. Last Places: A Journey in the North
by Lawrence Millman
  
40. London: The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd
  
41. Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa
by Ann Jones
  
42. Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
by Gavin Maxwell
  
43. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
by Bill Bryson
  
44. Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
by Eric Hansen
  
45. A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
  
46. Nomads of Niger
by Carol Beckwith
  
47. Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
by Mary Morris
  
48. Off the Rails in Phnom Penh: Into the Dark Heart of Guns, Girls, and Ganja
by Amit Gilboa
  
49. Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
by Jonathan Raban
  
50. The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
by Paul Theroux
  
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