Lists of Bests: World Hum's Top 30 Travel Books of All Time http://www.listsofbests.com/list/14895 A list of the 30 best travel books of all time, compiled by World Hum. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:13:50 GMT en-us 0 50 30 0 0 Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/932183 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/932183"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140095144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilfred Thesiger</div> The Road to Oxiana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/656621 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/656621"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195030672.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63838185_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Byron</div> The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51290 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51290"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014024980X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Theroux</div> The Soccer War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/194462 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/194462"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679738053.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ryszard Kapuscinski</div> No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18823 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18823"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679737324.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Redmond O'Hanlon</div> North of South: An African Journey (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/630396 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/630396"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140188266.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shiva Naipaul</div> Golden Earth: Travels in Burma http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167523 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167523"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0907871380.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083888105_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Lewis</div> Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71346 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71346"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722165.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pico Iyer</div> The Innocents Abroad (Dover Value Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52026 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/048642832X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> In a Sunburned Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22637 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22637"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767903862.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> The Snow Leopard (Classic, Nature, Penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140255087.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132599565_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Matthiessen</div> The Songlines http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2588 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2588"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140094296.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672752_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce Chatwin</div> Travels with Charley http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1983577 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1983577"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/078874478X.01-ABK0V7DLYO5NU._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Riding to the Tigris http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2084762 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Freya Stark</div> Europe, Europe: Forays into a Continent http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504870 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504870"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679731598.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464898_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hans Magnus Enzensberger</div> City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3563 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3563"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142001007.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Dalrymple</div> A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/368782 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/368782"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0864426046.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132955997_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Newby</div> All the Wrong Places (Classics of Reportage S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1033557 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1033557"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1862077835.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Fenton</div> Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66024 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66024"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037570101X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Raban</div> River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1009566 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1009566"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060855029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Hessler</div> Road Fever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/414236 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/414236"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394758374.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Cahill</div> When the Going Was Good. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/625818 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/560297 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Thubron</div> Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5606 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5606"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306811804.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jan Morris</div> A Time of Gifts (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/269558 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/269558"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590171659.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Leigh Fermor</div> Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14028 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14028"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452267455.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tony Horwitz</div> Size of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/719628 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/719628"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/034540551X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeff Greenwald</div> Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/292489 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/292489"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609808265.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Tayler</div> Venture to the Interior (The Vanguard Library, 24) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2242914 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2242914"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BQKVJI.01-A1A5861B2RBYD1._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurens van der Post</div> A Turn in the South (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52180 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52180"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679724885.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114064415_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V.S. Naipaul</div>