Lists of Bests: National Geographic Traveler's "Around the World in 80 Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/8646 "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. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:30:15 GMT en-us 0 50 80 50 0 Amsterdam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/746251 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/746251"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0674003314.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geert Mak</div> Andes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1207824 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1207824"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792264304.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mario Vargas Llosa</div> Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/932183 <div id="position">3</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> Arctic Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9303 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9303"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375727485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Lopez</div> Australian Colors: Images of the Outback http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/230670 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/230670"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0817442359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bachman</div> Bad Land: An American Romance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/168283 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/168283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679759069.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114023136_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Raban</div> Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88518 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88518"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312424930.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert D. Kaplan</div> Blue Highways: A Journey into America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6978 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6978"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316353299.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Least Heat-Moon</div> Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1068802 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1068802"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081016065X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120147901_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Fleming</div> Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38893 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38893"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067973743X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Fonseca</div> Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1307504 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1307504"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618127437.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077735368_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Michael Pyle</div> City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3563 <div id="position">12</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> Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia (Adventure Press) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23637 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23637"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792263650.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1141075364_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roff Smith</div> Colossus of Maroussi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25098 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25098"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811201090.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110482978_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Miller</div> Coming into the Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88730 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88730"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374522871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John McPhee</div> Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18990 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18990"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067975833X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tony Horwitz</div> Cuba (National Geographic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1106028 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1106028"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/848298196X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Newhouse</div> Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea (Panther) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33376 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33376"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1860468233.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claudio Magris</div> Desert Solitaire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972252 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972252"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671695886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Abbey</div> The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia (A Kolowalu Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967309 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967309"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/082481567X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057195578_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P. F. Kluge</div> The Eighth Continent: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1608737 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1608737"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380794659.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438868_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Tyson</div> The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31870 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31870"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582341354.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056523876_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund White</div> A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17049 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17049"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/060980958X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tiziano Terzani</div> Full Circle: One Man's Journey by Air, Train, Boat and Occasionally Very Sore Feet Around the 50,000 Miles of the Pacific Rim http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/115998 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/115998"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312194552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056430505_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Palin</div> Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106217 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/106217"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1894020391.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056536719_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tui De Roy</div> The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1280022 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1280022"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679734856.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Egan</div> Heidi's Alp: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1507708 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christina Hardyment</div> Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311186 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311186"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187379.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200221 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/200221"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312263449.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113577781_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alison Wearing</div> Hong Kong http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1608779 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1608779"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776486.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jan Morris</div> A House in Bali http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1608784 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1608784"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/9625936297.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113641413_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin McPhee</div> In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163632 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163632"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679727833.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amitav Ghosh</div> In a Sunburned Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22637 <div id="position">33</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> In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59521 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59521"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce Chatwin</div> In Siberia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970133 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970133"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/006095373X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Thubron</div> In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18695 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18695"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679727140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Redmond O'Hanlon</div> In Tuscany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167241 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167241"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767905350.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances Mayes</div> Iron and Silk http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11225 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11225"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394755111.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113632211_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Salzman</div> Last Places: A Journey in the North http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/733488 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/733488"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618082484.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077835009_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Millman</div> London: The Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10385 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10385"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385497717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Ackroyd</div> Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9111 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9111"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375705333.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438425_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Jones</div> Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978695 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/978695"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1585742066.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056524658_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gavin Maxwell</div> The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1204 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1204"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060920084.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414471_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/440242 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/440242"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067973855X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Hansen</div> A Moveable Feast http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56512 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56512"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684833638.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121695157_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Nomads of Niger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1608816 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1608816"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0810981254.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056494787_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carol Beckwith</div> Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/846369 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/846369"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312199414.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Morris</div> Off the Rails in Phnom Penh: Into the Dark Heart of Guns, Girls, and Ganja http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1579415 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1579415"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/9748303349.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amit Gilboa</div> Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9013 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9013"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Raban</div> The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11324 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11324"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/039552105X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077682413_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Theroux</div>