Great Travel Writing
Thirty classics of travel writing, from Victorian explorers to modern walkers: journeys, memoirs and portraits of places to read before you go, or instead of going.
30 books
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JourneyIn Patagonia
Chatwin’s fragmentary, spellbinding account of wandering the far south of South America.
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JourneyA Time of Gifts
The first part of a young man’s walk across Europe from the Hook of Holland towards Constantinople in 1933.
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JourneyThe Great Railway Bazaar
By train from London across Europe and Asia, returning on the Trans-Siberian.
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Steinbeck drives across America with his poodle to rediscover his country.
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JourneyThe Snow Leopard
A trek into the Himalaya of Nepal that becomes a meditation on loss and Buddhism.
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JourneyThe Songlines
A journey through the Australian outback exploring Aboriginal song paths and the urge to wander.
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PlaceNotes from a Small Island
An affectionate farewell tour of Britain before Bryson moved back to America.
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JourneyThe Road to Oxiana
A journey through Persia and Afghanistan in search of Islamic architecture.
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JourneyA Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Two amateurs set off to climb a mountain in Afghanistan, with comic results.
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15Memoir
Istanbul: Memories and the City
Pamuk’s memoir of growing up in Istanbul and the melancholy of its fading grandeur.
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MemoirA Year in Provence
A British couple’s first year in a Provençal farmhouse, told month by month.
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MemoirUnder the Tuscan Sun
Restoring an abandoned villa in Tuscany, with food, gardens and local life.
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
A woman hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail after personal loss.
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ExplorationInto the Wild
The story of Christopher McCandless, who walked alone into the Alaskan wilderness.
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ExplorationThe Worst Journey in the World
A survivor’s account of Scott’s last Antarctic expedition.
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ExplorationTravels in West Africa
A Victorian woman’s adventurous, humorous journeys through West and Central Africa.
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Walking ancient paths, holloways and sea roads across Britain and beyond.
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Roads to Santiago
A Dutch writer’s meandering journeys through Spain towards Santiago de Compostela.
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JourneyThe Rings of Saturn
A walk along the Suffolk coast that opens into history, memory and loss.
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