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Travel writing at its best is as much about the interior journey as the exterior one. These are the books that take you somewhere real and bring something essential back.

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Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson · 1995 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer · 1996 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer · 1997 Recommended See details →
Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert · 2006 Recommended See details →
The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux · 1975 Recommended See details →
A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor · 1977 Recommended See details →
Abroad Paul Fussell · 1980 Recommended See details →
An account of the Pelew Islands George Keate · 1788 Recommended See details →
Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road Susan L. Roberson · 2012 Recommended See details →
Arabian sands Wilfred Thesiger · 1959 Recommended See details →
Blood River Tim Butcher · 2007 Recommended See details →
Don't Get Too Comfortable David Rakoff · 2005 Recommended See details →
Edith Wharton abroad Edith Wharton · 1995 Recommended See details →
Flâneuse Lauren Elkin · 2016 Recommended See details →
Forms in early modern utopia Nina Chordas · 2010 Recommended See details →
Fresh air fiend Paul Theroux · 2000 Recommended See details →
Impressions of Southern Italy Sharon Ouditt · 2013 Recommended See details →
In Morocco Edith Wharton · 1920 Recommended See details →
In the forests of the night Amelia Atwater-Rhodes · 1999 Recommended See details →
Letters from Rifka Karen Hesse · 1992 Recommended See details →
Neither here nor there Bill Bryson · 1991 Recommended See details →
One man's wilderness Richard Proenneke · 1973 Recommended See details →
Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens · 1846 Recommended See details →
Satori in Paris Jack Kerouac · 1966 Recommended See details →
Sir Vidia's shadow Paul Theroux · 1998 Recommended See details →
Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 Recommended See details →
The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler · 1985 Recommended See details →
The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing Debbie Lisle · 2006 Recommended See details →
The Marsh Arabs Wilfred Thesiger · 1964 Recommended See details →
The Seduction of the Mediterranean Robert Aldrich · 1993 Recommended See details →
The cruise of the Betsey Hugh Miller · 1858 Recommended See details →
The fourth part of the world Toby Lester · 2009 Recommended See details →
The lost trappers David H. Coyner · 1847 Recommended See details →
The sick bag song Nick Cave · 2016 Recommended See details →
The tao of travel Paul Theroux · 2011 Recommended See details →
The travel writer's handbook Louise Purwin Zobel · 1980 Recommended See details →
Thrilling Cities Ian Fleming · 1963 Recommended See details →
Travel writing Peter Ferry · 2008 Recommended See details →
Travel, Discovery, Transformation Gabriel R. Ricci · 2014 Recommended See details →
Travel, Tourism and Identity Gabriel R. Ricci · 2015 Recommended See details →
Unspeakable Awfulness Kenneth D. Rose · 2013 Recommended See details →
With Chatwin Susannah Clapp · 1997 Recommended See details →

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