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Books like Pictures from Italy

Loved Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from travel, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    A Walk in the Woods

    Bill Bryson · 1998 · Travel

    Two unfit friends attempt the Appalachian Trail; very funny, with real love for wild places.

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    The lost trappers

    David H. Coyner · 1847 · Travel

    David Coyner was born in Virginia in 1807 and was not only an able preacher, and lecturer but was also a successful author and historian. During the four years from 1842 to 1847, which he spent on the

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    The cruise of the Betsey

    Hugh Miller · 1858 · Travel

    Reprint of the 1858 with additional material by Micahel A. Taylor (introduction, maps, bibliography, glossary, notes, etc.).

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    Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia

    George Kennan · 1870 · Travel

    An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Euro

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    An account of the Pelew Islands

    George Keate · 1788 · Travel

    Account of the journey of the Antelope which was shipwrecked off the coast of the Palau Islands; the first extensive contact of Palauans with Westerners; the experiences of the crew on the Palau Islan

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    In Morocco

    Edith Wharton · 1920 · Travel

    American novelist and designer Edith Wharton traveled to Morocco after the end of World War I. Morocco is her account of her time there as the guest of General Hubert Lyautey. Her account praises Lyau

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    Notes from a Small Island

    Bill Bryson · 1995 · Travel

    An American's affectionate, exasperated farewell tour of Britain; warm comic travel writing.

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    Into the Wild

    Jon Krakauer · 1996 · Travel

    A young man walks into the Alaskan wilderness and doesn't come back; a haunting study of an idealist.

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    Into Thin Air

    Jon Krakauer · 1997 · Travel

    A first-hand account of the deadly 1996 Everest disaster; tense, honest and unforgettable.

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    Eat, Pray, Love

    Elizabeth Gilbert · 2006 · Travel

    One woman's year of pleasure, devotion and balance across Italy, India and Bali; a huge, divisive bestseller.

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