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Books like Don't Get Too Comfortable

Loved Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from travel, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    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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    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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    The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing

    Debbie Lisle · 2006 · Travel

    To what extent do best-selling travel books, such as those by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Bruce Chatwin and Michael Palin, tell us as much about world politics as newspaper articles, policy documents a

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    Blood River

    Tim Butcher · 2007 · Travel

    The author recounts his audacious and perilous quest through the Congo as he retraced the 1874 expedition of explorer H. M. Stanley to map the Congo River, traveling alone with an assortment of vehicl

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    Travel writing

    Peter Ferry · 2008 · Travel

    A clever, gentle first novel – that comes with a glowing endorsement from Dave Eggers – about a love story and a mystery, about story telling, the blurred line between fact and fiction, and an early m

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    The fourth part of the world

    Toby Lester · 2009 · Travel

    In 1901, Josef Fischer accidentally discovered the Waldseemuller Map of 1507 - the first map to depict the world largely as we know it. This book tells the story of the voyagers and thinkers who creat

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    Fresh air fiend

    Paul Theroux · 2000 · Travel

    "In this collection of essays and articles written over the last fifteen years, Paul Theroux demonstrates how the traveling life and the writing life are intimately connected. Not simply an escape fro

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    Forms in early modern utopia

    Nina Chordas · 2010 · Travel

    "Though much has been written about connections between early modern utopia and nascent European imperialism, Nina Chordas brings a fresh perspective to the topic by exploring it through some of the s

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    In the forests of the night

    Amelia Atwater-Rhodes · 1999 · Travel

    I was born to the name of Rachel Weatere in the year 1684, more than three hundred years ago.The one who changed me named me Risika, and Risika I became, though I never asked what it meant. I continue

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    The tao of travel

    Paul Theroux · 2011 · Travel

    A collection of writings from Paul Theroux's fifty years of travel. Included are writings from other travelers such as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway and many others.

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