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Books like Into the Wild
Loved Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer? 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
Two unfit friends attempt the Appalachian Trail; very funny, with real love for wild places.
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Notes from a Small Island
An American's affectionate, exasperated farewell tour of Britain; warm comic travel writing.
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Edith Wharton abroad
Edith Wharton's seven works of travel have been called "brilliantly written and permanently interesting." For the first time, excerpts from each of these works have been made available to the general
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With Chatwin
Susannah Clapp was Chatwin's first editor, and she describes in detail her work with him on In Patagonia, a book that changed the idea of what travel writing could be. Her account skillfully describes
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Sir Vidia's shadow
"One year before he published his first book, Paul Theroux met V.S. Naipaul-Vidia, as he was known. For thirty years both men remained in close touch, even when continents separated them. Sir Vidia's
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In the forests of the night
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 Seduction of the Mediterranean
Through an examination of forty figures in European culture, The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing a
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Letters from Rifka
Daunting tale of a Jewish girl's journey during Anti-Semitic Germany.
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Neither here nor there
Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later.Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously accl
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Fresh air fiend
"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