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Books like The travel writer's handbook

Loved The travel writer's handbook by Louise Purwin Zobel? 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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    Abroad

    Paul Fussell · 1980 · Travel

    A eulogy for the lost art of traveling and an evaluation of the British writers who authored travel books.

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    The Accidental Tourist

    Anne Tyler · 1985 · Travel

    Meet Macon Leary—a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new journey. It's ca

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    A Time of Gifts

    Patrick Leigh Fermor · 1977 · Travel

    Leigh Fermor walked from London to Budapest when he was 18. Sometimes called England's greatest travel writer.

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    The Great Railway Bazaar

    Paul Theroux · 1975 · Travel

    A four-month rail journey across Asia; the book that revived modern travel writing.

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    One man's wilderness

    Richard Proenneke · 1973 · Travel

    To live in a pristine land unchanged by man; to roam the wilderness through which few other humans have passed; to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log cabin; to be a self-sufficient cra

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    Neither here nor there

    Bill Bryson · 1991 · Travel

    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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    Letters from Rifka

    Karen Hesse · 1992 · Travel

    Daunting tale of a Jewish girl's journey during Anti-Semitic Germany.

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    The Seduction of the Mediterranean

    Robert Aldrich · 1993 · Travel

    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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    Satori in Paris

    Jack Kerouac · 1966 · Travel

    Satori in Paris: An autobiographical account of Kerouac's search for his heritage in France, populated by seedy bars and all-night conversations. Pic: Ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson of North Ca

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