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Books like Abroad
Loved Abroad by Paul Fussell? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from travel, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
Travel writing at its best is as much about the interior journey as the exterior one. This list spans 1966–1998 and includes 1 marked as essential reading in travel.
10 books · ranked
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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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2
The travel writer's handbook
"Comprehensive guide to writing, researching, publishing, and marketing articles, stories and books about travel. Includes travel tips and advice for the writer" - - Provided by the Publisher.
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The Accidental Tourist
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
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
A four-month rail journey across Asia; the book that revived modern travel writing.
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One man's wilderness
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'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
Daunting tale of a Jewish girl's journey during Anti-Semitic Germany.
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9
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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Satori in Paris
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