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Books like Fresh air fiend

Loved Fresh air fiend by Paul Theroux? 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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    Don't Get Too Comfortable

    David Rakoff · 2005 · Travel

    David Rakoff’s bestselling collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of today’s funniest and most insightful writers. Now, in Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff moves from th

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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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    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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    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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    With Chatwin

    Susannah Clapp · 1997 · Travel

    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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