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Books like Sir Vidia's shadow
Loved Sir Vidia's shadow 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
Two unfit friends attempt the Appalachian Trail; very funny, with real love for wild places.
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Into Thin Air
A first-hand account of the deadly 1996 Everest disaster; tense, honest and unforgettable.
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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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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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Into the Wild
A young man walks into the Alaskan wilderness and doesn't come back; a haunting study of an idealist.
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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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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