The Great Railway Bazaar
By: Paul Theroux
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining…
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1. A Dry White Season
By: André P. Brink
4.07
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic … read more
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"How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very most we are like two strangers meeting in the white wintry veld and sitting down together for a w…"-André P. Brink, A Dry White Season
"Happiness? It was one of the saddest nights of my life, an ageless sadness that insinuated itself into the very heart of this new world and deepened slowly into anguish and agony. There she was sleep…"-André P. Brink, A Dry White Season
2. Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
By: Tim Butcher
3.98
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- travelogue
"In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken."-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark."-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchi…"-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own categor…"-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
3. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
By: Patricia Schultz
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Around the World, continent by continent, here is the best the world has to offer: 1,000 places gua… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- adventure
4. Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
By: Jack Kerouac , Paul Marion
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent… read more
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- travel
5. Washington, D.C.
By: Gore Vidal
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Washington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire, his acclaimed six-… read more
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6. Around the World in 80 Days: Companion to the PBS Series
By: Michael Palin , Jan Morris
3.58
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
British actor and comedian Michael Palin -- best known to American audiences for his work in Monty … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- adventure
7. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
By: Bill Bryson
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funnie… read more
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- travel
- travelogue
- nonfiction
- memoir
8. A Year in Provence
By: Peter Mayle
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to r… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
9. Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
By: Joshua Foer , Dylan Thuras , Ella Morton , None
3.92
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscuracelebrates over 600 of the strangest and … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- adventure
10. The Great Railway Bazaar
By: Paul Theroux
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- asia
- india
- nonfiction
- travelogue
11. In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
12. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
13. Notes from a Small Island
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
14. Walking the Nile
By: Levison Wood
3.87
Format: 144 pages, ebook
A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller His journey is 4,250 miles long. He is walki… read more
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15. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
By: Evelyn Waugh , Eric Newby
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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16. The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
By: Rory Stewart
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-spea… read more
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17. The Art of Travel
By: Alain de Botton
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Any Baedeker will tell us wherewe ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us howand why… read more
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18. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
By: Ewan McGregor , Charley Boorman , None
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan… read more
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19. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
By: Rolf Potts
3.55
Format: 320 pages,
Vagabondingis about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two ye… read more
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20. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- travelogue
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
21. Walking The Himalayas
By: Levison Wood
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest … read more
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