 | Inca Kola: A Traveller's Tale of Peru by Matthew Parris
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 The first travel book I ever read, and one of the funniest
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 | News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir by Peter Fleming
Buy used from: £0.45 It gets no better than this - brilliant writing, an amazing journey
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 | The Last Grain Race (Picador Books) by Eric Newby
Buy new: £5.99 Wonderfully evocative - my favourite by Newby
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 | The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.99 A travel book with a story - couldn't put this one down
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 | South from Granada (Penguin Travel Library) by Gerald Brenan
Buy used from: £3.00 Is this a travel book? I don't think so, but a marvellous description of pre-Civil War Spain
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 | The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania by Robert Carver
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £5.93 Proper travel writing, with a map and a route
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 | Frontiers of Heaven: Journey Beyond the Great Wall by Stanley Stewart
Buy used from: £0.01 Rough Guide doesn't rate this, but his description of Kashgar inspired me to travel there
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 | In Xanadu: A Quest (Flamingo) by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £0.01 How to make profitable use of the long Cambridge vacation
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 | An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.38 An adventure undertaken with flagrant disregard for life and limb
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 | Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers (Paladin Books) by Nick Danziger
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.01 Fascinating, but I'm glad I didn't travel with Danziger!!
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 | To The Frontier by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Buy new: £4.41 / Used from: £0.01 Awe-inspiring subject, and Moorhouse is a great travelling companion
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 | Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Buy used from: £1.98 Timeless classic, ultimate adventure
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 | The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.81 No messing around here....Rory Stewart gets into the soul of the people
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 | The 8.55 to Baghdad by Andrew Eames
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 You can relive this wonderful journey as far as Palmyra, and you won't regret it!
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