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10 Favourite Travel Books
Travels with a Donkey in the CevennesTravels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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A classic of tolerance and humour.
The Worst Journey in the WorldThe Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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The unrivalled description of Scott's last journey. Often frightening in its intensity.
Arabian Sands (Travel Library)Arabian Sands (Travel Library) by Wilfred Thesiger
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Exciting and informative about cultures that have already passed away.
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Picador Books)A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Picador Books) by Eric Newby
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Very, very funny.
The Snow LeopardThe Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
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Perhaps the only really convincing mystical travel book.
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through AsiaThe Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux
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The ultimate railway entusiast's trip.
Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the EastEothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander , William Kinglake
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The ultimate Englishman abroad. A true classic.
Wild WalesWild Wales by George Borrow
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Best read, as I first did, when actually travelling in Wales
News from TartaryNews from Tartary by Peter Fleming
Buy new: £7.45 / Used from: £3.75
Travel with the "real" James Bond and the remarkable Ella Maillart - and you do meet the real M on a train.
Travels in Arabia Deserta: Volume 1Travels in Arabia Deserta: Volume 1 by Charles Montagu Doughty
Buy new: £14.02
Hard going but it is worth mastering a style so strange that it is almost a foreign language to discovery strange countries and an even stranger man.