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Best 21st century travel books
Hearing Birds Fly: A Year in a Mongolian VillageHearing Birds Fly: A Year in a Mongolian Village by Louisa Waugh
Buy new: £5.86 / Used from: £3.40
Best book about Mongolia I know of, managing to evade the romantic clichés
Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian LaplandRunning with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland by Roger Took
Buy used from: £1.07
Great book written in the classic tradition
Brazil: Life, Blood, SoulBrazil: Life, Blood, Soul by John Malathronas
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.79
As vibrant, huge and demanding as Brazil itself
The Snow GeeseThe Snow Geese by William Fiennes
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01
Good composition, delicate
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African ChildhoodDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01
Actually more a history book, but travel in time and in distance are essentially the same
Islomania: A Journey Among the Last Real IslandsIslomania: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands by Thurston Clarke
Buy used from: £0.01
What's more fascinating than islands?
River Town: Two Years on the YangtzeRiver Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
Buy new: £7.40 / Used from: £0.01
About what living in rural China as a foreigner means
Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of PeruTrail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru by Tahir Shah
Buy used from: £6.77
By (one of) the best travel writer(s) of this era
Outcasts of the Islands: The Sea Gypsies of South East AsiaOutcasts of the Islands: The Sea Gypsies of South East Asia by Sebastian Hope
Buy used from: £1.75
Describing the life of the Asian 'sea gypsies'