 | The Songlines (Picador Books) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy used from: £0.01 Inspiring, fascinating exploration of both Aboriginal Australian culture and the universal human impulse to travel.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £1.41 It's a travel book... sort of. The classic gonzo trip into the rotting soul of moden America.
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £0.01 Gripping, unputdownable story of survival in the Peruvian mountains. If only he could climb as well as he writes...
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 | Savages by Joe Kane
Buy used from: £1.21 Brilliant, poignant account of the author's time with a tribe in the Ecuadorean Amazon. Should be a must for anyone who cares/is interested in the future of tribal cultures.
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 | The Gringo Trail: A Darkly Comic Road-Trip Through South America by Mark Mann
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.50 The best book I've read about backpacking, often funny but with hints of deeper themes and some interesting stuff about S.America
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 | The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.97 Taoist musings in the mountains. I wasn't so impressed when I first read it, but it sort of stays with you.
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 | Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £0.01 Some easy targets but some home truths too about backpacking in India.
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 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Apocolypse then... an unsettling, hypnotic, darkly beautiful allegorical masterpiece
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 | The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.90 Funny account of the writer (deliberately?) getting into trouble in the Colombian coke business. Evocative descriptions.
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 | In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon by Redmond O'Hanlon
Buy used from: £0.01 Another S.American tale of the 'what-have-I-got-myself-into' variety. Very funny
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 | Good Alternative Travel Guide: Exciting Holidays for Responsible Travelers by Mark Mann
Buy new: £8.70 / Used from: £0.01 A unique guidebook to fair-trade tourism - a must for any sincere 'green' traveller. Seems to be by the same writer as The Gringo Trail which is hard to imagine if you read them both.
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 | The Journey to the East (Peter Owen Modern Classic) by Hermann Hesse
Buy used from: £2.48 Hippy classic by the author of Steppenwolf - the journey as metaphor.
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