 | The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.00 or anything else by Dalrymple. The historical background combined with the travel stories make his work brilliant.
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 | The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux
Buy used from: £0.94 Love his travelbooks (but not his fiction)
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 | South India (Lonely Planet Country Guide) by Paul Harding
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £2.67 LP guidebooks are lifesavers. This just the last one I used, but they are the best.
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 | Pole to Pole by Michael Palin
Buy used from: £0.01 The best of his travel series, Allthough 80 days and full circle are also very good
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 | Extra Virgin: Amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria by Annie Hawes
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 Great for atmosphere, not a lot of travelling, but a lot of intercultural misunderstanding
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 | With No One as Witness by Elizabeth George
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 For those long hours on an Indian train (or anything else written by her)
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 | Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
Buy used from: £0.01 Basically a story about travelling. I would have recommended Chocolat, but you can never het a good bar in Asia (cadbury's is just surrogate)
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 | McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland by Pete McCarthy
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.25 look for your own name on a bar, always a good idea
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 | A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin
Buy used from: £0.01 The gloomy descriptions of scotland are great on a sunny beach in Thailand
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 | The First World War by John Keegan
Buy new: £11.58 / Used from: £1.98 Take this one to Ypres
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 | Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart
Buy used from: £0.01 Out of his depth in the south of Spain
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 | The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £0.56 To be read on location in Vietnam
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 If only for the description of backpacker hangouts either in the city or on the beach
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 | Out of Africa (Penguin Modern Classics) by Isak Dinesen
Buy new: £6.55 / Used from: £0.01 'I had a farm in Africa....'
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 | The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £8.58 Another one on India, but, hey, I love the country and Calcutta is a great city
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 | SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea by John 'Lofty' Wiseman
Buy used from: £7.64 you never know when you need it
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 | Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £3.32 If the SAS handbook doesn't help, Taoism might
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.01 / Used from: £0.80 His best
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 | The Client by John Grisham
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Especially the 15th hand copy you bartered in a shop in Korea (or anything else by Grisham except the Broker)
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 | China: Alive in the Bitter Sea by Fox Butterfield
Buy used from: £2.18 For anyone who still thinks the cultural revolution was fun
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 | Abdul's Taxi to Kalighat: Impressions of Calcutta by Joe Roberts
Buy used from: £0.98 Another one of these highly recognisable accounts
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 | Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot) by Agatha Christie
Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £0.01 Not a terrible fan of hers, but these books are always available in second hand book stores and travellers hangouts. This one is a must, as all of the described places still can be visited in Egypt..
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 | The Year of Living Dangerously by C.J. Koch
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £4.38 The one to take to Indonesia
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 | War and Peace (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £5.00 The only non technical english language title available in the International bookstore in Kunming, China in september 1996. Great for reading up on your Russian classics. Sigh....
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 | Travel with Children (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) by Maureen Wheeler
Buy used from: £0.01 Certainly kids alter the way you backpack. We took our 5 and 3 year old kids to India and it was great!
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