 | Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £8.80 A classic of tolerance and humour.
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 | The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.46 The unrivalled description of Scott's last journey. Often frightening in its intensity.
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 | Arabian Sands (Travel Library) by Wilfred Thesiger
Buy used from: £8.42 Exciting and informative about cultures that have already passed away.
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 | A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Picador Books) by Eric Newby
Buy used from: £0.01 Very, very funny.
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 | The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.09 Perhaps the only really convincing mystical travel book.
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 | The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux
Buy used from: £0.22 The ultimate railway entusiast's trip.
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 | Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander , William Kinglake
Buy new: £10.58 / Used from: £11.59 The ultimate Englishman abroad. A true classic.
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 | Wild Wales by George Borrow
Buy used from: £36.63 Best read, as I first did, when actually travelling in Wales
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 | News 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.
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 | Travels 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.
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