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Travel Writing A-H

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• 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan - by Cathy N. Davidson
• AA Gill Is Away - by AA Gill
• Across the Sabbath River - In vivid, engaging portraits, Halkin amasses the evidence that he has discovered the existence of a living remnant of a biblical lost tribe.
• Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World - Morris travels to the corners of the earth to document the stories of extraordinary women
• Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush - An epic quest that took her from the peaks of the Himalaya to the shores of Greece
• An African in Greenland - by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
• African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe - by Doris Lessing
• Alaska Passages 20 Voices from above the 54th Parallel
• Almost an Island: Travels in Baja California - by Bruce Berger
• Almost French: Love and New Life in Paris - Fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor, Almost French is an enthralling read.
• Along the Inca Road: A Woman's Journey - by Karin Muller
• An American Traveler: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Sport - A scintillating new collection from one of America's premier travel writers.
• American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville - What it means to be an American, and what American can be, at the dawn of the 21st century.
• Among the Russians - A fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue.
• Another Wilderness: Notes from the New Outdoorswoman - by Susan Fox Rogers
• Arabian Sands - This now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.
• The Aran Islands - by J.M. Synge
• Arctic Crossing : A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture - by Jonathan Waterman
• Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana - by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
• As Told at the Explorer's Club - Takes you to all corners of the globe, from Amundsen to Lindbergh, from the Arctic to Antarctica, and all points in between.
• Baby Sweet's - by Raymond Andrews
• Bad Land: An American Romance - by Jonathan Raban
• Bad Lands: A Tourist On the Axis of Evil - Examines nine contrasting countries that are largely closed off from the outside world.
• Baghdad Sketches - by Freya Stark
• Barcelona: The Great Enchantress - A decade after the publication of his bestselling chronicle Barcelona, this renowned author and art critic revisits Barcelona.
• Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast - Travels through a place and a way of life that are vanishing virtually before our eyes.
• Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy - Filled with recipes from her Tuscan kitchen and written in the sensuous prose that has become her hallmark.
• The Berkshire Reader: Writings from New England's Secluded Paradise
• The Best American Travel Writing 2004 - A celebration of adventure and curiosity, this compilation transports readers from Patagonia to the Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont.
• Best American Travel Writing 2005 - edited by Jamaica Kincaid
• Best American Travel Writing 2006 2006 - A celebration of adventure and curiosity, this compilation transports readersfrom Patagonia to the Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont.
• The Best American Travel Writing 2007 - Bestselling author and "New Yorker" staff writer Susan Orlean edits this years volume of the finest travel writing from the past year.
• The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years - by Editors of Outside
• Between the Woods and the Water (New York Review Classic series) - by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan - by Jamie Zeppa
• Biografi: A Traveller's Tale - by Lloyd Jones
• The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers - Each essay is a passionate experience of life refracted through the eyes and voice of a singularly evocative and original writer.
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia - The author's travels to Yugoslavia in 1937
• Bridges to Cuba / Puentes a Cuba - edited by Ruth Behar
• Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution - by Edith T. Mirante
• Burton Holmes Travelogues: The Greatest Traveler of His Time, 1890-1938 - Will transport you to a time that has all but evaporated, and inspire you to strike out on a journey of your own.
• By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy - Reveals not just the ruined beauty of a classical past, but also the hardships of rural life.
• Simon Winchester's Calcutta - Winchester's favorite writings that reflect on this crazy, captivating, and elusive Indian city
• The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca - The story of a family's move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca
• Camps and Trails in China - by Roy Chapman Andrews
• Cape Horn And Other Stories from the End of the World - by Francisco Coloane
• Caucasus: A Journey to the Land Between Christianity and Islam - by Nicholas Griffin
• Charles Darwin Slept Here
• Chicago: The Second City - by A. J. Liebling
• City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi - by William Dalrymple
• The City of Falling Angels - The author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" returns with an intimate look at the city of Venice and its inhabitants.
• Cleopatra's Wedding Present: Travels Through Syria - by Robert Tewdwr Moss
• Coast to Coast - by Jan Morris
• Cold Sassy Tree - by Olive Ann Burns
• The Colossus of New York - by Colson Whitehead
• Coming Down the Seine - by Robert Gibbings
• Coming into the Country - by John McPhee
• The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places - A collection of travel tales from some of todays finest writers.
• The Creaky Traveler in the North West Highlands of Scotland - A Journey for the Mobile But Not Agile
• The Crofter and the Laird - by John McPhee
• The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu - Adventuress Salak became the first person to travel alone from Mali's Old Segou to Timbuktu.
• Cuba and Night - by Pico Iyer
• Dakota: A Spiritual Geography - by Kathleen Norris
• Dancing Girl of Izu - by Yasunari Kawabata
• The Dark Heart of Italy - Jones recounts his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula, where he discovers unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia.
• Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town - Takes readers on the ultimate journey across the world's most complex and mysterious continent.
• A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions - The past and present of a country that affects our imagination like few other places on earth
• Denali: A Literary Anthology - A literary collection about Denali and the broad shadow it casts in history, culture, and nature.
• Desert Divers - by Sven Lindqvist
• The Desert Road to Turkestan - Lattimore's account of crossing the Gobi desert with a camel caravan.
• Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone - by Jan Morris
• Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes
• Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece - by Patricia Storace
• Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? - Takes readers beyond his often questionable guidebook entries to reveal a disillusioned young man struggling to make good on an impossible assignment
• Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff - The tale of Mahoney's solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, and the obstacles of civil unrest and local traditions
• Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River - An extraordinary view of the Colorado's great and enduring splendor
• Downtown: A Native's Tale of Manhattan - A rich historical and personal portrait of Manhattan
• Dreams of Sleep - by Josephine Humphreys
• Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon - by Katie Hickman
• Eight Feet in the Andes - by Dervla Murphy
• Empire's Edge: Travels in Southeastern Europe, Turkey, and Central Asia - by Scott Malcolmson
• Encounters with the Middle East - Original takes on commonplace "things to do" for the traveler in the Middle East
• Enduring Patagonia - by Gregory Crouch
• Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens - A wonderfully fresh, funny, and inquiring account of Zinovieff's first year as an Athenian.
• An Evening Among the Headhunters and Other Reports from Roads Less Taken - by Lawrence Millman
• Evia: Travels on an Undiscovered Greek Island - The story of a five-month journey Wheeler made from the southern tip to the north of the island
• Facing Athens: Encounters with the Modern City - A legendary city seen afresh from an expatriate's point of view
• Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey Into the Heart of Darkness - by Jeffrey Tayler
• Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World - by Pico Iyer
• Far from Home: Father-Daughter Travel Adventures - by Wendy Knight
• The Far Islands and Other Cold Places: Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady - by Elizabeth Taylor
• Fast Company: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Motorcycles in Italy - A love letter to an uproarious city and its style-obsessed denizens, and to the motorcycle that gave him the freedom to live life at its very fastest.
• Femme d'Adventure: Tales from a Wild Life - by Jessica Maxwell
• A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat - by Jeremy Seal
• Field Notes from the Grand Canyon: Raging River, Quiet Mind - by Teresa Jordan
• The First Pass Under Heaven: An Incredible Journey Along the Great Wall of China - The journey of a lawyer, a Buddhist monk, a photojournalist, a recording artist & a Mormon golfer
• First Snow On Fuji - by Yasunari Kawabata
• The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris - Edmund White takes us into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians.
• Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour - by Gustave Flaubert
• Following the Bloom: Across America with the Migratory Beekeepers - Twelve months on the road with America's last cowboys: the migratory beekeepers.
• Following the Equator - by Mark Twain
• Forbidden Journey - A classic account of a trip through China during the golden age of travel
• Foreign Devils On the Silk Road - by Peter Hopkirk
• A Fortune Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East - A ground-level trek through Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar and other nations
• Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World - The tale of how four 18th-century sailors endured six years on a barren Arctic island.
• Four Quarters of Light: An Alaskan Journey - Keenan discovers a land as fantastical as a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure.
• Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia - by Pamela Constable
• French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France - by Richard Goodman
• French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew - Treats readers to the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France.
• Fresh Air Fiend : Travel Writings 1985-200 - by Paul Theroux
• Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait - by Malise Ruthven
• Fried Eggs with Chopsticks - Polly's eye-opening account of a culture torn between stunning modern architecture and often bizarre ancient mysteries
• From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing - An engaging historical account of the enduring impulse to visit strange lands in search of lost cities and forgotten monuments.
• Frontiers of Heaven: A Journey to the End of China - A witty, charming, affectionate account of his wanderings halfway across Asia.
• Frost On My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer - by Tim Moore
• Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle - by Dervla Murphy
• Fumbling - Egan describes her journey from grief to faith in this candid, spiritually profound account of her pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago
• Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar - Thirty years after his classic "The Great Railway Bazaar," Theroux revisits Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia.
• God's Middle Finger : Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre - Part gonzo misadventure, part cultural history, "God's Middle Finger" explores a fascinating land--the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico--where few outsiders are foolish enough to venture.
• Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild - The women in these essays eloquently convey the thrills of the solo adventure.
• Going Bush: Adventures Across Indigenous Australia - by Monique Choy
• Going to Extremes - by Joe McGinniss
• Golden Horde: From the Himalaya to the Mediterranean - In "The Afghan Amulet," Sheila Paine told the story of her extraordinary search for a mysterious amulet. Here, her quest continues
• The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia - by Paul Theroux
• Haiku Journey: Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province - by Matsuo Basho
• The Handsomest Man in Cuba: An Escapade - An engaging, witty account of the culture of Cuba framed by a fascinating approach to travel
• The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of the Life of Poppa Neutrino - A disturbing and profound look at one man's life outside the boundaries of what most consider normality.
• The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now - Portraits of South America today
• Here Is New York - by E.B. White
• Hey, Lady! How Did You Get Way Up Here?: Climbing the 4,000 Footers of New Hampshire - by Judy Fracher
• Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley - edited by Stan Yogi
• Hong Kong - Jan Morris chronicles the exploits of traders, pirates, colonists, and financiers
• Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica - Crossing the unmappable scrub of Corsica, on the paths of bandits and patriots
• A House in Corfu: A Family's Sojourn in Greece - by Emma Tennant
• The House On Via Gombito
• A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal - by Asne Seierstad
• Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers - by Mary Morris
• Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City - Compares the London of fact with the London of fiction.
• In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveller's Tale - by Amitav Ghosh
• In Morocco - Conquering the obstacles of the Great War, Edith Wharton embarks on a motor tour in 1917 through the half ruined landscape of Morocco.
• In Patagonia - by Bruce Chatwin
• In Search of Captain Zero - by Allan Weisbecker
• In Search of Zarathustra - A teacher whose radical humility shocked and challenged his age, and whose teachings have had an enduring effect on Western thought.
• In Siberia - Colin Thubron penetrates a little-understood part of the world in a way that no writer ever has.
• In the Empire of Genghis Khan - Stewart retraces the pilgrimage across the old empire of Genghis Khan, from Istanbul to Mongolia.
• In Trouble Again - by Redmond O'Hanlon
• Independent People: An Epic - Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature
• An Inn Near Kyoto: Writings by American Women Abroad
• Into the Heart of Borneo - by Redmond O'Hanlon
• Islands, the Universe, Home - by Gretel Ehrlich
• An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona - A fascinating portrait of Italian family life.
• Italian Neighbors - Tim Parks's seductive account of one Italian neighborhood and how all its quirkiness came to represent home.
• Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey - A portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua
• Journey Across Tibet: A Young Woman's Trek Across the Rooftop of the World - Sorrel Wilby hikes 1,900 miles across Tibet alone.
• A Journey in Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism - by Andrew Harvey
• Journey to Khiva: A Writer's Search for Central Asia - by Philip Glazebrook
• Journey to Mauritius - by Bernadin De Saint-Pierre
• Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture - by Jose Saramago
• Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto - by Pico Iyer
• A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
• Last Frontier 100 Tales from Alaska Magazine - edited by Jill Shepherd
• Last Places: A Journey in the North - by Lawrence Millman
• The Last Secrets of the Silk Road: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo by Horse and Camel - Four young Englishwomen retrace the ancient Silk Road -- 4,500 miles in eight months by horse and camel.
• The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader - The best of Durrell's incomparable travel writing, collected for the first time in a single volume.
• Leading Out: Women Climbers Reaching for the Top - edited by Rachel Da Silva
• Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan - With warmth and candor, bestselling author Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in the world's most heralded school systems.
• Letter from China - A poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing.
• Living With Cannibals And Other Women's Adventures - by Michele Slung
• Looking for Alaska - by Peter Jenkins
• Looking for the Lost Journeys Japan - by Alan Booth
• Lost in the Arctic: Explorations On the Edge - by Lawrence Millman