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The Great Railway Bazaar
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Paul Theroux
    3.88 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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Bill Bryson
    3.97 avg rating — 18,765 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by
Bill Bryson
    4.01 avg rating — 51,940 ratings
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Travels With Charley: In Search of America
by
John Steinbeck
    3.98 avg rating — 14,896 ratings
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The Old Patagonian Express
by
Paul Theroux
    3.86 avg rating — 1,270 ratings
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A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns
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Denis Lipman (Goodreads Author)
    3.85 avg rating — 61 ratings
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In Patagonia
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Bruce Chatwin
    3.78 avg rating — 1,714 ratings
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Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
by
Sarah Macdonald
    3.47 avg rating — 3,518 ratings
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Paris to the Moon
by
Adam Gopnik
    3.66 avg rating — 3,899 ratings
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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
by
Bill Bryson
    3.82 avg rating — 9,940 ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by
Tony Horwitz
    4.06 avg rating — 5,078 ratings
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Blue Highways
by
William Least Heat-Moon
    3.93 avg rating — 3,516 ratings
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The Songlines
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Bruce Chatwin
    4.03 avg rating — 1,790 ratings
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Ada: Legend of a Healer
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R.A. McDonald (Goodreads Author)
    4.06 avg rating — 87 ratings
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
by
Eric Newby
    4.00 avg rating — 568 ratings
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The Road to Oxiana
by
Robert Byron
    3.93 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by
Tony Horwitz
    3.91 avg rating — 1,872 ratings
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Roughing It
by
Mark Twain
    3.85 avg rating — 2,040 ratings
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Death in the Afternoon
by
Ernest Hemingway
    3.66 avg rating — 2,219 ratings
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
by
Bill Bryson
    3.69 avg rating — 10,470 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss
by
Eric Weiner
    3.76 avg rating — 7,299 ratings
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The Innocents Abroad
by
Mark Twain
    3.80 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
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Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
by
Paul Theroux
    3.87 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
by
Paul Theroux
    3.88 avg rating — 2,515 ratings
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Everything is Illuminated
by
Jonathan Safran Foer
    3.88 avg rating — 47,957 ratings
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First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
by
Eve Brown-Waite (Goodreads Author)
    3.61 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road
by
Stuart Stevens
    3.80 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Arabian Sands
by
Wilfred Thesiger
    4.20 avg rating — 460 ratings
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The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
by
Robert D. Kaplan
    4.07 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
by
Paul Theroux
    3.93 avg rating — 964 ratings
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Holidays in Hell
by
P.J. O'Rourke
    3.93 avg rating — 815 ratings
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13 Little Blue Envelopes (Little Blue Envelope, #1)
by
Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author)
    3.69 avg rating — 17,327 ratings
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China: Portrait of a People
by
Tom Carter (Goodreads Author)
    4.75 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
by
Ralph Helfer
    4.13 avg rating — 2,359 ratings
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36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
by
Cathy N. Davidson
    3.90 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
by
Sarah Erdman
    3.96 avg rating — 647 ratings
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Slumdog Millionaire
by
Vikas Swarup
    3.96 avg rating — 6,871 ratings
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The Tree Where Man Was Born
by
Peter Matthiessen
    4.01 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
by
Pico Iyer
    3.51 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Snow Leopard
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Peter Matthiessen
    4.10 avg rating — 1,896 ratings
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Labels
by
Evelyn Waugh
    3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa
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Hans W. Silvester
    4.56 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
by
Sara Wheeler
    3.94 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Coming Into the Country
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John McPhee
    4.11 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
by
Jason Roberts (Goodreads Author)
    4.02 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
by
Peter Hessler
    4.14 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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A Lion Called Christian
by
Anthony Bourke
    3.88 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
by
Mark Twain
    3.96 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Telex from Cuba
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Rachel Kushner (Goodreads Author)
    3.31 avg rating — 902 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: A Memoir
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William Kamkwamba (Goodreads Author)
    4.10 avg rating — 3,138 ratings
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Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
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Tony Horwitz
    3.97 avg rating — 844 ratings
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On Mexican Time: A New Life In San Miguel
by
Tony Cohan
    3.50 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River
by
Colin Angus
    3.75 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Kingdom by the Sea
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Paul Theroux
    3.60 avg rating — 673 ratings
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Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
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Mary Morris (Goodreads Author)
    3.73 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Slowly Down the Ganges
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Eric Newby
    3.65 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place
by
Mary Lee Settle
    3.23 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure
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Stuart Stevens
    3.71 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Notes for the Aurora Society
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Jim O'Donnell
    4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Bone Man of Benares: A Lunatic Trip Through Love and the World
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Terry Tarnoff
    4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Beach
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Alex Garland
    3.81 avg rating — 12,734 ratings
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Live Fast, Die Young
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Chris Price (Goodreads Author)
    4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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In Over Her Head
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Elsie Russell (Goodreads Author)
    4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
by
John Gimlette
    3.45 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Sleeping Around: A Couch Surfing Tour Of The Globe
by
Brian Thacker (Goodreads Author)
    3.68 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Wander the Rainbow
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David Jedeikin (Goodreads Author)
    3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Sherry and Narcotics
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Nina-Marie Gardner (Goodreads Author)
    4.16 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico
by
Peter Kuper
    3.95 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by
Eric Weiner
    3.76 avg rating — 7,299 ratings
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Hand to Mouth to India
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Tom Thumb
    3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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See Before You Die: Costa Rica (Aurora Night, #1)
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J.E. Leigh (Goodreads Author)
    3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Way of the World
by
Nicolas Bouvier
    4.21 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Under the Huang Jiao Tree: Two Journeys in China
by
Jane Carswell
    4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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In Xanadu: A Quest
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William Dalrymple
    3.95 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate
by
Annelie Rozeboom (Goodreads Author)
    4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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Candice Millard
    4.12 avg rating — 4,746 ratings
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Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos
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Natacha Du Pont de Bie
    3.62 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold
by
Michael Benanav
    3.69 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan
by
Alan Booth
    4.12 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Red Dust: A Path Through China
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Ma Jian
    3.80 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Honeymoon with My Brother: A Memoir
by
Franz Wisner
    3.43 avg rating — 2,560 ratings
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Between the Woods and the Water
by
Patrick Leigh Fermor
    4.37 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere
by
Jan Morris
    3.95 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters
by
William Dalrymple
    3.83 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by
Geraldine Brooks
    3.98 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
by
Emma Larkin
    3.85 avg rating — 768 ratings
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Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa
by
Ann Jones
    3.63 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Cider With Roadies
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Stuart Maconie
    3.82 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places
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Klara Glowczewska
    3.29 avg rating — 116 ratings
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
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William Dalrymple
    4.20 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Beyond the Horizon: The Great Race to Finish the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Planet
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Colin Angus
    3.80 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Hokkaido Highway Blues
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Will Ferguson
    3.97 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Lonel Jaywalking with the Irish
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David Monagan
    3.36 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America
by
Lily Burana
    3.41 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Nine Lives
by
William Dalrymple
    3.89 avg rating — 666 ratings
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The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier
by
Sarah Murgatroyd
    3.98 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea & the Holy Land
by
John Lloyd Stephens
    4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
by
Jeffrey Tayler
    3.66 avg rating — 195 ratings
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
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William Dalrymple
    3.98 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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An African in Greenland
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