the CNT page<\/a>.<\/p>\nAlong the Ganges,<\/em> Ilija Trojanow
\nArabian Sands,<\/em> Wilfred Thesiger
\nAn Area of Darkness,<\/em> V.S. Naipaul
\nAs They Were,<\/em> M.F.K. Fisher
\nA Barbarian in Asia,<\/em> Henri Michaux
\nThe Bird Man and the Lap Dancer,<\/em> Eric Hansen
\nBitter Lemons of Cyprus, <\/em>Lawrence Durrell
\nBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon, <\/em>Rebecca West
\nBlue Highways,<\/em> William Least Heat-Moon
\nCaptain John Smith: Writings<\/em>
\nChasing the Monsoon, <\/em>Alexander Frater
\nChasing the Sea, <\/em>Tom Bissell
\nCross Country,<\/em> Robert Sullivan
\nDark Star Safari, <\/em>Paul Theroux
\nDemocracy in America, <\/em>Alexis de Tocqueville
\nDown and Out in Paris and London, <\/em>George Orwell
\nDown the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, <\/em>Rosemary Mahoney
\nThe Emperor,<\/em> Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
\nEndurance, <\/em>Alfred Lansing
\nEothen, <\/em>Alexander William Kinglake
\n“Exterminate All the Brutes,”<\/em> Sven Lindqvist
\nFarthest North: The Voyage and Exploration of the Fram, 1893\u20131896,<\/em> Fridtjof Nansen
\nFear and Loathing in Las Vegas, <\/em>Hunter S. Thompson
\nThe Fearful Void, <\/em>Geoffrey Moorhouse
\nFrom a Chinese City, <\/em>Gontran De Poncins
\nGreat Plains, <\/em>Ian Frazier
\nThe Great Railway Bazaar, <\/em>Paul Theroux
\nHindoo Holiday,<\/em> J. R. Ackerley
\nThe Histories, <\/em>Herodotus
\nThe Impossible Country, <\/em>Brian Hall
\nIn a Sunburned Country,<\/em> Bill Bryson
\nIndia: A Million Mutinies Now, <\/em>V. S. Naipaul
\nThe Innocents Abroad, <\/em>Mark Twain
\nIn Patagonia,<\/em> Bruce Chatwin
\nIn the Country of Country, <\/em>Nicholas Dawidoff
\nIn Trouble Again, <\/em>Redmond O’Hanlon
\nIron and Silk, <\/em>Mark Salzman
\nI See by My Outfit, <\/em>Peter S. Beagle
\nThe Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
\nJourney to Portugal,<\/em> Jos\u00e9 Saramago
\nLetters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians,<\/em> George Catlin
\nLetters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849\u20131850,<\/em> Florence Nightingale
\nLife on the Mississippi, <\/em>Mark Twain
\nLondon Perceived, <\/em>V. S. Pritchett
\nThe Long Walk, <\/em>Slavomir Rawicz
\nThe Lycian Shore,<\/em> Freya Stark
\nMaximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, <\/em>Suketu Mehta,
\nThe Muses Are Heard, <\/em>Truman Capote
\nThe Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches,<\/em> Matsuo Basho
\nNews from Tartary, <\/em>Peter Fleming
\nThe Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt <\/em>
\nNo Mercy: A Journey into the Heart of the Congo, <\/em>Redmond O’Hanlon
\nNotes from the Century Before, <\/em>Edward Hoagland
\nOld Glory, <\/em>Jonathan Raban
\nThe Pillars of Hercules, <\/em>Paul Theroux
\nThe Pine Barrens, <\/em>John McPhee
\nRiding the Iron Rooster, <\/em>Paul Theroux
\nThe Rings of Saturn, <\/em>W. G. Sebald
\nThe River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, <\/em>Winston Churchill
\nThe Road to Oxiana, <\/em>Robert Byron
\nRome and a Villa, <\/em>Eleanor Clark
\nRoughing It, <\/em>Mark Twain
\nArabia, <\/em>Peter Theroux
\nSea and Sardinia, <\/em>D. H. Lawrence
\nShah of Shahs, <\/em>Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
\nA Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, <\/em>Eric Newby
\nSiren Land, <\/em>Norman Douglas
\nSkating to Antarctica, <\/em>Jenny Diski
\nSlowly Down the Ganges, <\/em>Eric Newby
\nThe Songlines, <\/em>Bruce Chatwin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conde Nast commissioned a distinguished group of writers to nominate their favorite travel books. Participating authors included Andr\u00e9 Aciman, Monica Ali, Julia Alvarez, Tom Bissell, Geraldine Brooks, Vikram…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[48,13,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Conde Nast commissioned a distinguished group of writers to nominate their favorite travel books. Participating authors included Andr\u00e9 Aciman, Monica Ali, Julia Alvarez, Tom Bissell, Geraldine Brooks, Vikram Chandra, Jim Crace, Jared Diamond, Linh Dinh, Anthony Doerr, Jennifer Egan, Stephen Elliott, Nuruddin Farah, Nell Freudenberger, Peter Godwin, Peter Hessler, Uzodinma Iweala, Sebastian Junger, Robert D. Kaplan, Mary Karr, Erik Larson, Rosemary Mahoney, Peter Mayle, Tom McCarthy, John McPhee, Adrienne Miller, Jan Morris, Stewart O’Nan, Francine Prose, Jonathan Raban, Graham Robb, Akhil Sharma, Matthew Sharpe, Jim Shepard, Darin Strauss, Robert Sullivan, Manil Suri, Paul Theroux, Colin Thubron, Lynne Tillman, Luis Alberto Urrea, Gore Vidal, Sean Wilsey, John Wray, and Lawrence Wright.<\/p>\n