The Best Travel Books of All Time by Condé Nast

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Authors including Pico Iyer, Julia Phillips, and Imbolo Mbue et al gathered their favorite travel reads that will inspire, inform, and explore. Books included on this list—some old, some new—may have changed the way cultures, places, or people were considered in the past and may be considered in the future.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
A Barbarian in Asia Henri Michaux	0	0 reads
Along the Ganges Ilija Trojanow Ranjit Hoskote (Translator)	0	0 reads
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin	4.28	49 reads
Among the Cities Jan Morris	0	0 reads
An Area of Darkness V.S. Naipaul	3.67	4 reads
Arabian Sands Wilfred Thesiger	4.2	5 reads
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape Barry Lopez	4.5	16 reads
As They Were M.F.K. Fisher	4	1 read
A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor	4.15	16 reads
A View of the World: Selected Writings Norman Lewis	0	0 reads
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Rebecca West	0	0 reads
Blue highways William Least Heat-Moon	3.94	21 reads
Chasing the Monsoon Alexander Frater	4	1 read
Chasing the Sea Tom Bissell	0	2 reads
Corregidora Gayl Jones	3.71	8 reads
Cross Country Robert Sullivan	0	0 reads
Dark Star Safari Paul Theroux	4.17	20 reads
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville Harvey Mansfield Jr. (Translator) Delba Winthrop (Translator)	3	7 reads
Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell	4.01	127 reads
Down the Nile Rosemary Mahoney	0	2 reads
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert	3.31	415 reads
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing	4.48	185 reads
Eothen Alexander William Kinglake	2	2 reads
Exterminate All The Brutes Sven Lindqvist Joan Tate (Translator)	0	0 reads
Farthest North Volume I Farthest North Volume I Fridtjof Nansen	0	0 reads
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson	3.96	328 reads
From a Chinese City From a Chinese City Gontran De Poncins	0	0 reads
GreatPlains Ian Frazier	3.5	3 reads
Heidi Johanna Spyri	4.05	29 reads
Honouring High Places Junko Tabei Helen Y. Rolfe Yumiko Hiraki (Translator) Rieko Holtved (Translator)	5	1 read
In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson	4	144 reads
India: A Wounded Civilization V.S. Naipaul	3.75	4 reads
In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin Marina Marchesi (Translator)	3.42	25 reads
In the Country of Country Nicholas Dawidoff	0	1 read
Iron & Silk Mark Salzman	4	2 reads
I See By My Outfit Peter S. Beagle	0	0 reads
Journey to Portugal José Saramago Amanda Hopkinson (Translator) Nick Caistor (Translator)	4	1 read
Letters from Egypt Florence Nightingale	0	0 reads
London Perceived V.S. Pritchett	0	0 reads
Lonely Planet Eric Newby	3.75	4 reads
Maximum City Suketu Mehta	4.11	11 reads
Memorial Bryan Washington	3.47	59 reads
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris	3.97	468 reads
My First Summer in the Sierra John Muir	4.14	7 reads
News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir Peter Fleming	4.33	3 reads
No mercy Redmond O'Hanlon	4	5 reads
Notes from The Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia Edward Hoagland	0	0 reads
Old Glory Jonathan Raban	4	1 read
Rome and a Villa Eleanor Clark	0	0 reads
Round Ireland with a Fridge Tony Hawks	3.96	31 reads
Sandstorms Peter Theroux	0	0 reads
Sea and Sardinia D.H. Lawrence	0	0 reads
Shah Of Shahs Ryszard Kapuściński	4.05	12 reads
Siren land Norman Douglas	0	0 reads
Skating to Antarctica Jenny Diski	4	2 reads
Slowly Down the Ganges Eric Newby Wanda Newby	3	2 reads
The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia P.F. Kluge Fred Kluge	0	0 reads
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat Ryszard Kapuściński William R. Brand (Translator) Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand (Translator)	4.19	8 reads
The Fearful Void Geoffrey Moorhouse	4	1 read
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia Paul Theroux	3.84	27 reads
The Histories Herodotus Aubrey de Sélincourt (Translator)	4.02	40 reads
The impossible country Brian Hall	3.5	1 read
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain	3.67	20 reads
The Lycian Shore Freya Stark	0	0 reads
The Muses Are Heard Truman Capote	4	1 read
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Matsuo Bashō	4.17	11 reads
The Nomad Isabelle Eberhardt	0	0 reads
The People in the Trees Hanya Yanagihara	3.58	67 reads
The Pine Barrens John McPhee	4.5	2 reads
The Places In Between Rory Stewart	4.06	18 reads
The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald Michael Hulse (Translator)	4.44	25 reads
The Road To Oxiana Robert Byron	3	2 reads
The Round House Louise Erdrich	4.16	88 reads
The songlines Bruce Chatwin	3.88	9 reads
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville John Mandeville C.W.R.D. Moseley (Translator)	2.5	2 reads
The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard	3.54	16 reads
This Is Happiness Niall Williams	4.38	10 reads
To a Distant Island James McConkey	0	0 reads
Tokyo Fiancée Amélie Nothomb Alison Anderson (Translator)	3	2 reads
Travels with a donkey Robert Louis Stevenson	3	1 read
Travels With Myself And Another Martha Gellhorn	0	0 reads
Two Towns in Provence M.F.K. Fisher	0	0 reads
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube Blair Braverman	3.67	14 reads
West with the Night Beryl Markham	4.14	26 reads
Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple	3.76	355 reads
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed	3.87	392 reads
Wrong About Japan Peter Carey	2	3 reads