The Best of Granta Travel

The Best of Granta Travel

By
Bill Buford
Bill Buford(Editor)
1991 • 408 pages

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37 books

Cambodia

Daren
Daren
The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China
The Five Pound Look
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
The Road To Angkor
Round the World in Seventy Days
Tiger for Breakfast
A Vagabond in Asia

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41 books

Uganda

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Daren
The Long Walks: Journeys to the Sources of the White Nile
The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
Off the Rails
Dirtroads
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
Beyond the Devil's Teeth : Journeys in Gondwanaland
The White Nile

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15 books

Benin

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Daren
Forest of Memories
The Forgotten Path
Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers
Flash for Freedom!
Anywhere But Here
The Dark Kingdoms
African Switchback

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2,153 books

Non Fiction

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Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work

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109 books

Non Fiction Short Story Ies

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Daren
On The Road To Damascus
Great Journeys
Great Railway Journeys
A Merry Dance Around The World
Forest of Memories
Forty Yarns and a Song
Traffics And Discoveries

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81 books

Spain

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Daren
Death In The Afternoon
Silk Hats and No Breakfast
Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
The Sun Also Rises
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Islands Ahead

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238 books

China

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Daren
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Red Dust: A Path Through China
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Great Wall
The Terracotta Army

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344 books

India

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Daren
Days and Nights in Calcutta
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Losing Gemma
Sea of Poppies
The Vine Of Desire
Travels Through Sacred India

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425 books

Multi Continent

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In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
The Wrong Way Home
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
The Bonesetter's Daughter
On The Road To Damascus

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20 books

Romania

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Daren
Dragoman Pass
The Broken Road
Travels in the Balkans
Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
Stalin's Nose : Across the Face of Europe
The Historian

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28 books

Ukraine

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Daren
Corner Seat
The Incredible Mile: Siberia - Mongolia - Uzbekistan
Tiger for Breakfast
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
Russia: A 1000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East
Stalin's Nose : Across the Face of Europe

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64 books

Multiple Authors

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Great Journeys
Great Railway Journeys
Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide
One Thousand Roads to Mecca:
A Book of Lands and Peoples
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Sunrise on the Southbound Sleeper: More Great Railway Journeys from the Daily Telegraph

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14 books

Nicaragua

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Daren
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Empire of the Blue Water
The Jaguar Smile
New Worlds to Conquer
The Accidental Adventurer
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?"
Southern Cross to Pole Star: Tschiffely's Ride

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17 books

Czech Republic

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Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants
The Rise and Fall of Prussia
Russia: A 1000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East
Stalin's Nose : Across the Face of Europe
Utz
New Europe
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey

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33 books

Borneo

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My Life with the Headhunters
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Mulu: The rain forest
The Flying Carpet
A River in Borneo
A Stroll Through Borneo
Borneo and the Poet

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66 books

Malaysia

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Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder
With My Back to the East
The Surgeon's Log
We Ended in Bali
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Mulu: The rain forest
First Overland

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20 books

Hungary

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Daren
Travels in the Balkans
Russia: A 1000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East
Stalin's Nose : Across the Face of Europe
New Europe
Szabad
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
Attila the Hun

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29 books

Poland

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The Rise and Fall of Prussia
Corner Seat
Imperium
Russia: A 1000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East
Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
Stalin's Nose : Across the Face of Europe
The Bronski House

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9 books

Slovakia

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Daren
Russia: A 1000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East
Stalin's Nose : Across the Face of Europe
New Europe
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
A Time of Gifts
Boldness Be My Friend
The Amber Trail: A Journey of Discovery by Bicycle, from the Baltic Sea to the Aegean

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123 books

Egypt

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Daren
To the Holy Shrines
Revolt in the Desert
Return Ticket
The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth
Middle East Journey
Egypt Painted & Described
The Phoenix in the Desert

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84 books

Peru

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Daren
To Infinity and Beyond: What Che Guevara Started, Someone Had to Finish
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Treasures Of The Andes: The Glories Of Inca And Pre Columbian South America
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Amazon Journey
Across the River of Death

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28 books

Cuba

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Daren
The Winds of December
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Blue Cuban Nights
A Walk Around the West Indies
Empire of the Blue Water
Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

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346 books

Uk

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Daren
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Love & Peace with Melody Paradise
Vurt
Falling Out of Cars
Man and Boy
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

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6 books

Belarus

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Daren
Imperium
Russia: A 1000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East
The Bronski House
Riders to the Midnight Sun
The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage
The Best of Granta Travel

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1,513 books

Travel

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City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Red Dust: A Path Through China
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Travelling: An Entertainment
The Wrong Way Home
On The Road To Damascus