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Original Works of Travel Writing

Albinia, Alice, Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River. (London: John Murray, 2008).  More Details.

Attlee, James, Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey. (London: Black Swan, 2009).  More Details.

Barich, Bill, A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change and the Fate of the Irish Pub. (London: Bloomsbury, 2009).  More Details.

Batuman, Elif, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).  More Details.

Bennett, Vanora, The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar. (London: Review, 2003).  More Details.

Berger, John and Mohr, Jean, At the Edge of the World. (London: Reaktion, 1999).  More Details.

Boudin, Chesa, Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America. (New York: Scribner, 2009).  More Details.

Byrne, David, Bicycle Diaries. (London: Faber & Faber, 2009).  More Details.

Carter, Mike, Uneasy Rider: Travels Through a Mid-Life Crisis. (London: Ebury, 2009).  More Details.

Cartwright, Justin, This Secret Garden: Oxford Revisited . (London: Bloomsbury, 2009).  More Details.

Cheuse, Alan, Trance After Breakfast. (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2009).  More Details.

Cilauro, Santo and Gleisner, Tom and Sitch, Rob, Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry. (Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2003).  More Details.

Clare, Horatio, A Single Swallow:Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales. (London: Chatto & Windus, 2009).  More Details.

Conover, Ted, The Routes of Man: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today. (New York: Knopf, 2010).  More Details.

Cormier, Rene, The University of Gravel Roads: Global Lessons from a Four-Year Motorcycle Adventure. (Edmonton: Renadian Adventures, 2001).  More Details.

Coyne, Tom, A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee. (New York: Gotham Books, 2009).  More Details.

Cusk, Rachel, The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy. (London: Faber & Faber, 2009).  More Details.

Dalrymple, William, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. (London: Bloomsbury, 2009).  More Details.

Danelo, David, The Border: The Exploring the U.S.-Mexican Divide. (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008).  More Details.

de Bellaigue, Christopher, Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples . (London: Bloomsbury, 2009).  More Details.

de Botton, Alain, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary. (London: Profile Books, 2009).  More Details.

Dolgin, Kevin, The Third Tower Up from the Road: A Compilation of Columns from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s Kevin Dolgin Tells You About Places You Should Go. (Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press, 2009).  More Details.

Dwyer, John, High Road To Tibet: Travels China, Tibet, Nepal and India. (Cork: The Author, 2009).  More Details.

Eames, Andrew, Blue River, Black Sea. (London: Bantam Press, 2009).  More Details.

Fabijancic, Tony, Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country. (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2003).  More Details.

Farley, David, An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town. (New York: Gotham, 2009).  More Details.

Ferry, Peter, Travel Writing. (London: Chatto & Windus, 2008).  More Details.

Fiennes, William, The Snow Geese. (London: Picador, 2003).  More Details.

Frayn, Michael, Travels with a Typewriter. (London: Faber and Faber, 2009).  More Details.

Fremantle, Tom, The Road to Timbuktu: Down the Niger on the Trail of Mungo Park. (London: Constable and Robinson, 2005).  More Details.

Fry, Joan, How to Cook a Tapir: A Memoir of Belize. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009).  More Details.

Gimlette, John, Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace. (London: Hutchinson, 2008).  More Details.

Glassman, Steve, On the Trail of the Maya Explorer: Tracing the Epic Journey of John Lloyd Stephens. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003).  More Details.

Graham, Philip, The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).  More Details.

Grann, David, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. (New York: Doubleday, 2009).  More Details.

Green, Roger, Destination Nowhere: A South Mimms Motorway Service Station Diary. (London: Athena Press, 2004).  More Details.

Griest, Stephanie Elizondo, Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines . (New York: Washington Square Press, 2008).  More Details.

Hamilton, Jack, The Good Balkans: Adventures between old and new Bulgaria. (: Wild Man Books, 2009).  More Details.

Heat-Moon, William Least, Blue Highways: A Journey into America. [1983] (New York: Back Bay Books, 1999).  More Details.

Hoffman, Carl, The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes. (New York: Broadway, 2010).  More Details.

Horwitz, Tony, A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America. (New York: PIcador, 2009).  More Details.

Jacob, Rahul, Right of Passage: Travels from Brooklyn to Bali. (New Delhi: Picador India, 2008).  More Details.

Jamie, Kathleen, Findings. (London: Sort Of, 2005).  More Details.

Jian, Ma, Red Dust: A Path Through China., translated by Flora Drew (London: Chatto and Windus, 2001).  More Details.

Kalder, Daniel, Strange Telescopes. [2008] (London: Faber & Faber, 2008).  More Details.

Kassabova, Kapka, Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria. (London: Portobello Books, 2008).  More Details.

Katakis, Michael, Traveller: Observations from an American in Exile. (San Francisco: Burton & Park, 2009).  More Details.

Kiteley, Brian, The River Gods. (Tuscaloosa: Fiction Collective Two / University of Alabama Press, 2009).  More Details.

Knisley, Lucy, French Milk. (New York: Touchstone, 2008).  More Details.

Kohnstamm, Thomas, Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics and Professional Hedonism . [2008] (New York: Random House, 0).  More Details.

Lee, Carl, Home, A Personal Geography of Sheffield. (Sheffield: Fou Fou Publishing, 2009).  More Details.

Luongo, Michael (ed), Gay Travels in the Muslim World. (Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, 2007).  More Details.

Maconie, Stuart, Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England. (London: Ebury Press, 2009).  More Details.

Maitland, Sara, A Book of Silence. (London: Granta, 2009).  More Details.

Marsden, Philip, The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance. (New York: Harper Perennial, 2006).  More Details.

Marshall, Paule, Triangular Road: A Memoir. (New York: Basic Civitas, 2009).  More Details.

Maspéro, François, Transit & Cie. (Paris: La Quinzaine Littéraire / Louis Vuitton, 2004).  More Details.

Mayo, C M, Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miiles through Baja California, the Other Mexico. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2002).  More Details.

Mehta, Suketu, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. (New York: Knopf, 2005).  More Details.

Miller, Sam, Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity. (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009).  More Details.

Minor, William, Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004).  More Details.

Morris, Jan, Contact! Brief Encounters in a Lifetime of Travel. (London: Faber and Faber, 2009).  More Details.

Mueller, Andrew, I Wouldn't Start From Here: the 21st Century and Where it all Went Wrong. (London: Portobello Books, 2008).  More Details.

Nielsen, Ellie, Buying a Piece of Paris. (New York: St Martin's Press, 2009).  More Details.

Nooteboom, Cees, Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space. [2006], translated by Ann Kelland, introduced by Alberto Manguel (New York: Mariner Books, 2009).  More Details.

Nugent, Rory, Down at the Docks. (New York: Knopf, 2009).  More Details.

Osborne, Lawrence, The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall. (New York: North Point Press, 2006).  More Details.

Parker, Philip, The Empire Stops Here: A Journey along the Frontiers of the Roman World . (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009).  More Details.

Petrusich, Amanda, It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music. (London: Faber & Faber, 2009).  More Details.

Platt, Edward, Leadville: A Biography of the A40. (London: Picador, 2000).  More Details.

Potts, Rolf, Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer. (Palo Alto: Traveler's Tales, 2008).  More Details.

Raney, Bill and Raney, Jo Anne Walker, Letters to Zerky: A Legacy to a Lost Son and a Road Trip Around the World. (Santa Cruz, CA: Nickelodeon Press, 2009).  More Details.

Regan, Margaret, The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2010).  More Details.

Richards, Susan, Lost and Found in Russia: Encounters in a Deep Heartland. (London: I B Tauris, 2009).  More Details.

Russell, Michael W, In Waiting: Travels in the Shadow of Edwin Muir. (Glasgow: Neil Wilson Publishing, 1998).  More Details.

Schmidle, Nicholas, To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan. (New York: Henry Holt, 2009).  More Details.

Schwantes, Carlos A., Just One Restless Rider: Reflections on Trains and Travel. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009).  More Details.

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir. (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2009).  More Details.

Severin, Tim, In Search of Moby Dick. [1999] (London: Abacus, 2000).  More Details.

Sinclair, Iain, Hackney, That Rose-red Empire: A Confidential Report. (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2009).  More Details.

Steavenson, Wendell, Stories I Stole: From Georgia. (London: Atlantic Books, 2002).  More Details.

Stewart, Lucretia, The Weather Prophet: A Caribbean Journey. (London: Vintage, 1996).  More Details.

Stewart, Lucretia, Tiger Balm: Travels in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. [1992] (London: Chatto and Windus, 1998).  More Details.

Stewart, Rory, The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq. (New York: Mariner, 2007).  More Details.

Stewart, Rory, The Places in Between. (New York: Mariner, 2006).  More Details.

Stewart, Rory, The Places in Between. (New York: Mariner, 2006).  More Details.

Swick, Thomas, A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler. (Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2003).  More Details.

Thompson, Chuck, Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007).  More Details.

Thomson, Ian, The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica. (London: Faber & Faber, 2009).  More Details.

Thubron, Colin, In Siberia. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1999).  More Details.

Tower, Wells, 'Meltdown', Outside (2008).  More Details.

Tsui, Bonnie, American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods. (New York: Free Press, 2009).  More Details.

Watson, Catherine, Roads Less Traveled: Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth. (Minneapolis: Syren Book Co, 2005).  More Details.

Watson, Catherine, Home on the Road: Further Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth. (Minneapolis: Syren Book Co, 2007).  More Details.

Wheeler, Sara, The Magnetic North: Notes From the Arctic Circle . (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009).  More Details.

Wong, Jan, Chinese Whispers: Searching for Forgiveness in Beijing. (London: Atlantic Books, 2009).  More Details.

Yeadon, David, At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula. (New York: Harper Perennial, 2009).  More Details.

Zoellner, Tom, Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World. (New York: Viking, 2009).  More Details.

 

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