The Best Travel Books of All Time by Condé Nast

December 19, 2021
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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	Readers Count
Herodotus Herodotus	20 reads
India: A Wounded Civilization V.S. Naipaul	3 reads
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube Blair Braverman	6 reads
A View of the World: Selected Writings Norman Lewis	0 reads
Two Towns in Provence M.F.K. Fisher	0 reads
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville John Mandeville C.W.R.D. Moseley (Translator)	1 read
Tokyo Fiancée Amélie Nothomb Alison Anderson (Translator)	0 reads
To a Distant Island James McConkey	0 reads
This Is Happiness Niall Williams	6 reads
Slowly Down the Ganges Eric Newby Wanda Newby	1 read
Skating to Antarctica Jenny Diski	0 reads
Siren land Norman Douglas	0 reads
Shah of Shahs Ryszard Kapuściński William R. Brand (Translator) Ljubica Rosić (Translator) Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand (Translator)	4 reads
Sea and Sardinia D.H. Lawrence	0 reads
Sandstorms Peter Theroux	0 reads
The Road to Oxiana Robert Byron	0 reads
The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald Michael Hulse (Translator)	17 reads
The Pine Barrens John McPhee	1 read
The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia P.F. Kluge Fred Kluge	0 reads
Old Glory Jonathan Raban	0 reads
No Mercy Redmond O'Hanlon	1 read
The Nomad Isabelle Eberhardt	0 reads
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Matsuo Basho	8 reads
The Muses Are Heard Truman Capote	0 reads
Memorial Bryan Washington	39 reads
The Lycian Shore Freya Stark	0 reads
London Perceived V.S. Pritchett Evelyn Hofer	0 reads
Letters from Egypt Florence Nightingale	0 reads
Journey to Portugal José Saramago Amanda Hopkinson (Translator) Nick Caistor (Translator)	0 reads
I See By My Outfit Peter S. Beagle	0 reads
Iron & Silk Mark Salzman	0 reads
In the Country of Country Nicholas Dawidoff	1 read
In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin	15 reads
The impossible country Brian Hall	0 reads
Honouring High Places Junko Tabei Helen Y. Rolfe Yumiko Hiraki (Translator) Rieko Holtved (Translator)	1 read
GreatPlains Ian Frazier	3 reads
From a Chinese City From a Chinese City Gontran De Poncins	0 reads
The Fearful Void Geoffrey Moorhouse	0 reads
Farthest North Volume I Farthest North Volume I Fridtjof Nansen	0 reads
Eothen Alexander William Kinglake	1 read
Endurance Alfred Lansing	79 reads
The Emperor The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat Ryszard Kapuściński	0 reads
Dark Star Safari Paul Theroux	12 reads
Cross Country Robert Sullivan	0 reads
Blue highways William Least Heat-Moon	12 reads
An Area of Darkness V.S. Naipaul	1 read
Arabian Sands Wilfred Thesiger	1 read
Among the Cities Jan Morris	0 reads
Along the Ganges Ilija Trojanow Ranjit Hoskote (Translator)	0 reads
Wrong About Japan Peter Carey	3 reads
The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard	5 reads
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed	211 reads
Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple	206 reads
West with the Night Beryl Markham	11 reads
Travels with Myself and Another Martha Gellhorn	0 reads
Travels with a donkey Robert Louis Stevenson	0 reads
A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor	4 reads
The songlines Bruce Chatwin	8 reads
Lonely Planet Eric Newby	4 reads
Round Ireland with a Fridge Tony Hawks	13 reads
The Round House Louise Erdrich	40 reads
Rome and a Villa Eleanor Clark	0 reads
The Places In Between Rory Stewart	11 reads
The People in the Trees Hanya Yanagihara	34 reads
Notes from The Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia Edward Hoagland	0 reads
News from Tartary Peter Fleming	1 read
My First Summer in the Sierra John Muir	5 reads
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris	257 reads
Maximum City Suketu Mehta	6 reads
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin	32 reads
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain	13 reads
In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson	77 reads
Heidi Johanna Spyri Eileen Hall (Translator)	16 reads
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia Paul Theroux	12 reads
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson	176 reads
Exterminate All The Brutes Sven Lindqvist Joan Tate (Translator)	0 reads
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert	214 reads
Down the Nile Rosemary Mahoney	2 reads
Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell	59 reads
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville Scott A. Sandage George Lawrence (Translator)	4 reads
Corregidora Gayl Jones	4 reads
Chasing the Sea Tom Bissell	2 reads
Chasing the Monsoon Alexander Frater	0 reads
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Rebecca West	0 reads
A Barbarian in Asia Henri Michaux	0 reads
As They Were M.F.K. Fisher	1 read
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape Barry Lopez	8 reads

Details	Readers Count
Herodotus Herodotus	20 reads
India: A Wounded Civilization V.S. Naipaul	3 reads
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube Blair Braverman	6 reads
A View of the World: Selected Writings Norman Lewis	0 reads
Two Towns in Provence M.F.K. Fisher	0 reads
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville John Mandeville C.W.R.D. Moseley (Translator)	1 read
Tokyo Fiancée Amélie Nothomb Alison Anderson (Translator)	0 reads
To a Distant Island James McConkey	0 reads
This Is Happiness Niall Williams	6 reads
Slowly Down the Ganges Eric Newby Wanda Newby	1 read
Skating to Antarctica Jenny Diski	0 reads
Siren land Norman Douglas	0 reads
Shah of Shahs Ryszard Kapuściński William R. Brand (Translator) Ljubica Rosić (Translator) Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand (Translator)	4 reads
Sea and Sardinia D.H. Lawrence	0 reads
Sandstorms Peter Theroux	0 reads
The Road to Oxiana Robert Byron	0 reads
The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald Michael Hulse (Translator)	17 reads
The Pine Barrens John McPhee	1 read
The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia P.F. Kluge Fred Kluge	0 reads
Old Glory Jonathan Raban	0 reads
No Mercy Redmond O'Hanlon	1 read
The Nomad Isabelle Eberhardt	0 reads
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Matsuo Basho	8 reads
The Muses Are Heard Truman Capote	0 reads
Memorial Bryan Washington	39 reads
The Lycian Shore Freya Stark	0 reads
London Perceived V.S. Pritchett Evelyn Hofer	0 reads
Letters from Egypt Florence Nightingale	0 reads
Journey to Portugal José Saramago Amanda Hopkinson (Translator) Nick Caistor (Translator)	0 reads
I See By My Outfit Peter S. Beagle	0 reads
Iron & Silk Mark Salzman	0 reads
In the Country of Country Nicholas Dawidoff	1 read
In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin	15 reads
The impossible country Brian Hall	0 reads
Honouring High Places Junko Tabei Helen Y. Rolfe Yumiko Hiraki (Translator) Rieko Holtved (Translator)	1 read
GreatPlains Ian Frazier	3 reads
From a Chinese City From a Chinese City Gontran De Poncins	0 reads
The Fearful Void Geoffrey Moorhouse	0 reads
Farthest North Volume I Farthest North Volume I Fridtjof Nansen	0 reads
Eothen Alexander William Kinglake	1 read
Endurance Alfred Lansing	79 reads
The Emperor The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat Ryszard Kapuściński	0 reads
Dark Star Safari Paul Theroux	12 reads
Cross Country Robert Sullivan	0 reads
Blue highways William Least Heat-Moon	12 reads
An Area of Darkness V.S. Naipaul	1 read
Arabian Sands Wilfred Thesiger	1 read
Among the Cities Jan Morris	0 reads
Along the Ganges Ilija Trojanow Ranjit Hoskote (Translator)	0 reads
Wrong About Japan Peter Carey	3 reads
The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard	5 reads
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed	211 reads
Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple	206 reads
West with the Night Beryl Markham	11 reads
Travels with Myself and Another Martha Gellhorn	0 reads
Travels with a donkey Robert Louis Stevenson	0 reads
A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor	4 reads
The songlines Bruce Chatwin	8 reads
Lonely Planet Eric Newby	4 reads
Round Ireland with a Fridge Tony Hawks	13 reads
The Round House Louise Erdrich	40 reads
Rome and a Villa Eleanor Clark	0 reads
The Places In Between Rory Stewart	11 reads
The People in the Trees Hanya Yanagihara	34 reads
Notes from The Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia Edward Hoagland	0 reads
News from Tartary Peter Fleming	1 read
My First Summer in the Sierra John Muir	5 reads
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris	257 reads
Maximum City Suketu Mehta	6 reads
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin	32 reads
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain	13 reads
In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson	77 reads
Heidi Johanna Spyri Eileen Hall (Translator)	16 reads
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia Paul Theroux	12 reads
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson	176 reads
Exterminate All The Brutes Sven Lindqvist Joan Tate (Translator)	0 reads
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert	214 reads
Down the Nile Rosemary Mahoney	2 reads
Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell	59 reads
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville Scott A. Sandage George Lawrence (Translator)	4 reads
Corregidora Gayl Jones	4 reads
Chasing the Sea Tom Bissell	2 reads
Chasing the Monsoon Alexander Frater	0 reads
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Rebecca West	0 reads
A Barbarian in Asia Henri Michaux	0 reads
As They Were M.F.K. Fisher	1 read
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape Barry Lopez	8 reads

The Best Travel Books of All Time by Condé Nast

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