The Best Travel Books of All Time by Condé Nast

Updated 4 months ago
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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	4.26	44 reads
Among the Cities Jan Morris	0	0 reads
An Area of Darkness V.S. Naipaul	5	1 read
Arabian Sands Wilfred Thesiger	4	1 read
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape Barry Lopez	4.21	8 reads
As They Were M.F.K. Fisher	4	1 read
A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor	4.5	5 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	4	12 reads
Chasing the Monsoon Alexander Frater	0	0 reads
Chasing the Sea Tom Bissell	0	2 reads
Corregidora Gayl Jones	3.6	5 reads
Cross Country Robert Sullivan	0	0 reads
Dark Star Safari Paul Theroux	4.29	14 reads
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville Harvey Mansfield Jr. (Translator) Delba Winthrop (Translator)	3	6 reads
Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell	3.95	86 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	3.32	270 reads
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing	4.53	121 reads
Eothen Alexander William Kinglake	2	1 read
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	3.97	224 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 Eileen Hall (Translator)	4.17	21 reads
Herodotus Herodotus	4.15	31 reads
Honouring High Places Junko Tabei Helen Y. Rolfe Yumiko Hiraki (Translator) Rieko Holtved (Translator)	5	1 read
In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson	4.04	98 reads
India: A Wounded Civilization V.S. Naipaul	3.33	3 reads
In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin	3.5	19 reads
In the Country of Country Nicholas Dawidoff	0	1 read
Iron & Silk Mark Salzman	0	0 reads
I See By My Outfit Peter S. Beagle	0	0 reads
Journey to Portugal José Saramago Amanda Hopkinson (Translator) Nick Caistor (Translator)	0	0 reads
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	6 reads
Memorial Bryan Washington	3.41	46 reads
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris	4.03	297 reads
My First Summer in the Sierra John Muir	4.29	8 reads
News from Tartary Peter Fleming	5	1 read
No Mercy Redmond O'Hanlon	5	1 read
Notes from The Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia Edward Hoagland	0	0 reads
Old Glory Jonathan Raban	0	0 reads
Rome and a Villa Eleanor Clark	0	0 reads
Round Ireland with a Fridge Tony Hawks	3.94	21 reads
Sandstorms Peter Theroux	0	0 reads
Sea and Sardinia D.H. Lawrence	0	0 reads
Shah of Shahs Ryszard Kapuściński William R. Brand (Translator) Ljubica Rosić (Translator) Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand (Translator)	4	4 reads
Siren land Norman Douglas	0	0 reads
Skating to Antarctica Jenny Diski	0	0 reads
Slowly Down the Ganges Eric Newby Wanda Newby	2	1 read
The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia P.F. Kluge Fred Kluge	0	0 reads
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat Ryszard Kapuściński	0	0 reads
The Fearful Void Geoffrey Moorhouse	0	0 reads
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia Paul Theroux	3.7	12 reads
The impossible country Brian Hall	3.5	1 read
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain	3.73	17 reads
The Lycian Shore Freya Stark	0	0 reads
The Muses Are Heard Truman Capote	0	0 reads
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Matsuo Basho	4.17	8 reads
The Nomad Isabelle Eberhardt	0	0 reads
The People in the Trees Hanya Yanagihara	3.5	50 reads
The Pine Barrens John McPhee	4	1 read
The Places In Between Rory Stewart	4	11 reads
The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald Michael Hulse (Translator)	4.38	17 reads
The Road to Oxiana Robert Byron	0	0 reads
The Round House Louise Erdrich	4.16	50 reads
The songlines Bruce Chatwin	3.88	9 reads
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville John Mandeville C.W.R.D. Moseley (Translator)	4	1 read
The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard	3.17	8 reads
This Is Happiness Niall Williams	4.17	6 reads
To a Distant Island James McConkey	0	0 reads
Tokyo Fiancée Amélie Nothomb Alison Anderson (Translator)	0	0 reads
Travels with a donkey Robert Louis Stevenson	0	0 reads
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	6 reads
West with the Night Beryl Markham	4.18	19 reads
Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple	3.8	267 reads
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed	3.79	274 reads
Wrong About Japan Peter Carey	2	3 reads