501 Must-Read Books (Emma Beare, 2006)Travel Writing

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From the introduction to "501 Must-Read Books": "The recommendations for inclusion in this comprehensive book were made by a bibliophile and writer with a peerless reputation, but the reviews vis mere themselves were compiled by lecturers, writers and book lovers, sharing their pleasure or surprise or even indignation with the rest of us." vis mindre
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah (1355) af Ibn Battuta
Le poisson-scorpion (1982) af Nicolas Bouvier
The Road to Oxiana (1937) af Robert Byron
I Patagonien (1977) af Bruce Chatwin
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) af Charles Darwin
Over alle bjerge til Lhassa (1927) af Alexandra David-Néel
On the Narrow Road: A Journey into Lost Japan (1989) af Lesley Downer
Syv år i Tibet : mit liv ved Dalai Lamas hof (1952) af Heinrich Harrer
Kon-Tiki ekspeditionen (1948) af Thor Heyerdahl
The Purple Land (1885) af W. H. Hudson
Scott & Amundsen (1979) af Roland Huntford
Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East (1989) af Pico Iyer
Journals of the Western Islands (1775) af Samuel Johnson
Eothen (1844) af Alexander William Kinglake
The Seasick Whale: An Israeli Abroad (1965) af Ephraim Kishon
En rose til Andalusien (1970) af Laurie Lee
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands (1950) af Patrick Leigh Fermor
Golden Earth: Travels in Burma (1952) af Norman Lewis
På langfart med Snarken (1908) af Jack London
Arctic Dreams (1986) af Barry Lopez
Donau : en følsom rejse fra den store flods kilder til Sortehavet (1989) af Claudio Magris
The Snow Leopard (1978) af Peter Matthiessen
Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone (1980) af Jan Morris
Never Cry Wolf (1963) af Farley Mowat
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981) af V. S. Naipaul
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) af Eric Newby
Roads to Santiago (1992) af Cees Nooteboom
Into the Heart of Borneo (1984) af Redmond O'Hanlon
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1907) af Francis Parkman
The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) af Marco Polo
Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson (1648) af Nicholas Rankin
Sailing Alone Around the World (1900) af Joshua Slocum
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863) af John Hanning Speke
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels (1934) af Freya Stark
På rejse med Charley (1962) af John Steinbeck
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) af Robert Louis Stevenson
The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) af Paul Theroux
Tschiffely's Ride (1933) af A. F. Tschiffely
A Tramp Abroad (1880) af Mark Twain
On Fiji Islands (1900) af Ronald Wright

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