Travel Writers

These authors are best known for their travel writing. Select any one book from the list below – or a title of your own choice – and come prepared to share your thoughts.

Bill Bryson

• Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
  914 BRY
• Notes from a Small Island 
  914.1 BRY
• Bill Bryson’s African Diary 
  916.762 BRY
• The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
  917.3 BRY
• I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years
  917.30492 BRY
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
  917.4 BRY
• In a Sunburned Country    
  919.4 BRY

Tim Cahill

• Hold the Enlightenment     
  910.4 CAH
• Road Fever: A High-Speed Travelogue             
  917.04539 CAH
• Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone Park
  917.8752 CAH

Tony Horwitz

• Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
  910 HOR
• Baghdad Without a Map, and Other Misadventures in Arabia
  915.604 HOR

Pico Iyer

• Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World          
  910.4 IYE
• Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign                              
  910.4 IYE
• The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto      
  952.1864048 IYE
• Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East 
  950.42 IYE

Peter Mayle

• A Year in Provence
  914.49 MAY
• Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France  
  914.49 MAY
• Provence A - Z
  914.49 MAY
• Toujours Provence
  914.49 MAY
• Provence  
  944.9 MAY

Michael Palin

• Full Circle: One Man’s Journey by Air, Train, Boat and Occasionally Very Sore Feet Around the 50,000 Miles of the Pacific Rim
  910.4 PAL
• Around the World in 80 Days: Companion to the PBS Series 
  910.41 ARO
• Himalaya  
  915.496 PAL
• Sahara
  916.6 PAL

Jonathan Raban

• Coasting: A Private Journey   
  914.1 RAB
• Driving Home: An American Journey                                  
  917.3 RAB
• Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings                        
  917.982 RAB
• Bad Land: An American Romance                                      
  978 RAB

Tahir Shah

• Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  793.8 SHA
• In Search of King Solomon’s Mines                                     
  916.3 SHA
• In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams             
  916.4 SHA
• The Caliph’s House: [A Year in Casablanca]                       
  916.438 SHA
• Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru             
  918.5 SHA

Jeffrey Tayler

• Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing    
  915.0443 TAY
• Glory in a Camel’s Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara 
  916.48 TAY
• Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel
  916.6 TAY

Paul Theroux

• The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road  
  910.4 THE
• To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux     
  910.4 THE
• The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean 
  910.91822 THE
• Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar      
  915 THE
• The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia              
  915 THE
• The Imperial Way
  915.40452 THE
• Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town           
  916 THE
• The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific                 
  919.504 THE

J. Maarten Troost

• Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid
  915.1 TRO
• Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu         
  919.595 TRO
• The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific                        
  919.681 TRO

Sarah Vowell

• Assassination Vacation
  973 VOW
• The Partly Cloudy Patriot  
  973 VOW
• Unfamiliar Fishes 
  996.9 VOW

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