1
In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin
1977
2
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
1998
3
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson
1995
4
In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson
2000
5
Neither Here nor There
Bill Bryson
1991
6
The Lost Continent
Bill Bryson
1989
7
The Great Railway Bazaar
Paul Theroux
1975
8
Dark Star Safari
Paul Theroux
2002
9
The Old Patagonian Express
Paul Theroux
1979
10
Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
2006
11
Wild
Cheryl Strayed
2012
12
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
1996
13
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
1997
14
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor
1977
15
Between the Woods and the Water
Patrick Leigh Fermor
1986
17
Blue Highways
William Least Heat-Moon
1982
18
Seven Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer
1952
19
The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen
1978
20
Shadow of the Silk Road
Colin Thubron
2006
21
In Siberia
Colin Thubron
1999
22
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
1962
23
Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain
1869
24
West with the Night
Beryl Markham
1942
25
Full Tilt
Dervla Murphy
1965
26
Venice
Jan Morris
1960
27
The Places in Between
Rory Stewart
2004
28
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
1959
29
Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey
1968
31
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
1957
32
A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle
1989
33
Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes
1996
34
Round Ireland with a Fridge
Tony Hawks
1998
35
The Beach
Alex Garland
1996
36
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
2003
37
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
1988
38
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
1964
39
The Motorcycle Diaries
Ernesto Che Guevara
1995
40
Tracks
Robyn Davidson
1980
41
Terra Incognita
Sara Wheeler
1996
42
Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Mark Adams
2011
43
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
1959
44
In the Heart of the Sea
Nathaniel Philbrick
2000
45
South
Ernest Shackleton
1919
46
The White Darkness
David Grann
2018
47
The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean
1998
48
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
2005
50
River Town
Peter Hessler
2001
51
Country Driving
Peter Hessler
2010
52
Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler
2006
53
Tokyo Vice
Jake Adelstein
2009
54
The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuscinski
1978
55
Shah of Shahs
Ryszard Kapuscinski
1982
56
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
1938
57
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
1933
58
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
1937
59
A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid
1988
60
An Area of Darkness
V.S. Naipaul
1964
61
The Sex Lives of Cannibals
J. Maarten Troost
2004
62
Getting Stoned with Savages
J. Maarten Troost
2006
63
The Caliph's House
Tahir Shah
2006
64
The Old Ways
Robert Macfarlane
2012
65
The Wild Places
Robert Macfarlane
2007
66
Mountains of the Mind
Robert Macfarlane
2003
67
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Paul Theroux
2008
68
Riding the Iron Rooster
Paul Theroux
1988
69
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Bill Bryson
1999
70
McCarthy's Bar
Pete McCarthy
2000
71
Toujours Provence
Peter Mayle
1991
72
Bella Tuscany
Frances Mayes
1999
73
A Fortune-Teller Told Me
Tiziano Terzani
1995
74
The Fear
Peter Godwin
2010
75
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Peter Godwin
2006
76
Balkan Ghosts
Robert D. Kaplan
1993
77
Italian Hours
Henry James
1909
78
Pictures from Italy
Charles Dickens
1846
79
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Jan Morris
2001
80
Muddling Through in Madagascar
Dervla Murphy
1985
81
The Last Place on Earth
Roland Huntford
1979
82
Rowing the Atlantic
Roz Savage
2009
83
The Ice at the End of the World
Jon Gertner
2019
84
Chasing Che
Patrick Symmes
2000
85
In Arabian Nights
Tahir Shah
2008
86
Travels in Hyperreality
Umberto Eco
1986
87
The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo
1300
88
Among the Believers
V.S. Naipaul
1981
89
Red Dust A Path Through China
Ma Jian
2001
90
The Feather Thief
Kirk Wallace Johnson
2018
91
Mayflower
Nathaniel Philbrick
2006
92
A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain
1880
93
The Ends of the Earth
Robert D. Kaplan
1996
94
The Soccer War
Ryszard Kapuscinski
1978
95
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
1926
96
Wanderlust A History of Walking
Rebecca Solnit
2000
97
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
1974
98
The Songlines
Bruce Chatwin
1987
99
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1922
100
An Empire of Ice
Edward Larson
2011
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