Travel Books Library

I love reading and books and if you are here, I hope you do too. I also enjoy good movies and documentaries, especially travel, adventure, sci-fi (time travel, space) and exploration related.

I am going to dedicate this entire page to films and books. This page is the largest online library of travel books and movies.

Travel Books Library

There are literally thousands of great books and movies that fall under the travel and adventure genre, and if time permits, do explore as many as you can, but for the practical purpose (thinking about adding real value to readers).

I am going to talk about and recommend my selection of the best “travel and adventure” books and movies. I hope, you enjoy this library as much I do. Occasionally, I will go on to explain a movie plot (for example, The Fountain and Space Travel) or start a discussion page on a great practical book such as Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales.

But, for the most part, this page will look like a books and movies library. The ultimate library. As of today, we have over 300 titles.

Travel Books & Movies

If you want to join The Art of Travel Book & Movie Club, just drop us an email. We will share the best and most helpful travel books, free destination guides, movies, and documentaries. We also hold video discussions on a book or movie on our YouTube channel. We talk about the alternative endings, plot, inner meaning, lessons learned or extracted and much much more. (Just as you would do in real world in a real book club).

The best part is you can now participate by commenting and we will pick up some of the comments and discuss along with you in the next video. Or, you can make a video response and post it on your YouTube channel and we can talk back and forth. It’s a lot of fun. Happy reading! Happy watching! Happy Travels! Sal, Neha & Team, The Art of Travel


Best Travel Books

Old Classics

Odyssey by Homer

Anabasis (355 BC) by Xenophon

True History by Lucian of Samosata

Description of Greece by Pausanias

The Moselle (370) by Decimus Magnus Ausonius

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Travels in India and Ceylon (414) by Faxian Concerning

His Return (De reditu suo, 416) by Rutilius Claudius Namatianus

Christian Topography (550) by Cosmas Indicopleustes

Great Tang Records on the Western Regions (646) by Xuanzang

The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law (847) by Ennin

The face of the Earth (Ṣūrat al-’Arḍ) by Ibn Hawqal

A letter to the king al-Saqaliba (Kitab ila Mulk al-Saqaliba, 921) by Ahmad ibn Fadlan

Safarnama (1046) by Nasir Khusraw

The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (1185) by Abu ad-Din al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr

Journey Through Wales (Itinerarium Cambriae, 1191) by Gerald of Wales

Dictionary of Countries (Mu’jam Al-Buldan) by Yaqut al-Hamawi

Ystoria Mongalorum (c. 1240) by Giovanni da Pian del Carpin

The Era of Exploration

The Travels of Marco Polo (Il Milione, 1298) by Marco Polo

A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling (Rihla, 1355) by Ibn Battuta

A Journey Beyond the Three Seas by Afanasy Nikitin

Journal of the first voyage by Christopher Columbus

Baburnama by Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire

The book of Duarte Barbosa by Duarte Barbosa

An account of the first circumnavigation of the globe (Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo, 1524) by Antonio Pigafetta

Book of Navigation (Kitab-ı Bahriye, 1553) by Piri Reis

La Relación (1542) by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Pilgrimage (Peregrinação, 1614) by  Fernão Mendes Pinto

Navigations and Travels (Navigationi et Viaggi, 1559) by Giovanni Battista Ramusio

The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589) by Richard Hakluyt

The Mirror of Countries (Mirat ul Memalik) by Seydi Ali Reis

The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet (1591) by  Anthony Knivet

Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages, (1613) by Samuel Purchas

The historie of Man (1619) by  by Samuel Purchas

A History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others (4 vols.), (1625) by Samuel Purchas Coryat’s

Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels (1611) by Thomas Coryat

History of Ethiopia (1620) by Pedro Páez

Seyahatname by Evliya

Çelebi Travel to the Moluccas and the Middle East Indies (Reise Nach Den Molukken Und Vorder-Indien, 1646) by Johann Sigmund Wurffbain

Les voyages et observations du sieur de La Boullaye Le Gouz (1657) by François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz

A Voyage to East-India (1655) by Edward Terry

The travels of Signor Pietro Della Valle by Pietro Della Valle

Itinerário by Jerónimo

Lobo Travels in the Mogul Empire (1671) by François Bernier

Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1675) by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient byJean Chardin

A Visit to Kashima Shrine (Kashima Kiko, 1687) by Matsuo Basho

Record of a Travel-Worn Satchel (Oi no Kobumi, or Utatsu Kiko, 1688) by Matsuo Basho

A Visit to Sarashina Village (Sarashina Kiko, 1688) by Matsuo Basho

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (trans. 1967) by Matsuo Basho

A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea (1723) by George Shelvocke

A tour thro’ the whole island of Great Britain (3 vol.) (1724-1727) by Daniel Defoe

Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift

Prisoner of Infidels (Gavurların Esiri, 1724) by Osman Aga of Temesvar

Relación histórica del viage a la América Meridional (1748) by Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa

Turkish Embassy Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu

Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755) by Henry Fielding

Travels through France and Italy (1766) by Tobias Smollett

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) by Laurence Sterne

Le voyage autour du monde, par la frégate La Boudeuse, et la flûte L’Étoile (1772) by Louis Antoine de Bougainville

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) by Samuel Johnson

An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli (1768) by James Boswell

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson (1785) by James Boswell

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790) by James Bruce

Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789 by Thomas Jefferson

A Short Residence in Sweden (1796) by Mary Wollstonecraft

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) by Mary Wollstonecraft

The Shank’s Mare (Tokaidochu Hizakurige) by Jippensha Ikku

Spaziergang nach Syrakus (1803) by Johann Gottfried Seume

Letters on Silesia: Written During a Tour Through That Country in the Years 1800-1801 (1804) by John Quincy Adams

Italienische Reise (1816–1817) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia by Sir Henry Holland

Rome, Naples et Florence (1817) by Marie-Henri Beyle

Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland (1836) by James Fenimore Cooper

Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine (1836) by James Fenimore Cooper

Gleanings in Europe: England (1837) by James Fenimore Cooper

Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia (1838) by Marquis de Custine

Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) by Frances Trollope

The Alhambra : a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards (1832) by Washington Irving

Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) by Mary Shelley

A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia and Palestine (1846) by Isabella Frances Romer

Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838) by Flora Tristan

Promenades in London (1840) by Flora Tristan

An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, 1834) by Rifa’a el-Tahtawi

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (1862–1889) by Theodor Fontane

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope (1846) by Lady Hester Stanhope

Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope (1847) by Lady Hester Stanhope

The Bible in Spain (1843) by George Borrow

Wild Wales (1862) by George Borrow

Roughing it in the Bush (1852) by Susanna Moodie

Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa and the Holy Land (1837) by John Lloyd

Stephens Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Poland (1838) by John Lloyd

Stephens Incidents of Travel in Central American, Chiapas and Yucatan (1841) by John Lloyd

Stephens Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843) by John Lloyd

Stephens Journey to America (1831–1832) by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Improvisatore (1835) by Hans Christian Andersen

The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) by Charles Darwin

Eothen (1844) by Alexander Kinglake

American Notes (1842) by Charles Dickens

Pictures from Italy (1844–1845) by Charles Dickens

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) by Herman Melville

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) by Herman Melville

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour (1972) by Gustave Flaubert

The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace

The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863) by Henry Walter Bates

Station Life in New Zealand (1870) by Mary Anne Barker

A Year’s Housekeeping in South Africa (1880) by Mary Anne Barker

The Englishwoman in America (1856) by Isabella Bird

The Hawaiian Archipelago (1875) by Isabella Bird

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (1883) by Isabella Bird

Korea and her Neighbours (1898) by Isabella Bird

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899) by Isabella Bird

His Life and Adventrures (1889) by Ármin Vámbéry

Icelandic Journals (1911) by William Morris

The Innocents Abroad (1869) by Mark Twain

Roughing It (1872) by Mark Twain

A Tramp Abroad (1880) by Mark Twain

Following the Equator (1897) by Mark Twain

Fresh Fields (1884) by John Burroughs

Certain Delightful English Towns (1906) by William Dean Howells

A Little Tour in France (1884) by Henry James

English Hours (1905) by Henry James

The American Scene (1907) by Henry James

Italian Hours (1909) by Henry James

The Modern Era of Travel

Sailing Alone Around the World (1899) by Joshua Slocum

An Inland Voyage (1878) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Silverado Squatters (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (1888) by Theodore Roosevelt

Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) by Theodore Roosevelt

Pandita Ramabai’s American Encounter: The Peoples of the United States (1889) by Pandita Ramabai

Enchanted India (1898) by Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch

Travels in West Africa (1897) by Mary Kingsley

Yosemite Trails (1911) by J. Smeaton Chase

California Coast Trails (1913) by J. Smeaton Chase

California Desert Trails (1919) by J. Smeaton Chase

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890) by Nellie Bly

Au Pied du Sinaï (1898) by Georges Clemenceau

La 628-E8 (1908) by Octave Mirbeau

Letters from Niš Regarding Harems (1897) by Jelena Dimitrijevic

Letters from Salonica on Young Turk Revolution (1918) by Jelena Dimitrijevic

Letters from India (1928) by Jelena Dimitrijevic

Letters from Egypt (1929) by Jelena Dimitrijevic

The New World, alias: In America for a Year (1934) by Jelena Dimitrijevic

The Passing of the Aborigines (1938) by Daisy Bates

Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908 (English trans. 1940) by Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Old Calabria (1915) by Norman Douglas

Persian Pictures (1894) by Gertrude Bell

Syria: The Desert and the Sown (1907) by Gertrude Bell

Voyage au Congo (1927) by André Gide

Le retour de Tchad (1928) by André Gide

Retour de l’U. R. S. S. (1936) by André Gide

Retouches â mon retour de l’U. R. S. S (1937) by André Gide

Our Hispanic Southwest (1916) by Ernest Peixotto

The Path To Rome (1902) by Hilaire Belloc

On a Chinese Screen (1922) by W. Somerset Maugham

The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (1903) by Yone Noguchi

Letters from Norway (Pisma iz Norveške, 1914) by Isidora Sekulic

Sea and Sardinia (1921) by D. H. Lawrence

Out of Africa (1938) by Karen Blixen

My little Chinese: A Novel From China (Moj mali Kitajec: roman iz Kitajske, 1921) by Alma Karlin

Urok Južnega morja / Im Banne der Sudsee (1930) by Alma Karlin

Mistic of the South Sea; Polynesia, Melanesia- Micronesia (1931) by Alma Karlin

Malik (1932) by Alma Karlin

The Tears of the Moon: A Story from Peru (Mesečeve solze: zgodba iz Peruja, 1935) by Alma Karlin

Four girls in the wind of destiny: A story from South Sea (Štiri dekleta v vetru usode: Zgodba z Južnega morja, 1943) by Alma Karlin

Nabob’s Side Wife (Nabobova stranska žena, 1937) by Alma Karlin

Little Siamese (Mala Siamka, 1937) by Alma Karlin

The Youngest Grandson of the Honorable I Čaa: A Novel from China (Najmlajši vnuk častitljivega I Čaa: novela iz Kitajske, 1948) by Alma Karlin

O Joni San: Japanese novels (O Joni San: Japonske novele, 2006) by Alma Karlin

As a Prisoner Among the Head Hunters in New Guinea (Kot ujetnica pri lovcih na glavo na Novi Gvineji , 1960) by Alma Karlin

Samotno potovanje / Einsame Weltreise (1969) by Alma Karlin

The Heart of London (1925) by Henry Vollam Morton

In Search of England (1927) by Henry Vollam Morton

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) by Rebecca West

The Valleys of the Assassins (1934) by Freya Stark

The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut (1936) by Freya Stark

Seen In The Hadhramaut (1938) by Freya Stark

A Winter in Arabia (1940) by Freya Stark

Ionia a Quest (1954) by Freya Stark

The Lycian Shore (1956) by Freya Stark

Alexander’s Path (1958) by Freya Stark

Riding to the Tigris (1959) by Freya Stark

A Journey From Volga to Ganga (Volga Se Ganga, 1944) by Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan

The honorable picnic (L’honorable partie de campagne, 1924) by Thomas Raucat

From Shanghai to Canton (De Shang-Haï à Canton, 1927) by Thomas Raucat

Only the Ports Are Loyal to Us (Alleen de havens zijn ons trouw, 1992) by J. Slauerhoff

Eight Years in Tibet (1983) by Peter Aufschnaiter

A Moveable Feast (1964) by Ernest Hemingway

And a Right Good Crew (1958) by Emily Kimbrough

Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India (1936) by Gordon Sinclair

The Royal Road to Romance (1925) by Richard Halliburton

The Glorious Adventure (1927) by Richard Halliburton

New Worlds to Conquer (1929) by Richard Halliburton

The Flying Carpet (1932) by Richard Halliburton

Seven League Boots (1935) by Richard Halliburton

My Several Worlds (1954) by Pearl S. Buck

A Bridge For Passing (1962) by Pearl S. Buck

The People of Japan (1966) by Pearl S. Buck

China as I See It (1970) by Pearl S. Buck

Out in the Blue (1927) by Vivienne de Watteville

Speak to the Earth: Wanderings and Reflections among Elephants and Mountains (1937) by Vivienne de Watteville

A Russian Journal (1948) by John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962) by John Steinbeck

The Silent Traveller Series (11 Vol.) by Chiang Yee Waugh

Abroad: Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh

Ninety-Two Days: Travels in Guiana and Brazil (1932) by Evelyn Waugh

The Aran Islands (1907) by J.M. Synge

Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara (1911) by J.M. Synge

Journey Without Maps (1936) by Graham Greene

The Spanish Labyrinth (1943) by Gerald Brenan

The Face of Spain (1950)  by Gerald Brenan

The Road to Oxiana (1937) by Robert Byron

The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958) by Laurens van der Post

Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections (1968) by James Michener

Tramp Royale (1992) by Robert A. Heinlein

Thrilling Cities (1963) by Ian Fleming

How to Cook a Wolf (1942) by M. F. K. Fisher

Map of Another Town: A Memoir of Provence (1964) by M. F. K. Fisher

Dubious Honors (1988) by M. F. K. Fisher

Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon (1991) by M. F. K. Fisher

Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir (1978) by Martha Gellhorn

Yallah (1957) by Paul Bowles

Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963) by Paul Bowles

Arabian Sands (1959) by Wilfred Thesiger

The Marsh Arabs (1964) by Wilfred Thesiger

Return to the Marshes (1977) by Gavin Young

Iraq: Land of Two Rivers (1980) by Gavin Young

Slow Boats to China (1981) by Gavin Young

Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey (1983) by Gavin Young

Slow Boats Home (1985) by Gavin Young

Prospero’s Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra (1945) by Lawrence Durrell

Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953) by Lawrence Durrell

Bitter Lemons (1957) by Lawrence Durrell

Seven Years in Tibet (1952) by Heinrich Harrer

People of the Reeds (1957) by Gavin Maxwell

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (1953) by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (1966) by Patrick Leigh Fermor

A Time Of Gifts (1977) by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Between the Woods and the Water (1986) by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Three Letters from the Andes (1991) by Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Broken Road (2013) by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Viaje a la Alcarria (1948) by Camilo José Cela

Turkish Reflections: A Biography of Place (1991) by Mary Lee Settle

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) by Eric Newby

Post to Never-Never Land (Poland, 1968) by Lucjan Wolanowski

Heat and fever (Poland, 1970) by Lucjan Wolanowski

Indija Koromandija (1962) by Jože Javoršek

Hodoljublja (1982) by Zulfikar “Zuko” Džumhur

Nekrolog jednoj caršiji (1958) by Zulfikar “Zuko” Džumhur

Letters from Asia (Pisma iz Azije, 1973) by Zulfikar “Zuko” Džumhur

Letters from Africa & Europe (Pisma iz Afrike i Evrope) by Zulfikar “Zuko” Džumhur

Centennial Tales (Stogodišnje price) by Zulfikar “Zuko” Džumhur

Voyage With White “Lada” (Putovanje bijelom Ladom, 1982) by Zulfikar “Zuko” Džumhur

Adakale by Zulfikar “Zuko” Džumhur

Green Carpet of Montenegro by Momo Kapor and Zulfikar “Zuko” Džumhur

My Family and Other Animals (1956) by Gerald Durrell

Fillets of Plaice (1971) by Gerald Durrell

Coast to Coast (1956) by Jan Morris

Oxford (1965) by Jan Morris

The Matter of Wales (1984) by Jan Morris

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001) by Jan Morris

America (1986) by Jean Baudrillard

The Motorcycle Diaries (1952) by Che Guevara

Peter Klepec in America (1971) by Primož Kozak

Campos de Nijar (1959) by Juan Goytisolo

Jupiter’s Travels (1979) by Ted Simon

Another Day of Life (1976) by Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Soccer War (1978) by Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (1978) by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Shah of Shahs (1982) by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Imperium (1993) by Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Shadow of the Sun (2001) by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Berlijnse Notities (1990) by Cees Nooteboom

Roads to Santiago (1992) by Cees Nooteboom

Nootebooms Hotel (2002) by Cees Nooteboom

Italian Days (1989) by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Paradise News (1991) by David Lodge

Moskva–Ptushki (1973) by Venedict Yerofeyev

Blue Highways: A Journey into America (1982) by William Least

Heat-Moon A Year in Provence (1989) by Peter Mayle

Mirror to Damascus (1967) by Colin Thubron

In Patagonia (1977) by Bruce Chatwin

The Songlines (1987)  by Bruce Chatwin

What Am I Doing Here (1988)  by Bruce Chatwin

Under the Tuscan Sun (1996) by Frances Mayes

The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) by Paul Theroux

Old Glory: An American Voyage (1981) by Jonathan Raban

Travels (1988) by Michael Crichton

Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian

Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone (1987) by Mary Morris

Wall to Wall: from Beijing to Berlin by Rail (1991) by Mary Morris

Angels & Aliens: A Journey West (1999) by Mary Morris

The River Queen (2007) by Mary Morris

Sahara (2002) by Michael Palin

Best Travel Writing (2005) by Tom Miller

A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration (2004) by Tom Miller

Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader (2003) by Tom Miller

Travelers’ Tales – Cuba (2001) by Tom Miller

Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America’s Southwest (2000) by Tom Miller

Trading With the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro’s Cuba (1992) by Tom Miller

The Panama Hat Trail: A Journey From South America (1986) by Tom Miller

Arizona: The Land and the People (1986) by Tom Miller

On the Border: Portraits of America’s Southwestern Frontier (1981) by Tom Miller

A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard (Ajia kaido kiko: umi wa toshi de aru, 2002) by Mikiro Sasaki

An Evening Among Headhunters: And Other Reports from Roads Less Taken (1999) by Lawrence Millman

Last Places: A Journey in the North (2000) by Lawrence Millman

Northern Latitudes (2000) by Lawrence Millman

Lost in the Arctic: Explorations on the Edge (2002) by Lawrence Millman

Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia (1999) by Chris Stewart

A Parrot in the Pepper Tree (2002) by Chris Stewart

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society (2007) by Chris Stewart

The Palace Under the Alps (1985) by Bill Bryson

Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe (1992) by Bill Bryson

Notes from a Small Island (1995) by Bill Bryson

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1999) by Bill Bryson

In a Sunburned Country (2001) by Bill Bryson

Last Chance to See (1990) by Douglas Adams

From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983) by Vikram Seth

Guadalajara (1997) by Quim Monzó

Barcelona und andere Erzählungen (2007) by Quim Monzó

The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa (1996) by Neil Peart

Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road (2002) by Neil Peart

Traveling Music: The Soundtrack of My Life and Times (2004) by Neil Peart

Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand (1997) by Kenn Kaufman

Stalin’s Nose (1992) by Rory MacLean

The Oatmeal Ark (1997) by Rory MacLean

Under the Dragon (1998) by Rory MacLean

Next Exit Magic Kingdom (2000) by Rory MacLean

Falling for Icarus (2004) by Rory MacLean

Magic Bus (2006) by Rory MacLean

Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro’s Cuba (2001) by Christopher Paul Baker

Savages, The Life and Killing of the Yanomami (1992) by Dennison Berwick

Amazon (1990) by Dennison Berwick

A Walk Along the Ganges (1986) by Dennison Berwick

One for the Road: An Outback Adventure (1987) by Tony Horwitz

Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia (1991) by Tony Horwitz

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (1998) by Tony Horwitz

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (2002) by Tony Horwitz

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (2008) by Tony Horwitz

Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000) by Rebecca Solnit

A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005) by Rebecca Solnit

Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (2010) by Rebecca Solnit

Siberian Dawn: A Journey Across the New Russia (1999) by Jeffrey Tayler

Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness (2000) by Jeffrey Tayler

Glory in a Camel’s Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara (2003) by Jeffrey Tayler

Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel (2005) by Jeffrey Tayler

River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia’s Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny (2006) by Jeffrey Tayler

Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan’s Next Generation (1995) by Karl Taro

Greenfeld In Xanadu: A Quest (1989) by William Dalrymple

From the Holy Mountain (1994) by William Dalrymple

Wild (2006) by Jay Griffiths

Beyond the Devil’s Teeth (1995) by Tahir Shah

Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1998) by Tahir Shah

Trail of Feathers (2001) by Tahir Shah

In Search of King Solomon’s Mines (2002) by Tahir Shah

House of the Tiger King (2004) by Tahir Shah

The Caliph’s House (2006) by Tahir Shah

In Arabian Nights (2008) by Tahir Shah

Travels With Myself: Collected Work (2011) by Tahir Shah

Timbuctoo (2012) by Tahir Shah

Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China (2000) by Guy Delisle

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2003) by Guy Delisle

Burma Chronicles (2007) by Guy Delisle

Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City (2011) by Guy Delisle

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (2004) by J. Maarten Troost

Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (2006) by J. Maarten Troost

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything, Across Italy, India and Indonesia (2006) by Elizabeth Gilbert

Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop But Never Get Off (2009) by Bishwanath Ghosh

The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu (2004) by Kira Salak

Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (2003) by Tom Bissell

The Year of Spring: The Travel What Lasts a Year (2012) by Vyacheslav Krasko


Travel & Adventure Movies

Everest (2015 film)

Into the Wild (2007 film)

The Intouchables (2011 film)

The Martian (2015 film)

The Revenant (2015 film)

Interstellar (2014 film)

Wild (2014 film)

Tracks (2013 Documentary)

The Lord of the Rings Series (film)

The Hobbit Series (film)

Earth (2007 Documentary)

Oceans (2009 Documentary)

Bears (2014 Documentary)

K2 (1991 Documentary)

K2: Siren of the Himalayas (2012 Documentary)

The Summit (2012 Documentary)

Beyond the Edge (2013 Documentary)

Everest (1998 Documentary)

Touching the Void (2003 Documentary)

North Face (2008 Documentary)

180° South (2010 Documentary)

First Ascent (2006 Documentary)

The Grey (2011 film)

Desert Runners (2013 Documentary)

Encounters at the End of the World (2007 Documentary)

Where the Trail Ends (2012 Documentary)

Third Man on the Mountain (1959 film)

Mile… Mile & a Half (2013 Documentary)

Cast Away (2000 film)

Castaway on the Moon (2009 film)

The Road (2009 film)

Man on Wire (2008 Documentary)

Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)

Chasing Ice (2012 Documentary)

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997 TV Movie)

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010 Documentary)

King Lines (2007 Documentary)

Valley Uprising (2014 Documentary)

Salt (2009 Documentary)

Light of the Himalaya (2006 Documentary)

Cold (2011 Documentary)

Mount St. Elias (2009 Documentary)

Into the Mind (2013 Documentary)

The Broken Moon (2010 Documentary)

Hit the Road: India (2013 Documentary)

Thicker Than Water (2000 Documentary)

The Way (2010 film)

Never Cry Wolf (1983 film)

The Snow Walker (2003 film)

Grizzly Man (2005 Documentary)

Easy Rider (1969 film)

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004 film)

2000 Miles to Maine: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail (2004 Documentary)

Mountain Patrol (2004 film)

Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013 Documentary)

They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain (2012 Documentary)

Himalaya (1999 film)

Maidentrip (2013 Documentary)

City of God (film)

Indiana Jones Series (film)

The Mummy Series (film)

Lawrence of Arabia (film)

Lost in Translation (film)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (film)

Travelers and Magicians (2003 film)

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