Tuesday, July 20, 2010

National Geographic Traverler’s 'Around theWorld in 80 Books' - Part II

Yesterday, I gave you the first 30 books on National Geographic Traverler’s “Around theWorld in 80 Books” recommended reading list. For those of you who missed yesterday’s post, you might want to read it before reading today’s installment.
In creating this list of classic travel books, the magazine’s editors asked “dozens of travelers (writers, photographers, explorers, editors, and others) to name the books that have most enriched their senses of place and best informed their peregrinations.”
Here are selections 31-80:
31. A House in Bali by Colin McPhee
32. In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale
33. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
34. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
35. In Siberia by Colin Thubron
36. In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon
37. In Tuscany by Frances Mayes
38. Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman
39. Last Places: A Journey in the North
40. London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
41. Looking for Lovedu: A Woman’s Journey Through Africa by Ann Jones
42. Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956 by Gavin Maxwell
43. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
44. Motoring with Mohammed: Journey’s to Yemen and the Red Sea by Eric Hansen
45. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
46. Nomads of Niger by Carol Beckwith
47. Nothing to Declare: Memoris of a Woman Traveling Alone
48. Off the Rails in Phnom Penh: Into the Dark Heart of Guns, Girls and Ganja by Amit Gilboa
49. Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban
50. The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux
51. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
52. The Panama Hat Trail by Tom Miller
53. The Ponds of Kalambayi by Mike Tidwell
54. The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester
55. Road Fever: A High-Speed Travelogue
56. The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth
57. Roughing It by Mark Twain
58. Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
59. Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert by William Langewiesche
60. Sea and Sardinia by D.H. Lawrence
61. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
62. Serengeti: Natural Order on the African Plain by Chronicle Books LLC Staff
63. Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby
64. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
65. The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
66. South Southeast by Steve McCurry
67. Stranger in the Forest: A Foot Across Borneo by Eric Hansen
68. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler
69. 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
70. This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich
71. Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson
72. Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck (pictured above)
73. Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place by Mary Lee Settle
74. Two Towns in Provence by M.F.K. Fisher
75. An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot
76. The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels by Freya Stark
77. Vanishing Breed: Photographs of the Cowboy and the West by William Albert Allard
78. Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer
79. West with the Night by Beryl Markham
80. Where Masks Still Dance: New Guinea by Meg Taylor
Of the above books, how many have you had a chance to read? What did you think about them? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.

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