LITERARY
TRAVEL MEMOIRS
Some
Favorites
David
Haward Bain, Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines
Bruce Berger, Almost an Island
Bill Buford, Among the Thugs
Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana
Frances Calderon de la Barca, Life in Mexico
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
Ted Conover, Coyotes
-----, Whiteout: Lost in Aspen
-----, New Jack (not precisely travel writing, but a masterpiece)
Gretel Ehrlich, This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
Charles Fergus, Summer at Little Lava: A Season at the Edge
of the World
M.F.K. Fisher, Long Ago in France
Ian Frazier, Great Plains
Paul Fussell: Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the
Wars
Pico Iyer, Video Night in Kathmandu
C.M. Mayo, Miraculous
Air
Farley
Mowat, Walking on the Land
Jan Morris: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Mary Morris, The River Queen
V.S. Naipaul, Among the Believers
-----, A Turn in the South
Sheila Nickerson, Disappearance: A Map
Gontran de Poncins, Kabloona
Vikram Seth, From Heaven Lake, Travels through Sinkiang and
Tibet
Sara Mansfield Taber, Dusk on the Campo: A Journey in Patagonia
-----, Bread of Three Rivers: The Story of a French Loaf
John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Jon Swain, River of Time
Jennifer Toth, The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath
New York City
Sara Wheeler, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
>>>see
also the blog post
Around
the World with Madam Mayo
Books
on Craft
Books on the Creative Life
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