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      Literary
      Travel Memoirs 

      (Some Personal 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



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