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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
Nancy Marie Brown, The Far-Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
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
Hattie Ellis, Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee
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
Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
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
Isabella Tree, Sliced Iguana
Sara Wheeler, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
Kenneth White, Across the Territories: Travels from Orkney to Rangiroa

>>>See also the blog post Around the World with Madam Mayo

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