A Byzantine Journey
John Ash. RH, 1995.
From Istanbul to Analolia, the original source of the Byzantine Empire's wealth.

To Jerusalem and Back
Saul Bellow. Viking, 1976.
A personal record of Bellow's sojourn in Israel in 1975.

Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment.
Richard Bernstein. Knopf, 2001.
A story of cultural discovery and spiritual quest.

Neither East Nor West:: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran
Christiane Bird. Pocket, 2001.
Depicts Iran today, in all its beauty, ferocity, and contradiction -- from the modern bustling capital of Tehran to the medieval holy city of Qom.

Two Wheels Around New Zealand
Scott Bischke. Pruett, 1989.
The land Down Under from the seat of a bicycle. In the same vein: Cold Beers and Crocodiles , by Roff Smith. Adventure Press, 2000.

"A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow": An American Hitchhiking Odyssey
Tim Brookes. Adventure, 2000.
20 years after hitchhiking America from coast to coast, a former Oxford student retraces his steps.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson. Broadway, 1998.
Delightful chronicle of two middle-aged adventurers determined to walk the entire 2,100 mile trail from Georgia to Maine's Mount Katahdin.

Other books by Bill Bryson:

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America. H&R, 1989.
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe. Morrow, 1992.
Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson. Morrow, 1996.
I'm a Stranger Here Myself. Broadway, 1999.
In a Sunburned Country. Broadway, 2000.

Road Fever, A High-speed Travelogue
Tim Cahill. RH, 1990.
A breathtaking tour of North & South America in a donated GM truck.

Also by Tim Cahill:

A Wolverine is Eating My Leg. Vintage Books, 1989.
Not so Funny when it Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure. Travelers' Tales, 2000.

In Patagonia

Bruce Chatwin. Cape, 1977.
A journey through the Southern tip of South America.

Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands
Thurston Clarke. Ballantine, 2001.
A leisurely survey of islands that have inspired famous stories like Robinson Crusoe and Tales of the South Pacific.

By the same author:

Equator: A Journey. Morrow, c1988.

The Cannibal Queen: An Aerial Odyssey Across America
Stephen Coonts. Pocket, 1992.
Coonts, the author of Flight of the Intruder, and his 14-year-old son spend three months exploring America in a 1942 Stearman open cockpit biplane.

Through the Dragon's Mouth: Journeys into the Yangzi Gorges
Ben Thomson Cowles. Fithian, 1998.
Cowles, along with a Chinese professor and an army pilot, engineer experience a 150-mile stretch of shoals & chasms aboard a 95 foot junk.

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
William Dalrymple. Holt, 1997.
View of a vanishing way of life.

By the same author:

City of Djinns: A Year of Delhi. HarCol, 1993.

From Cape to Cairo: An African Odyssey
David Ewing Duncan. W&N, 1989.
A 6,000 mile trek through 8 former British colonies.

The Greek Islands
Laurence Durrell. Viking, 1978.
Description, myth, and archaeology of the enchanted Greek Islands.

Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
Bruce S. Feiler. Morrow, 2001.
A 10,000 mile trek from Mount Ararat to Mount Nebo.

Summer at Little Lava: A Season at the Edge of the World.
Charles Fergus. North Point, 1998.
How Fergus fixed up an abandoned farm on the west coast of Iceland and spent a summer there with his family.

The Sylvan Path: A Journey Through America's Forests
Gary Ferguson. St. M., 1997.
A celebration of America's forest lands and the people whose lives are still firmly tied to them.

Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
Rita Golden Gelman. Crown, 2001.
After the failure of her marriage the 48-year-old author sold all her possessions and set off to see the world. Fifteen years later, she still has no permanent address.

Zero Three Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane
Mariana Gosnell. Knopf, 1993.
Three months of adventure flying a single-engine tailwind airplane across country and back.

A Journey North
Adrienne Hall. Appalachian Mt. Club, 2001.
What starts out as a date becomes the experience of a lifetime.

Footloose in the Himalaya
Mike Harding. M. Joseph, 1989.
The adventures and misadventures of a documentary film crew in the mountains of northern India & Nepal.

Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month is Enchanted
Annie Hawes. HarCol, 2001.
Two sisters escape cold, foggy London to graft roses in Italy.

Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon. LB, 1982.
After losing both his job and his wife on the same day, Heat-Moon heads on a 13,000 cross-country tour of America's back roads in a van named Ghost Dancing.

Also by William Least Heat-Moon:

River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America. HM, 1999.

The Grand Tour
Christopher Hibbert. Putnam, 1969.
Tour Europe as it was in the 18^th & early 19^th centuries.

The Seasons of Rome: A Journal
Paul Hoffman. Holt, 1997.
Travel writer Hoffman, a resident of Rome for 30 years, details the daily life of the city he loves.

Falling Off the Map
Pico Iyer. Knopf, 1993.
Visiting North Korea, Argentina, Cuba, Iceland, Bhutan, Vietnam, Paraguay & Australia.

By the same author:

The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto. Knopf, 1991.
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home. Knopf, 2000.

Running the Amazon
Joe Kane. Knopf, 1989.
Travel the full 4,200 mile Amazon River with 10 explorers.

Under The Tuscan Sun : At home in Italy
Frances Mayes. Broadway, 1996.
The author buys & restores a villa in the Tuscan countryside and explores the Italian landscape.

The author's love affair with Tuscany continues with:

Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy. Broadway, 1999.
In Tuscany. Broadway, 2000.

Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France
Peter Mayle. Knopf, 1999.
Mayle is back in Provence with a whole new feast of adventures, discoveries, hilarities & culinary treats.

By the same author:

A Year in Provence. Knopf, 1990.
Toujours Provence. Knopf, 1991.
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew. Knopf, 2001.

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in the West of Ireland
Pete McCarthy. St. M., 2000.
BBC personality McCarthy explores the rural areas from Cork to Donegal in search of his Irish roots and usually finds himself in the local pub.

Travels as a Brussels Scout
Nick Middleton. W&N, 1997.
A modern rendition of the "Grand Tour" of Europe.

Journeys
Jan Morris. OUP, 1984.
From the Las Vegas Strip to China, Morris captures the essence of unique places.

Also by Jan Morris:

The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country. OUP, 1984.
The Pleasures of a Tangled Life. Random, 1989.
O Canada: Travels in an Unknown Country. HarCol., 1992, 1990.

Full Tilt
Dervla Murphy. Overlook, 1986, 1965.
A bicycle odyssey across two continents, Iceland to India.

Also by Dervla Murphy:

South from the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa. Overlook, 1999.

Two Wheels in the Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy
Anne Mustoe. Virgin, 2001.
An amazing cultural & spiritual journey by bicycle across the Indian subcontinent.

Round Ireland in Low Gear
Eric Newby. Viking, 1988.
The author and his wife explore the Emerald Isle by mountain bike.

By the same author:

On the Shores of the Mediterranean. LB, 1984.
A Book of Travellers' Tales. Viking, 1986, 1985.

Journey to the Source of the Nile
Christopher Ondaatje. Firefly, 1998.
In 1856 Richard Frances Burton led an expedition to fine the mysterious source of the Nile. In 1996 Ondaatje followed the Victorian explorers route across the Serengeti Plains to Oldrivai Gorge.

I Didn't Hear the Dragon Roar
Frances M. Parsons. Gallaudet, 1988.
The story of a deaf woman's solo journey from Hong Kong to Kathmandu.

Catfish and Mandala
Andrew X. Pham. FSG, 1999.
A Vietnamese-American's solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and forsaken fatherland.

New York Proclaimed
V.S. Pritchett. HBW, 1965.
Pritchett captures the changing New York scene from the Battery to Harlem.

Homelands: Kayaking the Inside Passage
Byron Ricks. Avon, 1999.
A five-month trip from Alaska's Glacier Bay to Puget Sound.

Empire of the Soul: Some Journeys in India
Paul William Roberts. Riverhead, 1996, 1994.
India, from the crumbling palaces of the maharajas to the slums of Calcutta.

By the same author:

The Demonic Comedy: Some Detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein. FSG, 1997.
In Search of the Birth of Jesus: The Real Journey of the Magi. Riverhead, 1995.

French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
Harriet Welty Rochefort. St. M, 1999.
The almost always humorous adventures of an Iowan in the City of Light.

Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
Alistair Scott. AM Press, 1990.
A Scottish adventure satisfies his wanderlust by dog-sledding his way across the Final Frontier.

England's Green & Pleasant Land
Kate Simon. Knopf, 1974.
Travel England to find a Roman fort near Chollerford and King John's castle in Bere Regis.

Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck. Viking, 1962.
At the age of 58, the Nobel Prize-winning author and his faithful standard poodle set out on a 3-month journey across America in a camper.

The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Paul Theroux. Putnam's Sons, 1992.
The author travels from the Fiordland wilderness in New Zealand to Tahiti to Easter Island to Hawaii.

More books by Paul Theroux:

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia. HM, 1975.
The Old Pantagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas. HM, 1979.
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain. HM, 1983.
The Imperial Way. HM, 1985.
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984. HM, 1985.
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train through China. Putnam's , 1988.
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean. HM, 1995.
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, 1985-2000. HM, 2000.

Fool's Paradise
Dale Walker. Vintage, 1988, 1980.
An American teacher's search for vestiges of an ancient culture in modern-day Saudi Arabia.

Journey Across Tibet Sorrel Wilby. CB, 1988.
A young Australian woman's 1900-mile trek through Tibet. In the same vein: Among Warriors: A Martial Artist in Tibet, by Pamela Logan. Overlook, 1996.

--Compiled by Linda Bova & Lynne Kennedy

Created and maintained by: Lynne M. Kennedy.

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