501 Must-Read Books Section VIII

[avanta7]

From n8an


Travel Books

462. "Travels," Ibn Battuta
463. "The Scorpion-Fish," Nocholas Bouvier
464. "The Road to Oxiana," Robert Byron
465. "In Patagonia," Bruce Charles Chatwin
466. "The Voyage of the HMS Beagle," Charles Darwin
467. "My Journey to Lhasa," Alexandra David-Neel
468. "On the Narrow Road to the Deep North," Lesley Downer
469. "The Traveller's Tree," Patrick Leigh Fermor
470. "Seven Years in Tibet," Heinrich Harrer
471. "Kon Tiki," Thor Heyerdahl
472. "The Purple Land," W.H. Hudson
473. "The Last Place on Earth," Roland Huntford
474. "Video Night in Kathmandu," Pico Iyer
475. "Journey to the Hebrides," Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
476. "Eothen," A.W. Kinglake
477. "The Seasick Whale," Emphraim Kishon
478. "A Rose for Winter," Laurie Lee
479. "Golden Earth," Norman Lewis
480. "The Cruise of the Snark," Jack London
481. "Arctic Dreams," Barry Lopez
482. "The Danube," Claudio Magris
483. "The Snow Leopard," Peter Matthiessen
484. "Destinations," Jan Morris
485. "Never Cry Wolf," Farley Mowat
486. Among the Believers: an Islamic Journey," V.S. Naipaul
487. "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush," Eric Newby
488. "Roads to Santiago," Cees Nooteboom
489. "La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West," Francis Parkman
490. "Into the Heart of Borneo," Raymond (Redmond) O'Hanlon
491. "The Travels," Marco Polo
492. "Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson," Nicholas Rankin
493. "Sailing Alone Around the World," Joshua Slocum
494. "Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile," J.H. Speke
495. "Travels with Charley: In Search of America," John Steinbeck
496. "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes," Robert Louis Stevenson
497. "The Valley of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels," Freya Stark
498. "The Great Railway Bazaar," Paul Theroux
499. "Southern Cross to Pole Star," A.F. Tschiffely
500. "A Tramp Abroad," Mark Twain
501. "On Fiji Islands," Ronald Wright

Heh. A big fat zero on this section. At least I've heard of several of them.




501 Must-Read Books as set by Cathy Lowne (Children's Fiction and Science Fiction), Dr. Vybarr Cregan-Reid (Classic Fiction), Dr. Raphael Hallett (with contributions from Dr. Patricia McManus, Dr. Timothy Black, Dr. Cathy Bergin, and Tom Strawson) (History), Denise Imwold (Memoirs), Gabrielle Mander and Carola Campbell (Modern Fiction and Travel Writing), and Dr. Therie Hendrey-Seabrook (Thrillers).

Comments

[madame-urushiol.livejournal.com]

I had one--the Steinbeck one that I read during my Steinbeck binge a few years ago. Regarding the whole thing...I'm thinking I either have crappy taste or I don't think much of the list. (Knowing my ego, guess which one I'm leaning toward?) ;)

[avanta7.livejournal.com]

The Steinbeck was one of the few I've heard of. There may be a copy of it in the house somewhere. Spouse's Half.com store consumes a great deal of space these days....

And I'm with you: it's the list; it's not us. :D

Hey, I've read one!

[gorydetails.livejournal.com]

Huntford's "The Last Place on Earth," which really is an excellent book - though I wouldn't have thought of it as "Travel" exactly. [It's about Scott and Amundsen and the race to the South Pole. It's also an unapolagetic attempt to un-gild Scott's reputation, since the Guy Who Died seems to have won a bigger share of the world's praises than the Guy Who Did It Right and Didn't Lose a Man.] Good read, anyway.

OK, I also read Steinbeck's "Travels with Charlie" but as that one was required reading in high school it almost doesn't count. And several of the others are classics - though, again, not as what I'd call "travel" books; for me, travel is more of the recreational kind, with intense exploration and naturalistic studies belonging off in "adventure" or "science" somewhere. But maybe that's just me.

But try the Huntford book. It's a good yarn!