Travel writing

The best books on travel writing, ranked by quality.

1
Ibn Battuta in Black Africa Ibn Batuta, A. R. Gibb, H. A. R. Gibb · 1829
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (4 ratings)

EN Medieval history Travel writing
2
Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau · 1864
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 (8 ratings)

EN Free ebook Travel writing Nature & environment
3
Travels with Charley John Steinbeck · 1962
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (18 ratings)

EN Travel writing
4
Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor · 1977
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 (5 ratings)

EN Travel writing
5
My First Summer in the Sierra John Reid Muir · 1911
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 (3 ratings)

EN Free ebook Travel writing Nature & environment
6
A walk in the woods Bill Bryson · 1997
★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (68 ratings)

EN Travel writing
7
The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard · 1922
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (5 ratings)

EN Free ebook History Memoir Travel writing
8
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Henry David Thoreau · 1849
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)

EN Free ebook Philosophy Travel writing Nature & environment
9
South! Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton · 1919
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (3 ratings)

EN Free ebook History Memoir Travel writing
10
The Four Men Hilaire Belloc · 1900
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 ratings)

EN Free ebook Travel writing Classics Humorous fiction
11
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc, Martin Hayes · 1890
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 ratings)

EN Free ebook Memoir Travel writing
12
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain · 1800
★★★★★★★★★★ 3.4 (7 ratings)

EN Free ebook Memoir Travel writing Humorous fiction
13
Journals Sir Alexander Mackenzie · 2022
EN Free ebook History Memoir Travel writing
14
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Mary Wollstonecraft · 2012
EN Free ebook Memoir Travel writing
15
On a Chinese Screen William Somerset Maugham · 1922
EN Free ebook Travel writing
16
The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin · 1903
EN Free ebook Travel writing Nature & environment

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