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SOME OF OUR FAVORITE LITERATURE
ACROSS CONTINENTAL BOUNDARIES
  Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, Tony Horwitz
  The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain
EUROPE
Europe A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Eastern Europe Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, Isabela Fonseca
Albania Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania, Robert Carver
Austria A Nervous Splendor, Frederic Morton
Czech Republic Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City, Peter Demetz
France From Here You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant, Michael Sanders
Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
Travels wih a Donkey in the Cevennes (& The Amateur Immigrant), Robert Louis Stevenson
Germany The Bells in Their Silence, Michael Gorra
Greece Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece, Patricia Storace
  The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller
Great Britain In Search of London, H.V. Morton
  Notes From a Small Island, Bill Bryson
Greenland An African in Greenland, Tete-Michel Kpomassie
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, Gretel Ehrlich
Ireland Round Ireland in Low Gear, Eric Newby
Italy A Traveller in Italy, H.V. Morton
  A Traveller in Rome, H.V. Morton
  Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes
  On Persephone's Island: a Sicilian Journal, Mary Taylor Simeti
  No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice, Judith Martin (aka Miss Manners)
Russia In Siberia, Colin Thubron
Spain A Late Dinner: Discovering the Food of Spain, Paul Richardson
ASIA
General Asia Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia,Tony Horwitz
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia, Paul Theroux
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux
In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerers in History, Stanley Stewart
Central Asia So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places, Elinor Birkett
Afghanistan The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
  The Places in Between, Rory Stewart
Bhutan Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan, Jamie Zeppa
China Iron and Silk, Mark Salzman
  Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, Paul Theroux
India Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East, Gita Mehta
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi, William Dalrymple
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure, Sarah Macdonald
Indonesia Shooting the Boh, Tracy Johnston
Iran The Valleys of the Assassins - and Other Persian Travels, Freya Stark
  Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
Japan Memoirs of a Geisha (fiction), Arthur S. Golden
Thailand Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand, Karen Connelly
Tibet My Journey to Lhasa, Alexandra David-Neel
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La, Alec Le Sueur
Turkey Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place, Mary Lee Settle
My Name is Red (fiction), Orhan Pamuk
Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk
Uzbekistan Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, Tom Bissell
Vietnam Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, Andrew X. Pham
Yemen A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen, Freya Stark
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
General Caribbean & South America The Middle Passage, V.S. Naipaul
Mexico On Mexican Time, Tony Cohan
Oaxaca Journal, Oliver Sacks
Cuba Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba, Tom Miller
South America
Patagonia In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin
Chile Travels in a Thin Country: a Journey Through Chile, Sara Wheeler
Ecuador The Panama Hat Trail, Tom Miller
Paraguay At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay, John Gimlette
THE PACIFIC
 

Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuat, J. Maarten Troost

Australia In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback, Robyn Davidson
Borneo Stranger in the Forest, Eric Hansen
AFRICA
General Africa Dark Star Safari, Paul Theroux
The Sahara Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Dean King
Central Africa The Poisonwood Bible (fiction), Barbara Kingsolver
East Africa West with the Night, Beryl Markham
Southern Africa Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
Egypt Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz
Ethiopia Cutting for Stone (fiction), Abraham Verghese
THE UNITED STATES & CANADA
The United States A Lady's Life in the Rockies, Isabella Bird
A Walk Across America, Peter Jenkins
Ciao America! An Italian Discovers the U.S., Beppe Severgnini
..Alaska Coming into the Country, John McPhee
..the South Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz
Canada Theatre of Fish, John Gimlette
THE POLAR CAPS
Antarctica Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, Sara Wheeler
Arctic Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez
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