52 Books For Travelers of All Ages
Great reads and grand gift ideas for the intrepid explorer or the armchair traveler.
1. Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) – John Steinbeck
2. In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
3. - Travels - Michael Crichton
4. Tao of Travel - Paul Theroux
5. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel - Rolf Potts
6. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
7. The Travels of Marco Polo (The Broadway Travellers) – Marco Polo
8. Backpacking Wyoming: From Towering Granite Peaks to Steaming Geyser Basins - Lorain Douglas
9. Halfway to Each Other: How a Year in Italy Brought Our Family Home - Susan Pohlman
10. The Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron
11. Facing the Congo - Jeffrey Taylor
12. The Size of the World - Jeff Greenwald
14. All the Wrong Places by James Fenton
15. Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead by Peter Manseau
16. Nomad’s Hotel: Travels in Time and Space by Ceese Nooteboom
17. Johnny Ginger’s Last Ride by Tom Fremantle
18. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
19. Tiger for Breakfast by Michel Peissel
20. The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman
21. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
22. The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev
23. Annapurna by Maurice Herzog
24. Hiking the Continental Divide Trail by Jennifer Hanson
25. Imagine: A Vagabond Story by Greg Lingel
26. Empty Nest to Life Vest by Christie Gorsline
27. Big Earth: 101 Amazing Adventures by Russ Malkin
28. Next Stop Grand Central by Maira Kalman
29. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: 2nd Edition by Patricia Schultz
30. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
31. The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
32. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
33. This is Rome (Paris
, London
, New York
) by Miroslav Sasek
34. Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams
35. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
36. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
37. Hiking Through History by Kirk Ward Robinson
38. Life is a Trip by Judie Fein
39. Raining Cats and Rats by Donna Gottardi
40. Oh, the Thinks You Can Think by Dr. Suess
41. Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert by William Langewiesche
42. Come Hell on High Water by Gregory Jaymes
43. The Hidden Europe by Francis Tapon
44. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
45. Coasting by Jonathan Raban
47. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
48. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
49. The Journals of Captain Cook by James R. Cook and Phillip Edwards
50. The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara, Cintio Vitier, and Aleida Guevara
51. The Lost Girls by Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett, and Amanda Pressner