Travel Literature

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Any other fans of this genre? What are some of your favorites? Among mine are:

Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts (Western/Central Europe)
Norman Lewis, Voices of the Old Sea (Catalonia)
Jonathan Raban, Hunting Mr. Heartbreak (USA)
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (USA)
Tete-Michel Kpomassie, An African in Greenland (self-explanatory)
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia (self-explanatory)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (France)
William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways (USA)
Claudio Magris, Danube (self-explanatory)

[owlice]

Does A Year in Provence count?

When I read about travel, it makes me want to go to the place I'm reading about, which just frustrates me because I usually can't go (that work/money/raising kid thing, you know), and then I get grumpy, and so I'm better off not reading about travel!!

(I do miss traveling. Someday, someday!)

[DavidW]

I want to travel too, but money is a bit tight.  Some day!  I'll be knocking on Knight's door after taking in the sights.  Well Gurn practically lives next door, it would be cheap to visit him, maybe I should just show up on his door step someday.  

[Szykneij]

Travels with Charley in Search of America