1 INTRODUCTION: A Scrap of Wool
Dervla Murphy, Full Tilt
Judith Schalansky, Atlas of Remote Islands
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
3 ‘OUR FEEBLE HEARTS COULD NOT STAND MORE’
Nicolas Bouvier, The Way of the World
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi
Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks
Paul Bowles, Without Stopping
John Masters, Bugles and a Tiger
Ana Briongos, Black on Black
Paul Heiney, One Wild Song
Isabella Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa
Ejnar Mikkelsen, Lost in the Arctic
Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World
Sylvain Tesson, Consolations of the Forest
Maurice Herzog, Annapurna
Heinrich Harrer, The White Spider
Wade Davis, Into the Silence
John Hunt, The Ascent of Everest
W. E. Bowman, The Ascent of Rum Doodle
Redmond O’Hanlon, In Trouble Again
Rudyard Kipling, American Notes
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
John Gimlette, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig
John Betjeman, Shell Guide to Cornwall
7 ‘… LET THE BOY FLAUNT HIS GENIUS SOMEWHERE’
Bruce Chatwin, What Am I Doing Here?
Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani
Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
Wilfred Thesiger, The Marsh Arabs
Freya Stark, Ionia: A Quest
Isabelle Eberhardt, The Oblivion Seekers
Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road
Ryszard Kapuściński, The Shadow of the Sun
Alexander Kinglake, Eothen
Joseph Thomson, Through Masai Land
Jonathan Raban, Driving Home
Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus
Redmond O’Hanlon, Congo Journey
Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways
Charles Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta
T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
11 ‘A BOOK ABOUT HIMSELF (HERSELF)…’
V. S. Naipaul, An Area of Darkness
Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Richard Holmes, Footsteps
Pico Iyer, The Lady and the Monk
Jenny Balfour Paul, Deeper Than Indigo
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Jan Morris, Venice
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italian Journey
Norman Lewis, Naples ’44
Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls, Cadogan Guide to Rome
George Nathaniel Curzon, The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus
Alexandra David-Néel, My Journey to Lhasa
Colin Thubron, To a Mountain in Tibet
Alexander Frater, Chasing the Monsoon
14 ‘… SO LONG ALL YOU WANT IS A PENGUIN’S EGG.’
Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in the Years 1795, 1796 and 1797
Francis Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South
15 ‘I NEVER KNEW OF A MORNING IN AFRICA WHEN I WOKE THAT I WAS NOT HAPPY’
Ernest Hemingway, True at First Light
Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika
Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari
Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat
16 THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION
Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts
Colin Thubron, Behind the Wall
Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways
Isabelle Eberhardt, The Oblivion Seekers
Jon Swain, River of Time
Sybille Bedford, Pleasures and Landscapes
Norman Douglas, Siren Land
Martha Gellhorn, Travels with Myself and Another
Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio
19 THE THIRTIES AND THEIR HERITAGE
Peter Fleming, News from Tartary
Graham Greene, Journey Without Maps
Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Eastern Approaches
Freya Stark, The Minaret of Djam
Eric Newby, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Jason Elliot, An Unexpected Light
Rory Stewart, The Places in Between
21 SEEKING COLOURED ARCHITECTURE
Gertrude Bell, Persian Pictures
Vita Sackville-West, Twelve Days in Persia
Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana
Herodotus, The Histories