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- India: A Mosaic (B), ed. Robert B. SILVERS and Barbara EPSTEIN
- AL-E AHMAD, Jalal:
- The Israeli Republic (B) - 1963 visit to Israel
- Lost in the Crowd (B) - 1964 hajj
- ATTLEE, James: Isolarion (B) - A Different Oxford Journey
- BAYARD, Pierre: How to Talk About Places You've Never Been (B)
- BROOK, Chris (ed.): K Foundation burn a Million Quid (A) - money-burning adventures
- CAREY, Peter: Wrong About Japan (B) - A Father's Journey with his Son
- CELATI, Gianni: Adventures in Africa (B) - Mali, Senegal,and Mauritania
- CLAPP, Nicholas: Sheba (B) - Saudi Arabia and Yemen
- CORTÁZAR, Julio: Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (A-) (with Carol Dunlop) - A Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseille
- DE BOTTON, Alain: The Art of Travel (B+) - thoughts on the art of travel
- DE MAISTRE, Xavier:
- Voyage around my Room (A-) - mini-adventures
- Nocturnal Expedition around my Room (B+) - mini-adventures redux
- DELISLE, Guy: Burma Chronicles (B)
- DIYĀB, Ḥannā: The Book of Travels (B+) -- eighteenth-century travels in Mediterranean region and Paris
- DYER, Geoff: Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It (B+) - slacker journeying
- ESTERHÁZY Péter: Utazás a tizenhatos mélyére (B+) - Germany, football
- GOYTISOLO, Juan:
- Landscapes of War (B) - war scenes
- Space in Motion (B) - various essays
- HASLINGER, Josef: Phi Phi Island (B+) - the 2004 tsunami in Thailand
- HAZZARD, Shirley: Greene on Capri (B) - Graham Greene on Capri
- HINGSTON, Michael: Try Not to be Strange (B+) - The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
- KALDER, Daniel: Lost Cosmonaut (B+) - Observations of an Anti-Tourist
- KAPUSCINSKI, Ryszard: The Shadow of the Sun (A-) - Africa
- KRASZNAHORKAI László: Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens (B+) - Reportage about China
- LARKIN, Emma:
- Everything is Broken (B) - A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma
- Secret Histories (US title: Finding George Orwell in Burma) (B) - Burma
- LESSER, Wendy: Scandinavian Noir (B) - In Pursuit of a Mystery
- LOWRY, Thomas P.: Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (B)
- LUYENDIJK, Joris: People Like Us (B) - the Middle East
- MACFARLANE, Robert: Mountains of the Mind (B+)
- MAC ORLAN, Pierre: A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer (B)
- MAGUIRE, Peter: Facing Death in Cambodia (B)
- MAHOMED, Dean:
- The Travels of Dean Mahomet (ed. M.H.Fisher) (B) - India
- See also: The First Indian Author in English (ed. M.H.Fisher) (B+) - India
- MALMSTEN, Bodil: The Price of Water in Finistère (B)
- MARLOWE, Ann: The Book of Trouble (B) - Afghanistan and Baghdad
- MARSHALL, Andrew: The Trouser People (B-) - Burma
- MICHAUX, Henri: A Barbarian in Asia (A-) - Asia
- MISHRA, Pankaj: Butter Chicken in Ludhiana (B+) - India
- MITTELMEIER, Martin: Naples 1925 (C) - Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory
- NEZVAL, Vítězslav: A Prague Flâneur (B)
- NICHOLSON, Geoff: The Lost Art of Walking (B) - The History, Science, Philosophy, and Literature of Pedestrianism
- NOOTEBOOM, Cees: Roads to Santiago (B+) - Spain
- NOWICKI, Wojciech: Salki (B) - central and eastern Europe
- PAMUK, Orhan: Istanbul (B) - Memories and the City
- PATERNITI, Michael: Driving Mr. Albert (B) - American road-trip
- PAZ, Octavio: In Light of India (B+) - India
- POLIER, Antoine-Louis Henri: I'Jaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters) (--) - India
- RANSMAYR, Christoph: Atlas of an Anxious Man (A-)
- SADE, Donatien Alphonse François de: Journey to Italy (B+)
- SCHALANSKY, Judith: Atlas of Remote Islands (B+) - Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
- SINCLAIR, Iain:
- Lights out for the Territory (B) - London
- Liquid City (with Marc Atkins) (A-) London
- London Orbital (B) - M25
- Sorry Meniscus (A) - Millennium Dome
- STARK, Freya: The Valleys of the Assassins (B+) - Persia
- STASIUK, Andrzej: Fado (B+) - Central/Eastern Europe
- THEROUX, Paul:
- Dark Star Safari (A-) - eastern Africa
- Ghost Train to the Eastern Star (B+) - On the Tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar
- Sir Vidia's Shadow (A) - East African and elsewhere
- TROJANOW, Ilija: Mumbai to Mecca (B) - A Pilgrimage to the Holy Sites of Islam
- al-TŪNISĪ, Muḥammad: In Darfur (B) - An Account of the Sultanate and Its People
- WALL, Richard: Wittgenstein in Ireland (B) - Wittgenstein in Ireland
- WANJEK, Christopher: Spacefarers (B) - How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
- WEINERSMITH, Kelly: A City on Mars (B) (with Zach Weinersmith) -- Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through ?
- WILMSEN, Edwin N.: Journeys with Flies (B) - Botswana
- WINCHESTER, Simon: The Man Who Loved China (UK title: Bomb, Book and Compass) (B) -- The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom, Joseph Needham
- WISNER, Geoff: A Basket of Leaves (-) - 99 Books that Capture the Spirit of Africa
- WRONG, Michela: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz (B+) - Zaire/Congo
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- ATXAGA, Bernardo: Nevada Days (B)
- AU, Jessica: Cold Enough For Snow (A-) - Japan
- BAIL, Murray: Homesickness (B) - tourists
- BARNES, Julian: England, England (A-) - theme park
- BASARA, Svetislav: The Mongolian Travel Guide (B+) - not a travel guide
- BENOÎT, Pierre: Queen of Atlantis (B)
- BOUCHERON, Bernard du: The Voyage of the Short Serpent (C) - medieval Greenland
- BUGADZE, Lasha: The Literature Express (B) - writers on a train
- CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de: The Lusíads (B+) - Vasco de Gama's expedition to India
- CHAUDHURI, Amit:
- Friend of My Youth (B+) - back to Bombay
- Sojourn (B+) - Berlin
- CHU T'ien-hsin: The Old Capital (B+) - A Novel of Taipei (and more)
- DARRIEUSSECQ, Marie: White (B+) - Antarctica
- ENDŌ Shūsaku:
- Deep River (B) - spiritual journey to India
- Foreign Studies (B+) - Japanese experiences in Europe
- GUO Xiaolu: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (B) - a Chinese woman in England
- HANSEN, Erik Fosnes: Lobster Life (B) - hotel novel
- HAWES, James: Speak for England (A-) - Papua New Guinea, and England
- HOUELLEBECQ, Michel:
- KILPI, Volter: Gulliver's Voyage to Phantomimia (B+)
- KRACHT, Christian: Imperium (B) - South Seas adventures
- LÉVY-BERTHERAT, Déborah: The Travels of Daniel Ascher (B) - author of adventure tales
- MILLS, Magnus: Explorers of the New Century (B+)
- MUSCHG, Adolf: Löwenstern (B+) - Japan and Russia
- NICHOLSON, Geoff:
- Bleeding London (A) - London
- What we did on our Holidays (A-) - caravan holiday
- PFEIJFFER, Ilja Leonard: Grand Hotel Europa (B+) - tourism
- POND, Hattie: On Wandsworth Bridge (A-) - Mauritania (and time travel ...)
- POSCHMANN, Marion: The Pine Islands (A-) - Japan
- RAITTILA, Hannu: Canal Grande (B+) - Finns in Venice
- RANSMAYR, Christoph: Cox (B+) - 18th century China
- ROLIN, Jean: The Explosion of the Radiator Hose (B) - (and other mishaps, on a journey from Paris to Kinshasa)
- SHIBUSAWA Tatsuhiko: Takaoka's Travels (B+) - ninth-century pilgrimage to Hindustan
- SINCLAIR, Iain:
- Downriver (A-) - London
- Landor's Tower (A-) - Wales
- SLAUERHOFF, Jan Jacob: Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (B+) - late 1920s China
- SMITH, Ali: Hotel World (B+) - fiction (hotel)
- SOUPAULT, Philippe: The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle (A-) - Greenland
- STICHMANN, Andreas: Eine Liebe in Pjöngjang (B) - North Korea
- SUTCLIFFE, William: Are you Experienced ? (B-) - backpacking in India
- SZERB, Antal: Journey by Moonlight (B+) - honeymoon and more in Italy
- TABUCCHI, Antonio: Indian Nocturne (B+) - India
- TAVARES, Gonçalo M.: A Voyage to India (B+) - Europe and India
- THEROUX, Paul:
- A Dead Hand (B) - A Crime in Calcutta
- The Elephanta Suite (B+) - Americans in India x 3
- Hotel Honolulu (B+) - Hawaii hotel
- TOUSSAINT, Jean-Philippe:
- Fuir (A-) - China and Elba
- Making Love (B+) - Tokyo
- Self-Portrait Abroad (B) - Japan, Corsica, Tunisia, Prague, Viet Nam
- TROJANOW, Ilija: Der Weltensammler (A-) - Richard Francis Burton abroad
- TSEPENEAG, Dumitru: Hotel Europa (B) - Romania
- UGRESIC, Dubravka: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (B+) - post-Soviet Europe
- VERNE, Jules: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (B+)
- WERNER, Markus: Der ägyptische Heinrich (B) - Egypt
- YUN Ko-eun: The Disaster Tourist (B) - disaster tourism
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