Best Travel Books of All Time
The Telegraph has just published their list of the twenty best travel books of all times- a selection worth reviewing.
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A Controversial Conference
Diary of a Mad Natural Historian
Education, the Moebius Strip and Second Life (SL)
On the track of Steve Fossett's airplane
Against very fierce winds
Intrepid Journeys
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885)
How I found Livingstone: Diary of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1872)
A Most Mysterious Manuscript
Nan Matol - but a pyramid?
The Last Thylacine (1936)
Blondin across Niagara Falls (1859)
The One Cent Magenta - worth millions!
Voyages of The Adventure and Beagle: the diaries of Charles Darwin (1832)
Celebrating Poe
Chasing the bones of the Peking Man (2006)
The Dorchester Vase (1852)
Autumn - the colors are here!
W. Woodville Rockhill: An American in Tibet. Among the Mongols of the Azur Lake (1890)
Lost & Found (2006)
Shipwreck Central
A hidden message from the past: Maillardet's Automaton (1800)
Curse of Tlaloc: Torrential Downpours over Mexico City (1964)
In Pursuit of the Tasmanian Globster (1960)
Napoleon's Chess set
Calling All Bradbury Fans! The Scent of Yesterday is Here!
Satellite Archaeology and Anomaly Remote Research
The Legend of The Great Omar
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Journal of an Imprisonment in Seringapatam (1781-1784)
The Apolo 11 Mission videos (1969)
Tom Lewsey's Journals (2004)
Les Aventures de Lydia au Maroc (2004)
David Morgan-Mar's Travel and Other Diaries
David Patrick Columbia's New York Social Diary (2005)
The rockblasting poet's diary: Julius Chingono (2003)
From Opotiki, New Zealand: Diaries of Jessica and Michael (2003)
Whatever happened to the portrait of Carlota Valdez?
On Sunken Megalithic Ruins
Bill's Correspondence Chess Diary (ongoing 2005)
Dot's Diary: Diary of a dyslexia teacher (2005)
Matsuo Basho's Travel Diary (1689): Narrow Road to the Deep North
Alec Guinness: "My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor" (1997)
Conversation with Jorge Luis Borges (1982)
An autobiography by Jack S. Kilby (2000)
The Diary of Sebastian Vizcaino (1602)
Collecting Gardel
Angelina Jolie's Jordan Diaries (2003)
Wynne's Diary: The Life and Times of an Edwardian Lady (1895-1931)
The Diaries and Letters of Lt. Ralph Clark (1787-1792)
Dan Washburn's Shanghai Diaries: The Trip Archives (2004)
Robert Whyte's The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship (1847)
Ivan Noble's Cancer Diary (2003)
For Freedom: The Travel Diaries of Francisco de Miranda (1783)
The TravelBlog of Sarah Kennedy + Pete Sherratt (2004)
Robert Walker's Diary (1856-1866)
Dr Felicia R. Beardsley's Micronesian Diary (1998-1999)
Toby's and Serena's Travel Diaries (2003)
Letters from the six wives of Henry VIII
The Diary of Cristopher Columbus (1492)
East Africa Trip Journal, June / July 2000
The Diary of Lt. Bruce K. Bockstanz - Prisoner of War (1945)
Nessie: amateur video (2003)
Diary of a Foreigner Living in Turkey (1993-1998)
Committed: Confessions of a "Former" Cereal Dater (2004-2005)
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (1913)
Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan
Samuel Pepys (1659-1667)
The Sinking of the RMS Titanic - April 14, 1912
The Notebooks of Leonardo
Strawberry Hill Forever
Comparing Gutenberg Bibles - The British Library's digital versions
Four Hundred Years of Don Quixote
A refined Tokay Dessert Wine
The Sarashina Diary, by Anonymous (1009- ), Japan
John Copeland's Diary of a Septuagenarian (2005)
A Spy's story: R.H. Bruce Lockhart, British Agent (1918)
Diary of Robert E. Peary, North Pole Explorer (February - April 1909)
Diary of David John Davies, 'Life in the Libyan Desert, Tripoli', 5 November 1915 - 17 January 1916
The Travel Journal of Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (2001)
The Notebooks of Walt Whitman (1847-1896?)
Letters from the Tsar to the Tsaritsa: 1914-1917
Ota Benga: a Pygmy at the Bronx Zoo (1906)
Twenty-fourth posting: Journals in The Galapagos
Anna and the King - a true story?
Of a special Diamond - an oversized one
Changes
Twenty-third posting: Jennifer Iserloh's Kitchen Diary and Culinary Weblog
Twenty-second posting: Journal of Hilary Hahn, violin virtuosa (1999-2000)
Twenty-first posting: Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York (1849-1850)
Twentieth post: The Diary of Howard Carter (1922)
Nineteenth posting: The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1804-1806)
Eighteenth posting:Diary of Edwin Jones: France, Egypt and Mesopotamia (1915-1916)
Seventeenth posting: Amiel's Journal (1848)
Sixteenth posting: The journals of the Macquaries (1809-1822)
Fifteenth posting: The Diaries of George Washington (1741-99)
Fourteenth posting: The Diary of John Henry Asendorf (1898)
Thirteenth posting: Southeast Asia Diary (1997)
Twelfth posting: Joe Mastroianni's Antartica Diaries
Eleventh posting: Diaries of two Southern ladies (1865)
Tenth posting: The Diary of an Average Australian (2005)
Ninth posting: Diary of an American lady (1850) - Travels to England & France
Eighth Posting: The Diary of Astronaut Clayton Anderson (2004)
Seventh posting: The diary of a U-boot commander
Sixth Posting: Memorial de Ste. Hélène (1823)
Fifth posting: Iqaluit Diary
Fourth posting: 'Wonders of the World' Tour Diaries
Third posting: Diary of a Canadian nurse in WWI (1915)
Second posting: The Martha Ballard Diary
First posting: The Goode Diary
Last Day of the Year
Petronius never said that!
The Warbler and the Spy
Ellis Parker, an American Sherlock Holmes
Icelandic chess
Tsunami - Clarke survived
Ode on a Chinese Yuan Urn
King Kong's Creepy Spiders
The Forbidden Underground Lake under Opera Garnier
On the missing head of Mata Hari
Of a Viking Ship in the Desert
Three cases of Royal Identities vs. D.B. Cooper
Exploring Xanadu and Coleridge's Ash Farm
The 'Wow' Signal, Redux
Of classic disappearances in the jungle
Nike, or the Wings of the Goddess
Zanzibar: A Sea of Glowing Waters
Dorothy Arnold, revisited
A few bits of the Sky Stone
Marguerite Duras
Remembering Mathias Rust
Was the Amber Room burned by the Soviet Army in 1944?
The Portland Vase: Roman or Rennaissance?
Dancing Coffins in Barbados - Weird Caribbean (2)
Speaking of Coffins...
An Exchange of Great Wine secret tips
Have you been to the Edge?
More underwater oddities
Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico (1819-1880)
The Eltanin Antenna: What Really Happened
ET, Chinese Pyramids and Mysterious Disks
Official position on the Philadelphia Experiment
Epitaph for Captain Oates
Diving for the 'Mary Celeste' - Weird Caribbean (1)
Ornithorincus or Duck-Billed Platypus: not here, anyway
Mozart's skull DNA'd
First notes: Eusapia Palladino
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