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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Blitzcat
Only You Can Save Mankind
Nice and Mean
Cruisers Book 1
The City of Ember
Crispin: The End of Time
Lost Goat Lane
Amelia Rules! Volume 1: The Whole World's Crazy
Middleworld
How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life
Crunch
Countdown
As Simple as It Seems
Wolf Brother
Lob
Sparks
The Ogre of Oglefort
The Pickle King


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Friday, October 30, 2009

Telegraph's 20 best travel books of all time

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/travelbooks/4932008/The-20-best-travel-books-of-all-time.html?image=19

Kerouac, Jack. On the road
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
Coasting by Jonathan Raban
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
The Beach by Alex Garland
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
11. Venice by Jan Morris
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
The Journals of Captain Cook
Among the Russians by Colin Thubron

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