Best Travel Narratives by People of Color

1.
Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure
Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure
by: Elain Lee
4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings
2.
Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun
Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun 3.92 avg rating — 296 ratings
3.
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes 4.29 avg rating — 7,945 ratings
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Blue Highways
Blue Highways 4.03 avg rating — 24,990 ratings
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature 4.22 avg rating — 3,230 ratings
6.
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape 4.08 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria 3.78 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
8.
Mississippi Solo: A River Quest
Mississippi Solo: A River Quest 3.81 avg rating — 699 ratings
9.
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey 4.34 avg rating — 976 ratings
10.
An African in Greenland
An African in Greenland 4.10 avg rating — 1,991 ratings
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Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series) 3.77 avg rating — 132 ratings
12.
South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir
South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir 3.98 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Migritude
Migritude 4.32 avg rating — 725 ratings
14.
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors 4.06 avg rating — 956 ratings
15.
Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East 3.54 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam 3.99 avg rating — 6,619 ratings
17.
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana 3.82 avg rating — 645 ratings
18.
Paris Noir: African-Americans in the City of Light
Paris Noir: African-Americans in the City of Light 4.12 avg rating — 144 ratings
19.
US
US 4.17 avg rating — 211 ratings
20.
The Shooting Star
The Shooting Star 4.09 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
21.
Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain
Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain 3.69 avg rating — 470 ratings
22.
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive 4.42 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
23.
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey 3.80 avg rating — 44,095 ratings
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Black Girl in Paris
Black Girl in Paris 3.83 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
25.
Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban
Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban 3.75 avg rating — 203 ratings
26.
Gloryland
Gloryland 4.09 avg rating — 718 ratings
27.
James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile
James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile 4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
28.
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica 3.98 avg rating — 2,471 ratings
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Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, and Snapshots Across Colo
Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, and Snapshots Across Colo 4.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
30.
Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat
Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat 3.80 avg rating — 65 ratings
31.
The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors
The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors 3.92 avg rating — 441 ratings
32.
Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections
Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
33.
Triangular Road: A Memoir
Triangular Road: A Memoir 3.71 avg rating — 153 ratings
34.
A Stranger in the Village
A Stranger in the Village 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
35.
A Small Place
A Small Place 4.05 avg rating — 17,324 ratings
36.
Belonging: A Culture of Place
Belonging: A Culture of Place 4.23 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
37.
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea 4.02 avg rating — 942 ratings
38.
Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign
Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign
by: Pico Iyer
3.72 avg rating — 695 ratings
39.
Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines
Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines 3.86 avg rating — 389 ratings
40.
From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World 4.25 avg rating — 106 ratings
41.
Hola, Morocha! A Black Woman's Adventures In Buenos Aires: Culture Shock
Hola, Morocha! A Black Woman's Adventures In Buenos Aires: Culture Shock 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
42.
Here Comes the Sun
Here Comes the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 11,628 ratings
43.
All Inclusive
All Inclusive 3.74 avg rating — 301 ratings
44.
Running in the Family
Running in the Family 3.83 avg rating — 9,731 ratings
45.
The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran
The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran 3.80 avg rating — 333 ratings
46.
Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York 3.74 avg rating — 3,782 ratings
47.
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
by: Pico Iyer
3.87 avg rating — 3,030 ratings
48.
No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South
No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South 4.25 avg rating — 106 ratings
49.
Flying While Black: A Whistleblower's Story
Flying While Black: A Whistleblower's Story it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
50.
Twilight People: One Man's Journey To Find His Roots
Twilight People: One Man's Journey To Find His Roots liked it 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
51.
Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island
Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island 4.11 avg rating — 57 ratings
52.
Black Man in Europe
Black Man in Europe really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
53.
Native Stranger
Native Stranger 4.16 avg rating — 128 ratings
54.
Plane Insanity
Plane Insanity 3.53 avg rating — 957 ratings
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Para hacer el cuento corto...
Para hacer el cuento corto... it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
56.
El extenso camino hacia Bahía
El extenso camino hacia Bahía 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
57.
Adventures of a Continental Drifter
Adventures of a Continental Drifter 3.37 avg rating — 337 ratings
57.
Confidencias de una ciudad museo
Confidencias de una ciudad museo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
59.
New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance 3.06 avg rating — 102 ratings
60.
Stars in the Sky: Stories of the First African American Flight Attendants
Stars in the Sky: Stories of the First African American Flight Attendants 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
61.
A Long Way from St. Louie
A Long Way from St. Louie 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
62.
Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion
Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
63.
TrailBlasian
TrailBlasian liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
64.
A Fly Girl: Travel Tales of an Exotic British Airways Cabin Crew
A Fly Girl: Travel Tales of an Exotic British Airways Cabin Crew 3.13 avg rating — 53 ratings
65.
Migrations of the Heart
Migrations of the Heart 4.20 avg rating — 158 ratings
66.
Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography
Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora 3.91 avg rating — 325 ratings
68.
Vibration Cooking or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Vibration Cooking or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl 4.36 avg rating — 214 ratings
69.
Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya
Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya 3.26 avg rating — 666 ratings
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Ida from Abroad: The Timeless Writings of Ida B. Wells from England in 1894
Ida from Abroad: The Timeless Writings of Ida B. Wells from England in 1894 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating