Best Hodophile Books
1. 
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
by:
Kathleen Winter
3.63 avg rating — 539 ratings 
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.26 avg rating — 551,002 ratings 6. 
An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival 4.39 avg rating — 6,106 ratings
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The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
by:
Helen Russell
3.97 avg rating — 31,657 ratings 
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The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds 4.28 avg rating — 7,017 ratings
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Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South
by:
William Bartram
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring
by:
Bruce M. Beehler
3.90 avg rating — 120 ratings 22. 
To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa
by:
Pat Shipman
3.80 avg rating — 363 ratings 
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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
by:
Alice Steinbach
3.81 avg rating — 11,841 ratings 24. 
Weird Tennessee: Your Travel Guide to Tennessee's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
by:
Roger Manley
3.96 avg rating — 70 ratings 26. 
Lonely Planet Banff, Jasper and Glacier National Parks
by:
Lonely Planet
4.10 avg rating — 394 ratings 27. 
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
by:
Jonathan Harr
3.87 avg rating — 35,393 ratings 27. 
Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals
by:
Hilary Bradt
3.27 avg rating — 30 ratings 29. 
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
by:
Jason Roberts
4.09 avg rating — 1,471 ratings 29. 
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No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
by:
Barbara Hodgson
3.69 avg rating — 214 ratings 
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Into a Desert Place: A 3000-Mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California 4.22 avg rating — 227 ratings
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A Little House Traveler: Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Journeys Across America (Little House Nonfiction) 4.10 avg rating — 945 ratings
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A Traveller's History of the Hundred Years War in Peace: Battlefields, Castles and Towns
by:
Michael Starks
4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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In Search of Genghis Khan: An Exhilarating Journey on Horseback across the Steppes of Mongolia
by:
Tim Severin
3.74 avg rating — 245 ratings 40. 
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
by:
Robyn Davidson
3.93 avg rating — 17,208 ratings 40. 
Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country
by:
Tim Butcher
3.98 avg rating — 11,890 ratings 42. 
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America 3.72 avg rating — 2,292 ratings
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City 3.98 avg rating — 2,302 ratings
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On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
by:
Tim Cope
4.15 avg rating — 1,969 ratings 
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The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles 3.88 avg rating — 310 ratings
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FORESTS, ALLIGATORS, BATTLEFIELDS: My Journey through the National Parks of the South
by:
Danny Bernstein
4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress
by:
Mark Twain
3.84 avg rating — 14,583 ratings 54. 
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East 4.32 avg rating — 4,081 ratings
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The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
by:
Joshua Hammer
3.83 avg rating — 3,129 ratings 56. 
That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
by:
Mark Kenyon
4.11 avg rating — 4,266 ratings 58. 
Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table
by:
Graham Holliday
3.67 avg rating — 893 ratings 
60. 
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
by:
Sara Dykman
3.84 avg rating — 2,546 ratings 60. 
Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado
by:
Douglas Preston
4.31 avg rating — 1,014 ratings 
62. 
Crater's Edge: A Family's Epic Journey Through Wartime Russia
by:
Michal Giedroyc
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings 64. 
Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure
by:
Monisha Rajesh
3.79 avg rating — 5,469 ratings 64. 
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
by:
Edward Dolnick
4.01 avg rating — 2,627 ratings 
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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
by:
Jean Manco
3.95 avg rating — 714 ratings 68. 
Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland
by:
Caroline Eden
4.29 avg rating — 243 ratings 68. 
Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
by:
Peter Guralnick
4.22 avg rating — 823 ratings 70. 
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
by:
Andrés Reséndez
4.11 avg rating — 3,688 ratings 71. 
Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World
by:
Harry Thompson
4.04 avg rating — 1,566 ratings 
73. 
Radio Shangri-la: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
by:
Lisa Napoli
3.48 avg rating — 2,246 ratings 73. 
The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom 4.33 avg rating — 106 ratings
75. 
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
by:
Anthony Bourdain
4.10 avg rating — 30,199 ratings 75. 
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain
by:
Paul Theroux
3.75 avg rating — 4,721 ratings 
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See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy
by:
Frances Mayes
3.53 avg rating — 1,272 ratings 
82. 
Life Lessons From the Amazon: A Guide to Life From One Epic Jungle Adventure
by:
Pip Stewart
4.07 avg rating — 184 ratings 83. 
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
by:
John Baxter
3.59 avg rating — 3,753 ratings 84. 
River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future
by:
Victor Mallet
4.15 avg rating — 80 ratings 
88. 
In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling Through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father
by:
Derek Baxter
3.54 avg rating — 215 ratings 89. 
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Stealing from a Deep Place; Travels in Southeastern Europe
by:
Brian Hall
3.67 avg rating — 48 ratings 94. 
On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World
by:
Raghavan Iyer
4.11 avg rating — 171 ratings 