Best Historical Travel Journals
203. 
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
by:
Peter Hessler
4.22 avg rating — 7,536 ratings 
206. 
Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847
by:
Winston Groom
4.01 avg rating — 393 ratings 
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A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean 3.99 avg rating — 2,410 ratings
213. 
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
by:
Tony Horwitz
3.99 avg rating — 4,139 ratings 214. 
The Shogun's Reluctant Ambassadors: Japanese Sea Drifters in the North Pacific 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
219. 
Traveling through the Deserts of Egypt: From 450 b.c. to the Twentieth Century 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
221. 
Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia
by:
Roff Smith
3.89 avg rating — 484 ratings 
224. 
Two Wheels Through Terror: Diary of a South American Motorcycle Odyssey
by:
Glen Heggstad
3.70 avg rating — 241 ratings 225. 
Discoveries In Egypt, Ethiopia, And The Peninsula Of Sinai, In The Years 1842-1845 (1853) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
225. 
In the Wake of the Jomon: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific
by:
Jon Turk
4.22 avg rating — 72 ratings 
229. 
Expedition to the Zambesi: The Zambesi River and its Tributaries
by:
David Livingston
3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings 229. 
Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354
by:
James Rumford
4.06 avg rating — 240 ratings 
232. 
The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu
by:
Anthony Sattin
3.90 avg rating — 138 ratings 233. 
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Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell
by:
Michael Gray
3.95 avg rating — 107 ratings 236. 
The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
by:
Daniel Stone
3.94 avg rating — 3,596 ratings 237. 
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 3.67 avg rating — 1,798 ratings
238. 
American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett
by:
Buddy Levy
3.88 avg rating — 314 ratings 
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The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest
by:
Marc Simmons
4.03 avg rating — 68 ratings 
245. 
The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
by:
John Muir
4.12 avg rating — 1,553 ratings 
247. 
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
by:
Wallace Stegner
4.05 avg rating — 4,163 ratings 
249. 
North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring
by:
Bruce M. Beehler
3.90 avg rating — 120 ratings 250. 
Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!: My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group
by:
Dennis Dunaway
4.16 avg rating — 561 ratings 250. 
252. 
South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12
by:
Roald Amundsen
4.19 avg rating — 914 ratings 
254. 
Mississippi Writings: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Life on the Mississippi / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Pudd’nhead Wilson
by:
Mark Twain
4.46 avg rating — 1,084 ratings 254. 
A Little House Traveler: Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Journeys Across America (Little House Nonfiction) 4.10 avg rating — 946 ratings
257. 
The Well-Dressed Hobo: The Many Wondrous Adventures of a Man Who Loves Trains
by:
Rush Loving Jr.
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings 257. 
West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 (Little House, #11) 3.84 avg rating — 4,795 ratings
259. 
Greenpeace Captain: My Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet
by:
Peter Willcox
4.02 avg rating — 165 ratings 
262. 
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
by:
James R. Lilley
3.83 avg rating — 192 ratings 263. 
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter (Focus on American History Series)
by:
John A. Lomax
3.68 avg rating — 31 ratings 
265. 
Incredible Survival Stories: Tales of Death-Defying Treks across the Globe
by:
Graham Moore
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
266. 
Trek: A Classic Adventure Story of Disaster and Survival in the Sahara
by:
Paul Stewart
4.18 avg rating — 88 ratings 
269. 
The Journals of Alexander Mackenzie: Exploring Across Canada in 1789 & 1793 4.12 avg rating — 43 ratings
269. 
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by:
Joe Simpson
4.23 avg rating — 63,078 ratings 
272. 
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
by:
Alvin Hall
3.99 avg rating — 605 ratings 
275. 
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent 4.01 avg rating — 274 ratings
275. 
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
by:
Joe Posnanski
4.40 avg rating — 4,717 ratings 
281. 
My Captivity: A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux
by:
Fanny Kelly
3.88 avg rating — 1,856 ratings 282. 
The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail
by:
Sam P. Ridings
3.69 avg rating — 203 ratings 
283. 
Border Country: The Northwoods Canoe Journals of Howard Greene, 1906–1916 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
285. 
Days of Hope, Miles of Misery: Love and Loss on the Oregon Trail
by:
Fred Dickey
4.63 avg rating — 216 ratings 286. 
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The Oregon Trail 4.17 avg rating — 54 ratings
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288. 
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
by:
Cecilia Adams
3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings 288. 
290. 
Oregon and Overland Trail Diary of Mary Louisa Black in 1865 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
290. 
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
by:
Janisse Ray
4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings 292. 
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell 4.05 avg rating — 8,481 ratings
292. 
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
by:
Fridtjof Nansen
4.11 avg rating — 1,418 ratings 
294. 
Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
by:
Marcus Eriksen
3.98 avg rating — 192 ratings 296. 
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 296. 
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Pacific Voyages
by:
James Cook
3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings 
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