The Best Travel Books of All Time: The World Hum Top 30

This month marks World Hum’s five-year anniversary. Whew. Even we can’t believe we’ve made it this far. To celebrate, we asked some of our favorite writers and contributors to help us come up with the top literary travel books of all time—the kind of books that transcend travelogues, that inspire distant wanderings, that change lives. Each day this month, we’ll be counting down our picks, starting with No. 30 tomorrow, and ending with the best travel book of all time on May 31. Look for contributions from yours truly, Thomas Swick, Michael Shapiro, Tom Bissell,  Rolf Potts, Terry Ward, Michael Yessis and Jim Benning.

—Frank Bures is the books editor of World Hum.

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