Fictional Travelers and the ‘Greatest Books’

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  05.06.08 | 1:30 PM ET

imageThe Globe and Mail is hard at work on a list of the 50 Greatest Books—each week through 2008 they’re adding another entry—and some of our favorite fictional travelers are representin’. It’s only week 17, and already The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Gulliver’s Travels and Don Quixote have made the cut. I won’t hold my breath waiting for a nonfiction travel narrative to make the list, but stay tuned to see if Sal Paradise or Odysseus show up later in the year.

Related on World Hum:
* 10 Greatest Fictional Travelers
* World Hum’s Top 30 Travel Books

Tags: Literary Travel

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


1 Comment for Fictional Travelers and the ‘Greatest Books’

John M. Edwards 05.06.08 | 7:20 PM ET

Hi Eva:

I’ve always loved fictional travelers. Italo Calvino wrote a book about the conversations of Italian adventurer Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan.

Of course, it reads like fiction.

If you Google me, John M. Edwards, you might land on the website Bootsnall (http://www.bootsnall.com), where you can read a score of nonfiction stories, mixing fact and fiction.

Right now I feel like an imaginary traveler, waiting to explore the White Light.

John M. Edwards

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