Travel Books Crack List of the Top 1,000 Books Owned By Libraries Around the World
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.22.07 | 7:59 AM ET
The Online Computer Library Center has compiled a list of the 1,000 books most widely owned by libraries around the world. The entire list has been tagged and categorized on del.icio.us, and it looks like 12 books tagged travel made the cut. They are:
“Kon-Tiki” by Thor Heyerdahl
“Travels with Charley” by John Steinbeck
“The Travels of Marco Polo” by Marco Polo
“The Oregon Trail” by Francis Parkman
“Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War” by Julius Caesar
“Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition” by Meriwether Lewis
“The Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain
“Voyage of the Beagle” by Charles Darwin
“Roughing It” by Mark Twain
“Out of Africa” by Isak Dinesen
“True History of the Conquest of New Spain” by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
“Life on the Mississippi” by Mark Twain
Three Twain books on the list? Not surprising. No books written in the last few decades? A bit disconcerting.
Librarians around the world might want to check our list of Top 30 Travel Books—and the selections from World Hum readers—to find some recent titles to add to their collections.
Via Britannica Blog.
Related on World Hum:
* Remembering Thor Heyerdahl
* Lewis and Clark: The Quintessential American Exploration
* Chinese Noodles Predate Marco Polo
Email to friend
Twitter
del.icio.us
Digg
Facebook
Furl
Ma.gnolia
Mixx
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Yahoo! Buzz
Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
