The Perils of Traveling by Private Jet

Smoke-Free Hotels On the Rise

Los Angeles Native Jonny Olsen: Huge in Laos

Saving Chekhov’s Yalta ‘White Dacha’ Home

How Can I Save on Transportation During a Round-the-World Trip?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

13 Great Travel Horror Movies

The Hollywood horror archives are filled with tales of bad trips. To celebrate Halloween, Eva Holland and Eli Ellison sift through the carnage to pick their favorites—and lose a little sleep doing so.

Matt Weiland: Through 50 States With 50 Writers

The coeditor of “State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America” talks to Frank Bures about the book, the WPA and how the United States hasn’t been “bulldozed for speed”

Love Herring in Sweden

From artery-clogging casseroles to a fermented concoction that smells alarmingly like vinegary flatulence, Lola Akinmade digs in to a smörgåsbord of herring and explains how to best appreciate Scandinavia’s favorite fish. 

The Water Is Wide

Bronwen Dickey considers Tim Butcher’s “Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart,” which takes readers deep into the Congo

Vagrant Ruminations of a Compulsive Traveler

Where does the urge to hunt for that “fleeting fix of elsewhere” come from? Peter Wortsman recalls a life of travel inspiration. 

Notes From an Unofficial Tourist Greeter

Summer is over, and so is Julia Ross‘ season as an ambassador to travelers in Washington, D.C.’s Woodley Park neighborhood. She’s happy to be off duty.

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

i DO hope that H.V. MORTON appears .... as probably the most influential travel writer…

Very interesting Idea! Will be loking forward for next entries!

You should have asked the editors of Travelers’ Tales (James O’Reilly, Larry Habegger [whoops, that’s me!], Sean O’Reilly). As editors and publishers of more than 80 travel books, some of them works of classic travel literature that had gone out of print, we would have had valuable input to add to the pot.

You do have one of our books in the photo that goes with this post (Travelers’ Tales Thailand) and that’s great, thanks.

i don’t know many travel writers and would love to read more travel stories. Will definitely return here to find out more! So far I have only read Bill bryson and I am guessing he’s not in the top 30?

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Please do enjoy our list. When we wrap it up, we’ll create a form to discuss our choices. We’d love to get all your input.

And Larry, good hearing from you. We’ll find a way to get your picks up on the site, too.

I hope you will be able to take a look at, and enjoy, my blog as I travel the Greek Islands, starting from Venice on 15th May.  Taking in some 40 plus of Greece’s 1,425 islands over the next 6 months I promise you a vibrant and informative journey along the way.  I am travelling mainly by sea throughout, to capture some of the romance of a more leisurely means of travel in today’s unremitting age of the airliner, to examine what the Greek Islands are like today and to go in search of the perfect island.  Does it still exist, I wonder?!

TRAVELS IN THE DOLPHIN’S WAKE:

A JOURNEY ROUND THE GREEK ISLANDS

http://travelsinthedolphinswake.blogspot.com

No Greene?  Try “Journey Without Maps”, or “The Lawless Roads.”

I was wondering if any of the top 30 travel books was written by a woman.  I do not know a lot of author names, so I am not sure.  But even Evelyn Waugh was a male, right?  I was quickly scanning the list looking for a travel book by a woman, but I can’t find one.  Are the contributors (all males ?) biased, or is it just a fluke, or are women writers well represented, and I just don’t know their names?

While I’m not sure it’s a “travel book” per say, I have really enjoyed Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s, “Travels with a Tangerine.” It’s a wonderfully insightful book, traveling through a very misunderstood region of the world, seeing the eyes through someone who speaks the language and has empathy for its people.