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10 best books like The Cruise of the Snark (Jack London): Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War, The Purple Land, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Gipsy Moth Circles the World, The Last Grain Race, The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Tschiffely's Ride: Ten Thousand Miles in the Saddle from Southern Cross to Pole Star, The Best American Travel Writing 2009

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
AuthorRobert Louis Stevenson
ISBN1843500965
The wild Cevennes region of France forms the backdrop for the pioneering travelogue Travels with a Donkey, written by a young Robert Louis Stevenson. Ever hopeful of encountering the adventure he yearned for and raising much needed finance at the start of his writing career, Stevenson embarked on...
White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN1598180703
"White Jacket" written by Herman Melville (best known for his classic whaling novel) was first published in 1850 and is considered to be a semi-biographical book, written from Melville's own personal experiences while returning home to the Atlantic Coast from the South Seas with the American Navy...
The Purple Land
AuthorW.H. Hudson
ISBN1426421540
First published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The Anglo-Argentine naturalist distinguished himself both as one of the finest craftsmen of prose in English literature and as a thinker on ecological matters far ahead of his time.

The...
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0486261131
"We sai1ed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary." — Following the Equator
So begins this classic piece...
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
AuthorFrancis Chichester
ISBN0340004843
When 65-year-old Francis Chichester set sail on his solitary,eastward journey around the world in 1966,many believed he wouldn't return alive. But when the old man returned in his 53-foot ketch Gypsy Moth IV nine months later,he had made history's fastest circumnavigation. Gipsy Moth Circles the...
The Last Grain Race
AuthorEric Newby
ISBN0864427689
In 1938 an eighteen-year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque Moshulu ended up as a dockside restaurant in Philadelphia; the young apprentice went on to become one of the greatest travel...
The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
AuthorTim Severin
ISBN0070563357
Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built...
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
AuthorSamuel Johnson
ISBN0140432213
Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides recounts their tour of Scotland in 1773. While Johnson focuses on Scotland itself, Boswell is even keener on presenting his friend to the notables of his homeland. Together they form...
Tschiffely's Ride: Ten Thousand Miles in the Saddle from Southern Cross to Pole Star
AuthorAimé Tschiffely
From the southeast coast of South America through an expanse of Peruvian sands en route to the West Coast, then onward through Central American jungles and rainforest, and finally to New York, Tschiffely's journey was considered impossible and absurd by many newspaper writers in 1925. However, after...
The Best American Travel Writing 2009
AuthorSimon Winchester
ISBN0618858660
**Heh, 3.5 stars if GoodReads had such a thing**

I tethered with the rating on this one because some of the essays were non-memorable and almost boring, not bothering to uncover the travel experience through narrator experience and setting authenticity.

Yet some were indeed memorable....
The Golem
AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN0374327416
The story of the golem who wanted to be human that moved me so much in The Alchemist's Door is written with very little emotion in Singer's retelling. He takes a just-the-facts-ma'am approach, and the golem seems more of an out-of-control Frankenstein's monster in this story. Therefore, it's hard to...
Eothen
AuthorAlexander William Kinglake
ISBN1426410794
A solitary Western traveler in the Middle East in 1834, this is an extraordinary work of travel writing that is more about the author's internal journey than it is about monuments and museums, one that replicates the personal experience of travel and how it changes who we are. Kinglake's intimate, conversational...
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
AuthorMartin W. Sandler
ISBN1402740859
A riveting true adventure story….
An award-winning, bestselling author…
A page-turner that’s impossible to put down.
 
Almost everyone knows the photo of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as a young boy, peering out from under his father’s desk in the Oval Office. But few realize that...
Devil Take the Blue-tail Fly
AuthorJohn Franklin Bardin
ISBN0140107347
John Franklin Bardin's most acclaimed work plays a virtuoso performance on music and madness in this unforgettable thriller.

In 1946 New York, Ellen, a world-renowned musician, is suffering from the effects of her latest mental breakdown. Amongst other challenges, a chance meeting with...
Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds
AuthorJames Hamilton-Paterson
ISBN0571229387
"Travelling long distances by sea, on the other hand, gives us time. Travel is like death in that it requires mourning. The light melancholy of watching a coastline recede is a necessary observance. We join in with shipboard life just as soon as we wish, and not before. Otherwise we write in our cabin or...
Great Lakes Shipwrecks Survivals
AuthorWilliam Ratigan
ISBN0802870104
In this breathtaking chronicle of the most spectacular shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes, William Ratigan re-creates vivid scenes of high courage and screaming panic from which no reader can turn away.

Included in this striking catalog of catastrophes and Flying Dutchmen are...
A Rose for Winter
AuthorLaurie Lee
ISBN0099479710
He writes like an angel, and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour - Sunday Times

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible...
On the Narrow Road: Journey Into a Lost Japan
AuthorLesley Downer
Lesley Downer is amazing. A Londoner, her chosen field of expertise is all things Japanese.

And the books she writes! If this one is any indication, they’re wonderfully entertaining. And inexpensive. She’s a Goodreads author, too...

Ever read Shogun?

I think by now...
Poisson Scorpion
AuthorNicolas Bouvier
ISBN2070394956
Ce pourrait être le récit d'un séjour exotique, c'est le voyage intérieur d'un homme arrivé à Ceylan après un long périple, pour achever le voyage intérieur au bout de lui-même. Le narrateur fait lentement naufrage, enlisé dans la solitude et la maladie, frôlé par la folie. Et là, sous...
Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
AuthorNorman Lewis
ISBN0907871380
Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breath-taking natural beauty peopled by the gentle Burmese. This is a country where Buddhist beliefs spare even the rats, where the Director of Prisons quotes Chaucer and where three-day theatrical shows are...
Seasick Whale
AuthorEphraim Kishon
ISBN0233957782
Kita boli more vrckava je i presmiješna Kishonova uputa turist-jadnicima koji se drznu putovati po svijetu. U njoj možete doznati kako je turizam postao masovni pokret u nekim zemljama, kako s ponešto muke dobiti popust na talijanskim željeznicama, kako se lako odričemo turističkog imuniteta...
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
AuthorPatrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN1590173805
In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree,...
A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service
AuthorPeace Corps
ISBN0964447266
Twenty-eight first-person stories, recount the unique experience of being a Peace Corps Volunteer.  Compelling, inspiring, sometimes funny, often poignant, these stories represent the breadth of Peace Corps work, the countries it serves, and its Volunteer diversity.  Together, the stories...
The Tigris Expedition: In Search of Our Beginnings
AuthorThor Heyerdahl
ISBN0385173571
If you like the Old Testament, you will like this book, but if you liked "Paddle to the Amazon, you will love "Kon Tiki.: I gave the latter two five stars, and the first two 2 stars.

I expected annother adventure like Kon Tiki instead he talked alot about history and some culture, and this goes on...
Roads to Santiago
AuthorCees Nooteboom
ISBN0156011581
Roads to Santiago is an evocative travelogue through the sights, sounds, and smells of a little known Spain-its architecture, art, history, landscapes, villages, and people. And as much as it is the story of his travels, it is an elegant and detailed chronicle of Cees Nooteboom's thirty-five-year...
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