This list via Insider shows some of the best travel writing. I’ve crossed off the ones I’ve already read.
‘On the Road’ by Jack Kerouac- ‘The Great Railway Bazaar’ by Paul Theroux
‘Into the Wild’ by Jon Krakauer- ‘The Sun Also Rises’ by Ernest Hemingway
- ‘The Geography of Bliss’ by Eric Weiner
- ‘In Patagonia’ by Bruce Chatwin
‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ by Hunter S. Thompson‘Eat, Pray, Love’ by Elizabeth Gilbert- ‘Venice’ by Jan Morris
‘Notes From a Small Island’ by Bill Bryson- ‘The Road to Oxiana’ by Robert Byron
- ‘In Search of Captain Zero’ by Allan Weisbecker
‘Travels with Charley: In Search of America’ by John Steinbeck- ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ by Eric Newby
- ‘Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge’ by John Gimlette
- ‘Our Man in Havana’ by Graham Greene
- ‘Arabian Sands’ by Wilfred Thesiger
- ‘Blue Highways’ by William Least Heat-Moon
- ‘The Shadow of the Sun’ by Ryszard Kapuscinski
- ‘A Year in Provence’ by Peter Mayle
‘Vagabonding’ by Rolf Potts