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A travelogue is a written record of a journey. Travelogues have a long history, from Pausanias' account of 2nd-century Greece, to Marco Polo's travels in 13th-century Asia, to the 19th-century ramblings of Mark Twain, through to modern travel literature. ...more

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Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West

The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife

Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan

The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories

Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey

The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East

The Amur River: Between Russia And China

100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife

High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland

We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year

Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor

Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime

Unusual Temples of India (Devalaya Book 1)

Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes

Lotus in the Stone: Sacred Journeys in Eternal India

In The Footsteps Of Rama: Travels with the Ramayana

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“ This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America ”
― Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov

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“ ...it was just a version of Rimbaud in Harar: the exile, a selfish beast with modest fantasies of power, secretly enjoying a life of beer drinking and scribbling and occasional mythomania in a nice climate where there were no interruptions, such as unwelcome letters or faxes or cell phones. It was an eccentric ideal, life lived off the map.¨ ”
― Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

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