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|colspan=5|<small>''The Best of Myles'' ( ) by Flann O'Brien  </small>
|colspan=5|<small>''The Best of Myles'' ( ) by Flann O'Brien  </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''A Jacques Barzun Reader'' ( ) by Jacques Barzun </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Reflections on Exile'' ( ) by Edward W. Said </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Vintage Mencken'' ( ) by H.L. Mencken </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism'' ( ) by John Updike </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings'' ( ) by Angela Carter </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Fame & Folly: Essays'' ( ) by Cynthia Ozick </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Donald Richie Reader'' ( ) by Donald Richie </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Dreamer of Dreams'' ( ) by John Simon </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''On Histories and Stories'' ( ) by A.S. Byatt </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings'' ( ) by John Fowles </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Finding a Form'' ( ) by William H. Gass </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''An Elemental Thing'' ( ) by Eliot Weinberger </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Modern and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Selected_Non-Fictions.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Selected Non-Fictions''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Jorge Luis Borges </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:a_Barthes_Reader.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>'' ''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Roland Barthes </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Six_Memos_for_the_Next_Millennium.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Six Memos for the Next Millennium''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Italo Calvino</small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Less_than_One.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Less Than One: Selected Essays''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Joseph Brodsky </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Campo_Santo.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Campo Santo''<br/> ( ) <br/>by W.G. Sebald </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Modern and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''Visions of Excess'' ( ) by Georges Bataille </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Species of Spaces and Other Pieces'' ( ) by Georges Perec </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Leters, Numbers, Forms: Essays'' ( ) by Raymond Queneau </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by Zhou Zuoren </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected Bilingual Essays'' ( ) by Lin Yutang </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Illuminations: Essays'' ( ) by Walter Benjamin </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Selected Prose'' ( ) by Fernando Pessoa </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Myself With Others: Essays'' ( ) by Carlos Fuentes </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Labyrinth of Solitude'' ( ) by Octavio Paz </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''The Spirit of Prague'' ( ) by Ivan Klima </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Encounter: Essays'' ( ) by Milan Kundera </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays'' ( ) by Umberto Eco </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Anathemas and Admiraitions'' ( ) by E.M. Cioran </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Passing By: Selected Essays'' ( ) by Jerzy Kosinski </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Other People's Trades'' ( ) by Primo Levi </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Nobody's Home'' ( ) by Dubravka Ugresic </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''More Travels in Europe'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''More Travels in Europe'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Guide to Greece]]'' ( ) Pausanias  </small>
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Pausanias|Guide to Greece]]'' (2nd century) by Pausanias  </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland]]'' ( ) by Samuel Johnson </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Sentimental Journey]]'' ( ) by Laurence Sterne </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Letters from England]]'' ( ) by Voltaire </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Italian Journey: 1786:1788]]'' (1788) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Travel Pictures]]'' ( ) by Heinrich Heine </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Letters from Russia]]'' ( ) by Adolphe de Custine </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Winter Notes on Summer Impressions]]'' ( ) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Sakhalin Island]]'' ( ) by Anton Chekhov </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |D.H. Lawrence and Italy]]'' ( ) by D.H. Lawrence </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Mani: Travels in the Souther Peloponnese]]'' ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Silent Traveler in London]]'' ( ) by Chiang Lee </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Stones of Aran: Labyrinth]]'' ( ) by Tim Robinson </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Colossus of Maroussi]]'' ( ) by Henry Miller </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere]]'' ( ) by Jan Morris </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |In Siberia]]'' ( ) by Colin Thubron </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fado]]'' ( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Travels in Asia'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Travels_of_Marco_Polo.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels]]''<br/> (13th century) <br/>of Marco Polo  </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Narrow_Road_to_the_Deep_North.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Oku no Hosomichi|Narrow Road to the Deep North]]''<br/> (1689) <br/>by Matsuo Basho </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Seven_Years_in_Tibet.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Seven Years in Tibet|Seven Years in Tibet]]''<br/> (1951) <br/>by Heinrich Harrer </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Arabian_Sands.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Arabian Sands|Arabian Sands]]''<br/> (1959) <br/>by Wilfred Thesiger </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Snow_Leopard.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Snow Leopard|The Snow Leopard]]''<br/> 1978) <br/>by Peter Matthiessen </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''More Travels in Asia'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:John Mandeville|The Travels]]'' ( ) of Sir John Mandeville </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels]]'' ( ) by Evliya Celebi </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Unbeaten Tracks in Japan]]'' ( ) by Isabella L. Bird </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Malay Archipelago]]'' ( ) by Alfred Russel Wallace </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina]]'' ( ) by Richard Burton</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan]]'' ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Southern Gates of Arabia]]'' ( ) by Freya Stark </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Time to Keep Silence]]'' ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Barbarian in Asia]]'' ( ) by Henri Michaux </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China]]'' ( ) by David Kidd </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hindoo Holiday]]'' ( ) by J.R. Ackerley </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush]]'' ( ) by Eric Newby </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Inland Sea]]'' ( ) by Donald Richie </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Lost Heart of Asia]]'' ( ) by Colin Thubron </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Riding the Iron Rooster]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Great Railway Bazaar]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |City of Djinns]]'' ( ) by William Dalrymple </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul Bowles|Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue]]'' (1963) by Paul Bowles </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Travels in Africa'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Travels_in_West_Africa.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels in West Africa]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Mary Kingsley </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Out_of_Africa.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Out of Africa]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Isak Dinesen </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Green_Hills_of_Africa.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Green Hills of Africa]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Ernest Hemingway </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Journey_Without_Maps.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Journey Without Maps]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Graham Greene </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Voices_of_Marrakesh.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Voices of Marrakesh ]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Elias Canetti </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''More Travels in Africa'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels in the Interior of Africa]]'' ( ) by Mungo Park </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Source of the Nile]]'' ( ) by Richard Burton </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Naturalist on the River Amazons]]'' ( ) by Henry Walter Bates </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels in the Congo]]'' ( ) by Andre Gide </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |North of South]]'' ( ) by Shiva Naipaul </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |African Laughter]]'' ( ) by Doris Lessing </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Travels in the Americas'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Travels_in_Alaska.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Travels in Alaska|Travels in Alaska]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by John Muir </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Travels_With_Charley.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Travels With Charley|Travels With Charley: In Search of America]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by John Steinbeck </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Kon-Tiki.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Kon-Tiki|Kon-Tiki]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Thor Keyerdahl </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:in_Patagonia.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:In Patagonia|In Patagonia]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Bruce Chatwin </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:an_African_in_Greenland.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |An African in Greenland]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Tete-Michel Kpomassie </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''More Travels in the Americas'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition]]'' ( ) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America]]'' ( ) by Alexander von Humboldt </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil]]'' ( ) by Jean de Lery </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Journals]]'' ( ) of Lewis and Clark </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Oregon Trail]]'' ( ) by Francis Parkman </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |American Notes for General Circulation]]'' ( ) by Charles Dickens </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]]'' ( ) by Henry David Thoreau </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Roughing It]]'' ( ) by Mark Twain </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Two Years in the French West Indies]]'' ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Kabloona]]'' ( ) by Gontran de Poncins </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Here is New York]]'' ( ) by E.B. White </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Lawless Roads]]'' ( ) by Graham Greene </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |I See by My Outfit]]'' ( ) by Peter S. Beagle </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Coming in to the Country]]'' ( ) by John McPhee </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Into the Wild]]'' ( ) by Bill Bryson </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Turn in the South]]'' ( ) by V.S. Naipaul </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Old Patagonian Express]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Travel Anthologies'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:a_Book_of_Traveller's_Tales.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''A Book of Traveler's Tales''<br/> edited by Eric Newby </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Colonial_American_Travel_Narratives.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Colonial American Travel Narratives''<br/> </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Travels_in_the_Reich.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany''<br/></small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Unsuitable_for_Ladies.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travelers''<br/></small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Americans_in_Paris.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Americans in Paris''<br/></small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''More Travel Anthologies'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''Travel Writing 1700-1830'' </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing'' </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing'' </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''

Revision as of 07:51, 10 July 2012

Biographies

Essays

Classic Essays

Essays in Idleness
( )
by Yoshida Kenko

The Anatomy of Melancholy
( )
by Robert Burton

The Complete Essays
( )
by Mark Twain

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
( )
by Charles Baudelaire

In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays
( )
by G.K. Chesterton
Further Classic Essays
Essays ( ) by Francis Bacon
The Complete Essays ( ) by Michel de Montaigne
Selected Essays ( ) by Samuel Johnson
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays ( ) by Charles Lamb
Walden ( ) by Henry David Thoreau
The Essential Writings ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose ( ) by Oscar Wilde
Essays ( ) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)

A Collection of Essays
( )
by George Orwell

Geography of the Imagination
( )
by Guy Davenport

We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live
( )
by Joan Didion

The Portable Dorothy Parker
( )
by Dorothy Parker

An Elemental Thing
( )
by Eliot Weinberger
Further Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)
Early and Later Essays ( ) by W.B. Yeats
Selected Essays ( ) by Virginia Woolf
Selected Essays ( ) by T.S. Eliot
Selected Essays ( ) by D.H. Lawrence
Kokoro ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn
Essays ( ) by E.B. White
Against Interpretation and Other Essays ( ) by Susan Sontag
Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry ( ) by John Simon
Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience ( ) by Aldous Huxley
Mystery and Manners ( ) by Flannery O'Connor
Literary Essays ( ) by Ezra Pound
In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays ( ) by Anais Nin
Portraits and Observations: The Essays ( ) by Truman Capote
The Best of Myles ( ) by Flann O'Brien
A Jacques Barzun Reader ( ) by Jacques Barzun
Reflections on Exile ( ) by Edward W. Said
The Vintage Mencken ( ) by H.L. Mencken
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism ( ) by John Updike
Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings ( ) by Angela Carter
Fame & Folly: Essays ( ) by Cynthia Ozick
The Donald Richie Reader ( ) by Donald Richie
Dreamer of Dreams ( ) by John Simon
On Histories and Stories ( ) by A.S. Byatt
Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings ( ) by John Fowles
Finding a Form ( ) by William H. Gass
An Elemental Thing ( ) by Eliot Weinberger
Modern and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)

Selected Non-Fictions
( )
by Jorge Luis Borges


( )
by Roland Barthes

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
( )
by Italo Calvino

Less Than One: Selected Essays
( )
by Joseph Brodsky

Campo Santo
( )
by W.G. Sebald
Further Modern and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)
Visions of Excess ( ) by Georges Bataille
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces ( ) by Georges Perec
Leters, Numbers, Forms: Essays ( ) by Raymond Queneau
Selected Essays ( ) by Zhou Zuoren
Selected Bilingual Essays ( ) by Lin Yutang
Illuminations: Essays ( ) by Walter Benjamin
The Selected Prose ( ) by Fernando Pessoa
Myself With Others: Essays ( ) by Carlos Fuentes
The Labyrinth of Solitude ( ) by Octavio Paz
The Spirit of Prague ( ) by Ivan Klima
Encounter: Essays ( ) by Milan Kundera
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays ( ) by Umberto Eco
Anathemas and Admiraitions ( ) by E.M. Cioran
Passing By: Selected Essays ( ) by Jerzy Kosinski
Other People's Trades ( ) by Primo Levi
Nobody's Home ( ) by Dubravka Ugresic
Recommendation images

Philosophy

Travel Literature

General Travels

The Travels
( )
by Ibn Battutah

The Journals
( )
of Captain James Cook

Collected Travel Writing
( )
by Evelyn Waugh

Travels With Herodotus
( )
by Ryszard Kapuscinsk

The Way of the World
( )
by Nicolas Bouvier
More General Travels
From the Meadows of Gold ( ) by Mas'udi
Voyages and Discoveries ( ) by Richard Hakluyt
South: The Endurance Expedition ( ) by Ernest Shackleton
The Last Grain Race ( ) by Eric Newby
Pecked to Death by Ducks ( ) by Tim Cahill
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It ( ) by Geoff Dyer
Travels in Europe

Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness
( )
by Ibn Fadlan

The Innocents Abroad
( )
by Mark Twain

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
( )
by Rebecca West

A Time of Gifts
( )
by Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Rings of Saturn
( )
by W.G. Sebald
More Travels in Europe
Guide to Greece (2nd century) by Pausanias
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland ( ) by Samuel Johnson
A Sentimental Journey ( ) by Laurence Sterne
Letters from England ( ) by Voltaire
Italian Journey: 1786:1788 (1788) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Travel Pictures ( ) by Heinrich Heine
Letters from Russia ( ) by Adolphe de Custine
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions ( ) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sakhalin Island ( ) by Anton Chekhov
D.H. Lawrence and Italy ( ) by D.H. Lawrence
Mani: Travels in the Souther Peloponnese ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Silent Traveler in London ( ) by Chiang Lee
Stones of Aran: Labyrinth ( ) by Tim Robinson
The Colossus of Maroussi ( ) by Henry Miller
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere ( ) by Jan Morris
In Siberia ( ) by Colin Thubron
Fado ( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk
Travels in Asia

The Travels
(13th century)
of Marco Polo

Narrow Road to the Deep North
(1689)
by Matsuo Basho

Seven Years in Tibet
(1951)
by Heinrich Harrer

Arabian Sands
(1959)
by Wilfred Thesiger

The Snow Leopard
1978)
by Peter Matthiessen
More Travels in Asia
The Travels ( ) of Sir John Mandeville
An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels ( ) by Evliya Celebi
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan ( ) by Isabella L. Bird
The Malay Archipelago ( ) by Alfred Russel Wallace
A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina ( ) by Richard Burton
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn
The Southern Gates of Arabia ( ) by Freya Stark
A Time to Keep Silence ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Barbarian in Asia ( ) by Henri Michaux
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China ( ) by David Kidd
Hindoo Holiday ( ) by J.R. Ackerley
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush ( ) by Eric Newby
The Inland Sea ( ) by Donald Richie
The Lost Heart of Asia ( ) by Colin Thubron
Riding the Iron Rooster ( ) by Paul Theroux
The Great Railway Bazaar ( ) by Paul Theroux
City of Djinns ( ) by William Dalrymple
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963) by Paul Bowles
Travels in Africa

Travels in West Africa
( )
by Mary Kingsley

Out of Africa
( )
by Isak Dinesen

Green Hills of Africa
( )
by Ernest Hemingway

Journey Without Maps
( )
by Graham Greene

The Voices of Marrakesh
( )
by Elias Canetti
More Travels in Africa
Travels in the Interior of Africa ( ) by Mungo Park
Source of the Nile ( ) by Richard Burton
The Naturalist on the River Amazons ( ) by Henry Walter Bates
Travels in the Congo ( ) by Andre Gide
North of South ( ) by Shiva Naipaul
African Laughter ( ) by Doris Lessing
( ) by
Travels in the Americas

Travels in Alaska
( )
by John Muir

Travels With Charley: In Search of America
( )
by John Steinbeck

Kon-Tiki
( )
by Thor Keyerdahl

In Patagonia
( )
by Bruce Chatwin

An African in Greenland
( )
by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
More Travels in the Americas
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition ( ) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America ( ) by Alexander von Humboldt
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil ( ) by Jean de Lery
The Journals ( ) of Lewis and Clark
The Oregon Trail ( ) by Francis Parkman
American Notes for General Circulation ( ) by Charles Dickens
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ( ) by Henry David Thoreau
Roughing It ( ) by Mark Twain
Two Years in the French West Indies ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn
Kabloona ( ) by Gontran de Poncins
Here is New York ( ) by E.B. White
The Lawless Roads ( ) by Graham Greene
I See by My Outfit ( ) by Peter S. Beagle
Coming in to the Country ( ) by John McPhee
Into the Wild ( ) by Bill Bryson
A Turn in the South ( ) by V.S. Naipaul
The Old Patagonian Express ( ) by Paul Theroux
Travel Anthologies

A Book of Traveler's Tales
edited by Eric Newby

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