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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Classic Essays'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''<h3>Classic Essays</h3>'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Essays_in_Idleness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Essays in Idleness''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Yoshida Kenko </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Essays_in_Idleness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''Essays in Idleness''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Yoshida Kenko </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''Essays'' ( ) by Robert Louis Stevenson </small>
|colspan=5|<small>''Essays'' ( ) by Robert Louis Stevenson </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''<h3>Modern Essays (English Language)</h3>'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:a_Collection_of_Essays.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''A Collection of Essays''<br/> ( ) <br/>by George Orwell </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:a_Collection_of_Essays.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''A Collection of Essays''<br/> ( ) <br/>by George Orwell </small>
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:an_Elemental_Thing.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''An Elemental Thing''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Eliot Weinberger </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:an_Elemental_Thing.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''An Elemental Thing''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Eliot Weinberger </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Modern Essays (English Language)'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''Early and Later Essays'' ( ) by W.B. Yeats </small>
|colspan=5|<small>''Early and Later Essays'' ( ) by W.B. Yeats </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''An Elemental Thing'' ( ) by Eliot Weinberger </small>
|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)'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''<h3>Modern Essays (non-English Language)</h3>'''
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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: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:a_Barthes_Reader.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''A Barthes Reader''<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: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: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>
|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)'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Further Modern Essays (non-English Language)'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''Visions of Excess'' ( ) by Georges Bataille </small>
|colspan=5|<small>''Visions of Excess'' ( ) by Georges Bataille </small>
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|colspan=5|<h2>Travel Literature</h2>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''General Travels'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''<h3>General Travels</h3>'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Travels_of_Ibn_Battuta.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Ibn Battutah|The Travels]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Ibn Battutah  </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Travels_of_Ibn_Battuta.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Ibn Battutah|The Travels]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Ibn Battutah  </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It]]'' ( ) by Geoff Dyer </small>
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It]]'' ( ) by Geoff Dyer </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Travels in Europe'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''<h3>Travels in Europe</h3>'''
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Ibn_Fadlan_and_the_Land_of_Darkness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Ibn Fadlan </small>
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Ibn_Fadlan_and_the_Land_of_Darkness.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Ibn Fadlan </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fado]]'' ( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk </small>
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fado]]'' ( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Travels in Asia'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''<h3>Travels in Asia</h3>'''
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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: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>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul Bowles|Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue]]'' (1963) by Paul Bowles </small>
|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'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''<h3>Travels in Africa</h3>'''
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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:Travels_in_West_Africa.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels in West Africa]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Mary Kingsley </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |African Laughter]]'' ( ) by Doris Lessing </small>
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |African Laughter]]'' ( ) by Doris Lessing </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' ( ) by </small>
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''<h3>Travels in the Americas</h3>'''
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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_in_Alaska.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Travels in Alaska|Travels in Alaska]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by John Muir </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Old Patagonian Express]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small>
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Old Patagonian Express]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Travel Anthologies'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''<h3>Travel Anthologies</h3>'''
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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:a_Book_of_Traveller's_Tales.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''A Book of Traveler's Tales''<br/> edited by Eric Newby </small>

Revision as of 08:04, 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 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 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 Essays (non-English Language)


Selected Non-Fictions
( )
by Jorge Luis Borges

A Barthes Reader
( )
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 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
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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

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

Colonial American Travel Narratives

Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany

Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travelers

Americans in Paris
More Travel Anthologies
Travel Writing 1700-1830
Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
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