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The 20 best travel books of all time

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• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

• As I Walked Out One Mid-summer Morning by Laurie Lee

• Naples\' 44 by Norman Lewis

• Coasting by Jonathan Raban

• Travels with Charley:In search of America by John Steinbeck

• Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson

• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

• The Beach by Alex Garlend

• The Great Railway Bazar by Paul Therous

• The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron

• Venice by Jan Morris

• In Patagonia by Bruce Chat

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

• Wild coast by John Gimlette

• A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby

• Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

• Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

• The Journals of Captain Cook

• Among the Russians by Colin Thubron