The 20 best travel books of all time

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