 | Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler (Travelers' Tales) by Lavinia Spalding
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $9.32 An excellent guide to travel-journaling as spiritual practice/ self discovery. Fun and lucid.
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 | The Snow Leopard (Penguin Classics) by Peter Matthiessen
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $6.99 Maybe THE great exemplar of what has become a genre: travel is geographic AND spirtual.
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 | The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise by Ian Baker
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.33 One of the finest travel-as-enlightenment books ever written, I think. Beautiful and jaw-dropping. In the vein of Mathiessen.
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 | Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.00 Gorgeous writing by a perennial foreigner.
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 | The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.57 Crystal-clear, balmy writing by one cantankerous traveler. Funny.
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 | Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer (Travelers' Tales Guides) by Rolf Potts
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.20 A very entertaining and exciting book about travelling and living to write about it.
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 | The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan
Buy new: $29.25 / Used from: $28.21 A great journalist writes about his travels through the least-hospitable, most anarchic places on Earth, which look rather like our future. Now a bit out of date, but eye-opening.
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