# The Best Travel Books

> Answers the query: “best travel books”

_Last updated: 2026-07-25_

## The list

1. **Eat Pray Love Epz Film Export [Jan 01, 2013] Gilbert Elizabeth**, Elizabeth Gilbert (ISBN 9781408844489)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/eat-pray-love-epz-film-export-jan-01-2013-gilbert-elizabeth
2. **World Travel**, Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever (ISBN 9781526630230)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/world-travel
3. **Ahmedabad**, Amrita Shah (ISBN 9789384898014)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/ahmedabad
4. **Walking to Listen**, Andrew Forsthoefel (ISBN 9781632867018)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/walking-to-listen
5. **In Search of Mary**, Bee Rowlatt (ISBN 9781846883781)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/in-search-of-mary
6. **The Nine Lives of Pakistan**, Declan Walsh (ISBN 9781408889480)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-nine-lives-of-pakistan-9480
7. **Flaneur**, Edmund White (ISBN 9781408864760)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/flaneur
8. **Flaneur**, Edmund White (ISBN 9781632863775)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/flaneur-3775
9. **A Death in Brazil**, Peter Robb, Peter Robb, Peter. Robb (ISBN 9780747573166)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/a-death-in-brazil
10. **Kaleidoscope City**, Piers Moore Ede (ISBN 9781408872857)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/kaleidoscope-city
11. **By thumb, hoof and wheel**, Prabhu Ghate (ISBN 9789384898908)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/by-thumb-hoof-and-wheel
12. **Shaam-e-Awadh**, Vipul Varshneya (ISBN 9789386432445)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/shaam-e-awadh
13. **Wildland**, Evan Osnos (ISBN 9781526635518)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/wildland-5518
14. **Secondhand**, Adam Minter (ISBN 9781635570113)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/secondhand
15. **The Emperor Far Away**, David Eimer (ISBN 9781408864289)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-emperor-far-away
16. **Sea legs**, Guy Grieve (ISBN 9781408843307)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/sea-legs
17. **Cypress Tree**, Kamin Mohammadi (ISBN 9781408822333)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/cypress-tree
18. **Fish Ladder**, Katharine Norbury (ISBN 9781408859261)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/fish-ladder
19. **Travels with a Mexican Circus**, Katie Hickman (ISBN 9781408853610)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/travels-with-a-mexican-circus
20. **The road to Sleeping Dragon**, Michael J. Meyer (ISBN 9781632869357)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-road-to-sleeping-dragon
21. **Cobra in the Bath**, Miles Morland (ISBN 9781408863688)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/cobra-in-the-bath
22. **The man who broke out of the bank ...and went for a walk in France**, Miles Morland (ISBN 9781408872987)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-man-who-broke-out-of-the-bank-and-went-for-a-walk-in-france
23. **Nabokov in America**, Robert Roper (ISBN 9780802743633)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/nabokov-in-america
24. **Come Back to Afghanistan**, Said Hyder Akbar, Susan Burton (ISBN 9780747583660)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/come-back-to-afghanistan
25. **Island Summers**, Tilly Culme-Seymour (ISBN 9781408843314)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/island-summers
26. **I Belong Here**, Anita Sethi (ISBN 9781472983954)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/i-belong-here
27. **Interrail**, Alessandro Gallenzi (ISBN 9781846882449)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/interrail
28. **I Went to Russia**, Liam Ó Flaithearta (ISBN 9781448205905)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/i-went-to-russia
29. **Threshold**, Rob Doyle (ISBN 9781526607089)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/threshold
30. **Threshold**, Rob Doyle (ISBN 9781526607027)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/threshold-7027

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Source: AltBook, https://www.altbook.net/collections/best-travel-books