Travel
The best books about travel: around the world in 10 great reads
Whether you’re heading abroad or staying at home this summer, prepare to be transported by our writers’ favourite books about travel
Clockwise from top left: Elizabeth Bowen in Rome, Pete McCarthy, Venice, Rory Stewart in Afghanistan, Robert Redford as Bill Bryson with Nick Nolte in the film version of A Walk in the Woods, and the movie based on The Kon-Tiki Expedition
As the summer holiday season takes off in earnest, we asked 10 writers and critics to name their favourite books about travel. The brief was to choose something “more The Great Railway Bazaar than The Rough Guide to Thailand” and the resulting choices will take you from the Afghan desert via Venice, Rome, small-town America and India (among other locations) to the snug of an Irish bar. Bon voyage.
“It is midwinter: there are three metres of snow on the high passes, there are wolves and this is a war. You will die, I can guarantee,” a member of Afghanistan’s security services tells Rory Stewart just a few pages into this book. “Do you want to die?”
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