If you like Bill Bryson why not try…
These intrepid travellers not only take you on location they are
talented writers, historians and philosophers who can travel back
in time to unravel the past secrets of their destinations.
Contemporary
- Booth, Alan (Japan)
- Cahill, Jim
- Chatwin, Bruce (South
America)
- Dalrymple,
William (India, Byzantium)
- Danziger,
Nick (Asia, Iran, Britain)
- Dodwell,
Christina
- Eames, Andrew
- Fermor, Patrick (Europe,
walking)
- Frater,
Alexander (Asia)
- Hansen, Eric (Motoring
with Mohammed reads like a thriller)
- Harding,
Georgina
- Hodson,
Peregrine (Japan, Afghanistan)
- Kaplan,
Robert D
- Lay, Graeme (The
Pacific)
- Lewis, Norman (widely
travelled)
- Moorhouse,
Geoffrey (Central Asia, Russia, and recently a compelling
history of Sydney)
- Morris, Jan (A
former Times correspondent)
- Murphy, Dervla (An
intrepid, shoestring traveller)
- Naipaul, V S (India)
- Newby, Eric (Much
travelled since his Short walk in the Hindu Kush)
- Palin, Michael
- Paxman, Jeremy (Central
America)
- Raban, Jonathan
- Selby, Bettina (Many
a cycling odyssey to her name)
- Severin, Tim (Recreated
epic voyages)
- Terzani,
Tiziano (Former Soviet)
- Theroux, Paul (Entertainingly
subjective)
- Thesiger,
Wilfrid (Arabia)
- Thubron, Colin (China,
Russia)
For an interesting new series of travel writing search under the
title: Lonely
planet journeys
Historical
- Barker, Mary (Station
life in New Zealand)
- Bird, Isabella (19th
century adventuress and one of the first female members of the
Royal Geographical Society)
- Bradford,
Ernie (Sea voyaging)
- Brenan, Gerald (Spain)
- Brooke, Charles (Borneo)
- Burnaby, Fred (On
horseback through Asia Minor)
- Burton,
Sir Richard (The first Englishman to explore Somalia in
1850s)
- Byron, Robert (Driven
in search of Islamic and Byzantine architecture)
- Chichester,
Sir Francis (The sea)
- Curzon, George (Viceroy
of India in the 1890s, made long hazardous trips in Central Asia)
- Duff Gordon,
Lady Lucie (Lived amongst the ruins of Luxor mid 19th century)
- Eden, Emily (A
ruling class view of India)
- Edwards,
Amelia (A novelist, poet and Egyptologist)
- Fane, Isabella (India
during the Raj)
- Fermor, Patrick (Walked
from Holland to Constantinople in the 1930s)
- Fiennes, Celia (Travelled
the English counties at end of 17th century)
- Golding,
William (An Egyptian Journal)
- Greene, Graham (Lawless
roads inspired his Power and the glory)
- Hakluyt,
Richard (He knew many of the 16th century's great English
navigators)
- Hillaby, John
- Jones, Tristan (The
sea)
- Kempe, Margery (An
eccentric 15th century pilgrim who dictated her autobiography to
monks)
- Kingsley,
Mary (West Africa)
- Maclean,
Fitzroy (Central Asia, Caucasus, Russia, Scotland)
- Montagu,
Lady Mary Wortley (As an ambassador's wife in 18th century
Constantinople she chronicled her experiences in some marvellous
letters home)
- Naipaul, Shiva (Social
conditions in Africa in 1970s)
- Stark, Freya (A
highly regarded Arabist and colourful chronicler of her discoveries)
- Stevenson,
Robert Louis (Early reflections of a European in Samoa)
- Trollope,
Anthony (Travelled to NZ and Australia in 1873)
- Trollope,
Frances (Anthony's mother observes domestic manners of Americans
on her 19th century travels)
- Van
der Post, Laurens (Africa)
- Young, Gavin (The
sea)
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