20 Most inspiring travel books
The Telegraph has chosen the 20 most inspiring travel books of all time.
1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
2. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
3. Naples ’44 by Norman Lewis
4. Coasting by Jonathan Raban
5. Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
6. Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
7. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
8. The Beach by Alex Garland
9. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
10. The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
11. Venice by Jan Morris
12. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
13. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
14. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
15. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
16. Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
17. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
18. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
19. The Journals of Captain Cook
20. Among the Russians by Colin Thubron
This list is madness. God of Small Things isn’t a travel book. It doesn’t sell India to me. Fear and Loathing – that’s a book about drugs.