Steve Keenan of the Times Online has put together a list of what he considers to be the 20 best travel books of the past century.
Topping the list is Wilfrid Thesiger’s “The Danakil Diary – Journeys through Abyssinia, 1930 -4″, in which the explorer and historian documents his 1930s trip to the country now known as Ethiopia.
Other books that made it onto the list include Paul Theroux’s “The Great Railway Bazaar”, Laurie Lee’s “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning”, Bill Bryson’s “Notes From a Small Island” and Colin Thubron’s “The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom”.
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