How many of these 'Picador Travel Classics' have you read?

On Tuesday, I published a post about the classic adventure book, “The Worst Journey in the World” by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. While researching this column, I learned that this book was recently reprinted in 1994 as part of a series of books called the Picador Travel Classics.

I have to admit that I’d never heard of this series of books and was interested to learn that it consisted of 17 hardcover books published by UK publishing house Picador between 1994 and 1997.

Books in the series included the following titles, in order of their release:

- The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

- The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron

- I Came, I Saw by Norman Lewis

- Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O’Hanlon

- Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

- The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

- An Area of Darkness by V.S. Naipaul

- Among the Russians by Colin Thubron

- Eothen by Alexander Kinglake

- A Motor-Flight Through France by Edith Wharton

- Coasting by Jonathan Raban

- Slow Boats to China by Gavin Young

- Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha

- The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul

- The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella Lucy Bird

- A Visit to Don Otavio by Sybille Bedford

- A Short Walk in Hindu Kush by Eric Newby

In the end, how many of these books have you had the chance to read? What did you think about them? Which did you like or dislike and why? Which would you recommend and why? Let us know in the comments section below.