1956 Truman Capote book named to list of great travel books

I ran across an awesome “best of” book list yesterday that I think many of you would be interested in seeing. The Web site, Flavorwire.com, which covers cultural events, art, books, music and other pop culture topics, recently released a cool book list called “35 Great Travel Books That Will Take You Around the World Without a Plane Ticket.” I took the list and put it in alphabetical order, and if you’re interested in seeing the original list and reading more about it, visit http://flavorwire.com/415807/35-great-travel-books-that-will-take-you-around-the-world-without-a-plane-ticket/view-all/.

Without further ado, here’s the list:

35 GREAT TRAVEL BOOKS THAT WILL TAKE YOU AROUND THE WORLD WITHOUT A PLANE TICKET:

- “An African in Greenland” by Tete-Michel Kpomassie (1981)

- “An Area of Darkness” by V.S. Naipaul (1964)

- “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning” by Laurie Lee (1969)

- “As They Were” by M.F.K. Fisher (1982)

- “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia” by Rebecca West (1941)

- “China As I See It” by Pearl S. Buck (1970)

- “Coasting” by Jonathan Raban (1987)

- “The Cruise of the Northern Light: Explorations and Hunting in the Alaska and Siberian Arctic” by Courtney Letts (1928)

- “The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat” by Ryszard Kapuscinski (1978)

- “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson (1971)

- “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” by Rebecca Solnit (2005)

- “Great Plains” by Ian Frazier (1989)

- “The Great Railway Bazaar” by Paul Theroux (1975)

- “Homage to Catalonia” by George Orwell (1938)

- “In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale” by Amitav Ghosh (1988)

- “The Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain (1869)

- “In Patagonia” by Bruce Chatwin (1977)

- “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer (1997)

- “Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850” by Florence Nightingale (1987)

- “The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon” by David Grann (2009)

- “The Lycian Shore” by Freya Stark (1956)

- “The Muses Are Heard” by Truman Capote (1956)

- “Notes from a Small Island: An Affectionate Portrait of Britain” by Bill Bryson (1995)

- “Original Letters from India” by Eliza Jay, annotated by E.M. Forster (1925)

- “The Pine Barrens” by John McPhee (1968)

- “Sea and Sardinia” by D.H. Lawrence (1921)

- “Skating to Antarctica” by Jenny Diski (1997)

- “Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World” by Paul Bowles (1963)

- “A Time of Gifts” by Patrick Leigh Fermor (1977)

- “Tracks” by Robyn Davidson (1979)

- “Travels With Charley: In Search of America” by John Steinbeck (1962)

- “Travels With Myself and Another: Five Journeys from Hell” by Martha Gellhorn (1978)

- “Venice” by Jan Morris (1960)

- “The Way of the World” by Nicolas Bouvier (1963)

- “West With the Night” by Beryl Markham (1942)

In the end, how many of these travel books have you read? Which did you like or dislike and why? Which was your favorite? Let us know in the comments section below.