Travel Writing Bucket List

Chatwin in the Australian outback on Aboriginal dreaming tracks and why humans walk.

Chatwin follows a piece of brontosaurus skin to the end of South America; the modern travel book.

Bill Bryson attempts the Appalachian Trail with an unfit friend and a fear of bears.

Bryson's farewell tour of Britain before moving back to America; the Britons' favourite book about themselves.

Robert Byron through Persia and Afghanistan in 1933 in search of the origins of Islamic architecture.

Steinbeck drives around America with a poodle in 1960 to see what it has become.

Peter Matthiessen walks to Dolpo with a zoologist looking for a cat he never sees.

Kapuscinski's first assignments abroad with the first historian in his pocket.

Fragments about travel, anatomy and a Chopin's heart smuggled to Warsaw; Tokarczuk's Booker International.

Kapuscinski's forty years reporting Africa, from Ghana's independence to Rwanda.