Biographical Page

TRAVEL WRITERS

Bill Bryson (1951 -)

Notes from a small island (1995)
Notes from a big country (1999)
Down under (2000)

William Dalrymple (1965 -)

City Of Djinns: A Year In Delhi (1993)
From The Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow Of Byzantium (1997)
Sacred India (1999)
In Xanadu: A Quest (2000)
The Age Of Kali: Indian Travels And Encounters (2000)

Robyn Davidson (1950 -)

Tracks (1995)
Desert Places, pastoral nomads in India (the Rabari)(1997)

Josie Dew (circa 1968 -)

The Wind in My Wheels: Travel Tales from the Saddle (1992)
Travels in a Strange State: Cycling Across the U.S.A. (1994)
A Ride in the Neon Sun: A Gaijin in Japan (1999)
The Sun in My Eyes: Two-Wheeling East (2001)
Slow Coast Home: 5,000 Miles Around the Shores of England and Wales (2003)
Saddled at Sea: A 15,000-mile journey to New Zealand by Russian Freighter (2006)
A Long Cloud Ride: A Cycling Adventure Across New Zealand (2007)

Robert D. Kaplan (1952 -)

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21^st Century (1996)
Mediterranean Winter: A Journey through History (2005)

Jon Krakauer (1954 -)

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men And Mountains (1990)
Iceland: Land of the Sagas (1990)
Into The Wild (1996)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Mt Everest Disaster (1997)

Nick Middleton

The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia (1992)
Kalashnikovs And Zombie Cucumbers: Travels In Mozambique (1994)
Travels as a Brussels Scout (1997)
Ice Tea And Elvis: A Saunter Through The Southern States (1999)
Going to Extremes: Mud, Sweat and Frozen Tears (2001)

Eric Newby (1919 -)

Slowly down the Ganges (1966)
A short walk in the Hindu Kush (1974)
The big red train ride (1978)
On the shores of the Mediterranean (1984)
A book of travellers tales (1985)
What the traveller saw (1993)
A small place in Italy (1994)
A merry dance around the world: the best of Eric Newby (1995)
Departures and arrivals (1999)

Cees Nooteboom (1933 -)

Roads To Santiago (1997)

Jonathan Raban (1942 -)

Arabia through the looking glass (1979)
Coasting (1986)
Hunting Mister Heartbreak (1990)
Bad land: an American romance (1996)
Passage to Juneau: a sea and its meanings (1999)

Paul Theroux (1941 -)

The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia (1975)
The Old Patagonian Express: by train through the Americas (1979)
The kingdom by the sea: a journey around Great Britain (1983)
Sunrise with seamonsters: travels and discoveries 1964-1984 (1985)
Riding the iron rooster: by train through China (1988)
The happy isles of Oceania: paddling the Pacific (1992)
The Pillars of Hercules: a grand tour of the Mediterranean (1995)
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (2002)

Colin Thubron (1939 -)

Jerusalem (1969)
Journey into Cyprus (1975)
Among the Russians (1983)
Behind the wall: a journey through China (1987)
The lost heart of Asia (1994)
In Siberia (1999)
Shadow of the Silk Road (2006)
Books for armchair travellers