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BEST TRAVEL BOOKS

Everyman's Library

READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

Hardbound with illuminating introductions, expert translations and beautiful, easy-to-read type, these Everyman Library editions include many Longitude favorites.

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The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo | Colin Thubron

EXPLORATION
2008
HARD COVER
421 PAGES

The intrepid Colin Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) provides the appreciate introduction to this new Everyman's Library edition, highlighting the places that still bring a start of recognition to the modern traveler. It's a rich portrait of China at the height of Mongol rule that strains credulity. (ASA72, $26.00)

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

by Naguib Mahfouz | William Maynard Hutchins | Olive Kenney | Lorne Kenney | Angele Botras Samaan | Edward W. Said

LITERATURE
2001
HARD COVER
1313 PAGES

Of his thirty-some novels, stories, essays and film scripts, this is Mahfouz's most enduring and loved series, famously set in the hurly-burly of the streets, alleyways and overlapping balconies of Cairo's ancient Gamaliya quarter. A handsome Everyman's Library edition. (EGY84, $35.00)

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

LITERATURE
1995
HARD COVER
533 PAGES
FAVORITE

Recently crowned Best of the Booker, Rushdie's greatest novel is a madcap, comic take on the birth of modern India in all its splendid and unexpected manifestations. (IDA589, $25.00)

Dispatches

by Michael Herr

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2009
HARD COVER
296 PAGES

Robert Stone introduces this Everyman's Library edition of Herr's impressionistic, troubling memoir of his time as a war correspondent in Vietnam, called by the New York Times the best book yet to be written about the war. (VNM03, $24.00)

The Skeptical Romancer, Selected Travel Writing

by W. Somerset Maugham

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2012
PAPER
256 PAGES

Pico Iyer introduces this choice edition of Somerset Maugham's razor-sharp travel writing, set in Spain, China, Burma and Southeast Asia, including a long excerpt from Gentleman in the Parlour, a vivid account of travels from Rangoon to Haiphong by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and pony. Also included is The Land of the Blessed Virgin (Spain), On a Chinese Screen and The Partial View (diverse places). (TVL484, $15.00)

Mr Sampath -- The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma

by R. K. Narayan

LITERATURE
2006
HARD COVER
616 PAGES

An Everyman's Library edition of three novels written after India's independence -- including the comic tale, Narayan's funniest, of the printer of Malgudi, whose glamorous new job as screenwriter goes to his head. (IDA336, $25.00)

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

by James Boswell | Samuel Johnson

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2002
HARD COVER

Dual -- and very different -- travelogues by Johnson and Bowell, written during an 83-day journey they took together around the coast of Scotland in 1773. (SCT134, $23.00)

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

LITERATURE
1995
HARD COVER
304 PAGES
FAMILY

Kipling's classic novel about an orphaned boy traveling the Grand Trunk Road with a Tibetan Lama, suffused with a sense of place and keen insights into colonial India. (IDA52, $21.00)